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UPDATE: The University of Washington says the school remains committed to its Israel Studies program. Please see the latest here. The original story follows. (JTA) — The University of Washington has put its five-year-old Israel Studies Program on hold after a major donor, angry…
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Bay Area Jewish communal organizations are understandably upset by the Castro Valley school board’s recent unanimous decision to approve a high-priced contract with the Liberated Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum Coalition (LESMC), the educational consulting group that promotes an overtly anti-Jewish and anti-Zionist “critical” ethnic studies curriculum and…
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Editorial Note The Harvard Divinity School program of Religion and Public Life is running events presenting Israel in a negative light. The Religion and Public Life initiative was established in 2019. It integrates a number of existing Harvard Divinity School programs along with…
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J. Herbert Nelson, II, the stated clerk of the Presbyterian Church USA, targeted American Jews with hateful anti-Israel rhetoric twice during the past few months. Most recently, he did it in a sermon he gave on MLK day, two days…
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New York City’s newly elected Democratic comptroller Brad Lander says he has “full confidence” in his chief spokeswoman, a longtime anti-Israel activist who has promoted boycotts of the Jewish state, raising questions about Lander’s conflicting public positions on the anti-Israel Boycott,…
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One of the legacies of Jeremy Corbyn’s time as Labour leader is that antisemitism has become an issue of national interest and generates huge media attention. This year, that phenomenon was more apparent than ever before. When the Royal Court…
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A Paris-based institute founded by Arab countries to disseminate information about the Arab world has come under attack by supporters of the anti-Zionist “boycott, divestment and sanctions” (BDS) campaign over an exhibition it is currently hosting dedicated to the Jewish…
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The Trade Union Congress (TUC) has sparked anger and dismay by announcing that it opposes the signing of a new trade agreement between the UK and Israel. In a statement released ahead of a Westminster debate on UK-Israel trade negotiations,…
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Israel is committing modern slavery against Palestinians through its control of the disputed territories, said Stated Clerk Rev. Dr. J. Herbert Nelson II of the US Presbyterian Church on Monday in a Martin Luther King Jr. Day statement. “The continued…
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The prominent American academic Melissa Landa is suing the University of Maryland for her alleged illegal termination and documented accusations of anti-Jewish discrimination by the academic institution that she experienced in connection with her religious background and her pro-Israel advocacy. Landa told…
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