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An American anti-Zionist academic who lost a tenured university position over his graphically-antisemitic outbursts on Twitter surfaced at the University of Cape Town (UCT) in South Africa on Wednesday, where he delivered a fierce attack on the “corporate university” and…
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Last week, in a rare moment of bipartisan comity, the House of Representatives overwhelmingly endorsed a nonbinding resolution criticizing the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement. The resolution’s text avoided anything potentially controversial and simply reaffirmed the conventional U.S. support for a two-state,…
read moreThe chief government figure opposing the bill is Foreign Minister Simon Coveney. Coveney argues that Ireland risks its standing in the European Union because the bill is legally unsound. He is correct. A Brussels-based EU trade official warned the Irish…
read moreMatthew Finkelstein, a Jewish attendee of the California Democratic Party’s state convention at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, May 31, 2019 (Photo/Dan Pine) The Resolutions Committee of the California Democratic Party has substantially rewritten six resolutions, deleting or softening…
read moreJan Keulen, director of The Rights Forum, a Dutch pro-Palestinian advocacy group that was founded by PM Dries van Agt, has made a disgraceful antisemitic statement about the mainstream representative body of the Dutch Jewish community. The Central Jewish Board had…
read moreVienna students fight antisemitism. (photo credit: TIMO MULLER) University student groups affiliated with major German political parties passed an anti-BDS resolution at the first German-Israel student conference on Sunday, held in Frankfurt. “An alliance across the political spectrum sending a…
read moreA panel of experts from the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs and the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA) discuss anti-Semitism in the media, campus and public life. Photo by Kineret Rifkind. Moderating a panel in…
read moreSeveral groups active in the BDS movement have ties to Palestinian terrorist organizations, an investigation by The Daily Caller News Foundation found. BDS groups have coordinated with terrorist groups and promoted their leaders, according to TheDCNF’s investigation. Leaders of the…
read moreA BDS demonstration outside the School of Oriental and African Studies in London in 2017. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. The Union of Jewish Students in the United Kingdom expressed disappointment on Wednesday after a representative body for disabled students defined itself as…
read moreA fierce backlash was perhaps all but inevitable when a recently published special issue of the academic journal Israel Studies provided a powerful counterpoint to the incessant delegitimization of the world’s only Jewish state. Under the title “Word Crimes: Reclaiming the Language…
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