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My four years on a high school debate team in Broward County, Florida, taught me to challenge ideas, question assumptions, and think outside the box. It also helped me overcome a terrible childhood stutter. And I wasn’t half-bad: I placed…
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For the first time in 30 years, Human Rights Watch has a new executive director, Tirana Hassan. Within days of taking office, she turned her fire on Israel. “This is a government that’s actually on a rampage against human rights…
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The Santa Ana Unified School District (SAUSD) Board of Education approved two ethnic studies courses that Jewish groups say contain anti-Israel bias. The course, titled “Ethnic Studies: World Geography,” passed by a margin of three votes in favor and one abstention; the…
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In the digital era, social media have gained widespread popularity and become an important element of human culture. These platforms constitute a modern town square – a space for public discourse, where information and ideas flow rapidly. This article discusses…
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Multiple faculty groups are calling on University of Vermont leaders to do more to address campus antisemitism after an investigation by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights concluded the university mishandled antisemitism complaints, The Burlington Free Press reported. University leaders…
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y every metric, American Jewish campus life is a shadow of what it once was. The City University of New York is losing the last two Jewish members of its 80-member senior leadership team—in the city with the largest Jewish…
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The report adds that it is “commonplace” for students not to wear “certain clothing or jewellery around campus because it would make them visibly identifiable as Jewish.” Other students also confirmed they were reluctant to attend seminars or lectures around issues such…
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For the last 20 years, many of us have been documenting the overwhelming rise of hostility on American campuses towards Israel, Jewish students and professors who do not toe the party line. The hostility seems to be based on the extraordinary effectiveness of…
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An astrophysicist with the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration has been forced to pull out of a conference in Israel amid tensions with the Biden administration over the judicial overhaul being pushed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government. “A…
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As Israel Apartheid Week sweeps across American college campuses, BDS activists have a new weapon in their media arsenal. Boycott, a documentary film produced by Julia Bacha of Just Vision, follows two BDS activists and a newspaper editor, as they and their attorneys from the…
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