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Main façade of Leinster House where the Irish Senate meets. (photo credit: COURTESY OF JEAN HOUSEN) In a watershed moment, the Irish Senate (Seanad Éireann) approved a bill to criminalize West Bank settlement activity on Wednesday, thereby taking a stand both against…
read moreEuropean Parliament building, Strasbourg, France. (photo credit: ARND WIEGMANN) The anti-Israel Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) has called on the EU to cancel a program to bring together young Israelis and Palestinians in December under the…
read moreAt least six bus stops in London were defaced with posters declaring “Israel is a racist endeavor” early Thursday, in protest of the UK Labour Party’s adoption of an internationally recognized definition of anti-Semitism that characterizes that statement as anti-Semitic.…
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Look, I write for a Jewish publication. About Jews. All day. Every day. Which means it takes a lot to move me, especially when it comes to the never-ending torrent of bigoted drivel produced by Israel’s shrillest detractors. But this…
read moreDeir Yassin: Sof Hamitos [Deir Yassin: The End of the Myth]. By Eliezer Tauber. Modi’in, Is.: Kinneret Zmora-Bitan Dvir Publishing, 2017. 379 pp. 96 Israeli NS. Of all the canards associated with the Arab-Israeli conflict, one stands out: the events…
read morePro-Palestinian activists have a long history of disrupting Israel-connected events. They shout down speakers, block entrances and exits, and even physically attack speakers and participants. Up until now, these tactics have often been successful because law enforcement authorities have handled…
read moreMembers of the Union of Students in Ireland vote to support a motion endorsing the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel. Photo: USI. The Union of Students in Ireland voted last Thursday to join the boycott, divestment, and…
read moreGerman diplomats have said accusations of antisemitism against Kuwait Airways for its practice of refusing Israeli passengers are exaggerated, triggering sharp criticism from the Simon Wiesenthal Center and a German lawyer who sued the airline. The statement defending state-owned Kuwait…
read moreProfessors Cary Nelson, left and Russell Berman at a panel discussion on the sidelines of the Modern Language Association conference in Chicago, January 2014. This lengthy essay by two leading US professors challenges the world of academic publishing. They identify…
read moreOn the last Thursday in March, as Jewish students were busy getting ready for Passover the very next day, a coalition of anti-Israel activists at New York University shepherded a resolution through the Student Government Assembly and the Student Senators Council, demanding…
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