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Israel is the most maligned country in the world on social media according to a new study, outpacing authoritarian regimes like Russia, North Korea and Iran. The Jewish state is mentioned approximately 10 times more than any other country in…
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After decades of ignoring how foreign governments were using donations to universities, the Department of Education (DoE) finally launched an investigation in 2020 and published a report that found that some of the foreign sources of funding that are hostile…
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South African political party Economic Freedom Front (EFF) has called for Cape Town-based Jewish day school United Herzlia Schools (Herzlia High School) to be “deregistered” from the Department of Education’s list of schools. EFF Member of the Provincial Legislature (MPL)…
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Protests are not an unusual sight at McGill University in Montreal. Student activism is something of a vaunted tradition at our school. But March’s Israeli Apartheid Week was not a peaceful civil rights protest. No one was hurt, as far as I know, but…
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Negative Rate My Professors reviews are common. But two highly rated Jewish professors say they received some uncommonly negative reviews: ones calling them racist. They said they found the timing curious. The day before, as reflected in emails provided to Inside…
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Organizations that celebrated terrorist attacks against Israelis and support boycotting Israel have advised Meta, Facebook’s parent company, on its content moderation regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A report from NGO Monitor, which researches the activities and funding of organizations active in relation…
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A New York lawmaker is embarking on a campaign to gain support for a bill that would penalize New York-based nonprofits that support activities in Israeli settlements. Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani, a Democratic Socialist from Queens, has declared Wednesday a “day…
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About a year ago, the media company VICE News published a YouTube video featuring a young woman with an unsettling mask over her head to conceal her identity. When she responds to questions from the off-camera interviewer, her voice is…
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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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