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Lahav Harkov is the Senior Political Correspondant for the Jewish Insider, covering Israel’s domestic and international politics. She was previously a Contributing Editor at The Jerusalem Post and the Post’s Diplomatic Correspondent covering the Knesset for over eight years. …
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Tony Badran points out that Iran helped coordinate the brutal attack on Israel as well as reinforced the Hezbollah threat to Israel’s northern border with Lebanon. Tony Badran is a research fellow at FDD, where he focuses on Lebanon, Hezbollah, Syria,…
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The shock of the monstrous Hamas attack on Israel continues to reverberate as the death tolls continue to rise as well as the casualties. For context and analysis please join us for a briefing with Brigadier General (Res.) Yossi Kuperwasser.…
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Hanin Ghaddar is the Friedmann Senior Fellow in The Washington Institute’s Linda and Tony Rubin Program on Arab Politics, where she focuses on Shia politics throughout the Levant. The longtime managing editor of Lebanon’s NOW news website, Ghaddar shed light…
read moreIntroduction As the school year approaches pro-BDS faculty and far left foundations opposed to the IHRA definition of antisemitism have organized an ersatz ‘institute’ and multiple conferences to denounce this widely accepted standard. Coupled with academic boycotts adopted by anthropology…
read moreIntroduction A verbal assault by BDS supporters on a Jewish member of Congress prompted progressive Rep. Pramila Jayapal to agree with the crowd that “Israel is a racist state.” This set off a cascading series of events culminating in a…
read moreIntroduction The Biden Administration’s new US antisemitism strategy has helped a growing effort to undermine the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition, including from the United Nations and the US Congress. The strategy’s positive citation of the rival Nexus definition,…
read moreIntroduction May saw the culmination of debate over the IHRA antisemitism definition. Left wing groups demanded its exclusion from the Biden administration’s national antisemitism policy while center and right groups demanded its inclusion. The debate, which has stretched from campuses…
read moreIntroduction April saw the BDS movement launch multiple assaults on Israel and its supporters, via ‘human rights’ organizations and the United Nations, students and faculty on campus, and DEI bureaucracies. These many fronts are designed to manufacture a narrative and…
read moreIntroduction March was characterized by repeated accusations from the BDS movement that it was being ‘silenced.’ These came as campuses were subjected to ‘Israel Apartheid Week’ and an onslaught of anti-Israel programming. The incongruence of these claims point to the…
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