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Former IDF lieutenant-colonel and current director of the American Jewish Committee Jerusalem office, Avital Leibovich, was bombarded by some dozen pro-Palestinian activists while giving a speech about social media on Tuesday afternoon in Washington, DC. Leibovich, who formerly served as…
read moreAnti-Israel activists planned to shut down Jewish Israeli-owned store on Sunday – but they didn’t expect this reaction. Things didn’t go quite as planned for a group of anti-Israel activists, who hoped to force the closure of an Israeli-owned shop…
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American college students are “frighteningly stupid” when it comes to understanding Israel and global terrorism, a documentary filmmaker toldThe Algemeiner on Tuesday. Ami Horowitz was referring to what emerged in his latest clip, videotaped at Portland State University, where the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and…
read moreA talk by an Israeli diplomat at the University of California, Davis on Monday was disrupted by pro-Palestinian protesters, The Algemeinerhas learned. After unfurling a large banner across the room, the demonstrators chanted “Long live the intifada,” and other slogans, then exited…
read moreIn an appearance on Tuesday’s “Fox & Friends,” Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz explained how things have gotten difficult on some college campuses for those wanting to espoise various forms of conservative speech. Dershowitz explained how things have changed over the…
read moreIn his second conversation, Summers discusses political correctness on campus. Click “Show more” to view all chapters. Chapter 1 (00:15 – 26:46): Political Correctness on Campus Chapter 2 (26:46 – 36:35): Universities and the Pursuit of Knowledge Chapter 3 (36:35…
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Alex Joffe Ph.D., editor of the BDS Monitor for the group, Scholars for Peace in the Middle East. Joffe is also a Shillman-Ginsburg Fellow at the Middle East Forum. The boycott, divestment and sanction (BDS) movement is an increasingly powerful…
read moreMayor of London Boris Johnson told reporters in Tel Aviv on Monday that a boycott of Israel in Britain would be “completely crazy,” the UK Jewish News reported. This comes mere weeks after 343 British academic professionals took out an advertisement in the Guardian calling for an…
read moreVicious implicitly antisemitic slogans were chanted at a protest at Hunter College in Manhattan on Thursday afternoon after organizers on Facebook called for participants to oppose the school’s “Zionist administration.” But despite footage of the rally circulating online, a spokesperson for Hunter…
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