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On June 2, the venerable publication Scientific American published an anti-Israel propaganda opinion piece on its website titled, “As Health Care Workers, We Stand in Solidarity with Palestine.” The article, now removed, was authored by a group of physicians and medical students. Voice4Israel…
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Jeffrey Lax, an Orthodox Jewish professor at the City University of New York’s (CUNY) Kingsborough Community College, announced on June 18 that he is resigning from CUNY’s professors union over the recently passed anti-Israel resolution. The Professional Staff Congress (PSC)-CUNY voted overwhelmingly…
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Patti Smith and Julian Casablancas of The Strokes are among more than 600 musicians who have signed a letter calling for artists to avoid playing concerts in Israel. “We call on you to join us with your name in refusing…
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A Danish pension fund, which prides itself on being the world’s strictest on human rights violations, says it is considering adding Israel to a long list of countries it excludes following this month’s conflict with Palestinians. The $22 billion Akademiker…
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A Massachusetts state senator is under fire for comments he made legitimizing Hamas, a Palestinian terrorist organization, as well as a call to replace Israel with a binational state. In a statement posted on his website on May 28, State Sen. Jamie…
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They’re in hot H2O. Scientific American found itself taking heat this month after the scholarly, 176-year-old magazine published an opinion piece titled “Health Care Workers Call for Support of Palestinians.” The screechy diatribe accused Israel of “vaccine apartheid” and “war…
read moreThe summer of 2020 will forever be remembered as the time that wokeness in America went fully mainstream—when white liberals made White Fragility author Robin DiAngelo a millionaire, the CEO of Twitter gave How to Be an Antiracist author Ibram X. Kendi $10 million, Nike…
read moreThe story goes like this: A Jewish student is elected to the university’s student government. The student’s fitness for office is challenged by peers who question whether that student can maintain “neutrality” on campus issues because of their Jewish identity.…
read moreEarlier this month, several left-leaning senators and representatives signed various letters contending that “Israel has an obligation under international law” to provide free vaccines for all Palestinians in the Palestinian Authority (PA). The claims are baseless, and they call into…
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Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, co-founder and director of the California-based AMCHA Initiative. Credit: IU Europe Gateway. Amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and the fallout from the 2020 election, anti-Semitism continued to morph and grow during 2020. While the school year for many…
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