Coinciding with last weekend’s 75th anniversary of the “Kristallnacht” pogrom by the Nazis, several institutions in Berlin, including the Jewish Museum, organized an “International Conference on Current Phenomena of Antisemitism in Europe.” Given that the focus of the conference was…
read moreDoes Brooklyn College have a Jewish problem? For the second time this year, the university’s political science department has outraged the Jewish community by agreeing to co-sponsor events hosted by Brooklyn College Students for Justice in Palestine, an organization whose…
read moreBrooklyn College is again provoking passions, playing host this week to an anti-Israel activist who many, citing his published writings, believe to be anti-Semitic. Ben White, who describes himself as a writer, freelance journalist and researcher on his Twitter page,…
read moreZionism = apartheid = racism. The once reviled and then revoked UN resolution was archived and mothballed when some quick-witted people nicked the concept, hid the birth certificate, gave it a pseudo-humanitarian suit of clothes, then held aloft a rollicking…
read moreThis column is a response to a guest column published in the Alligator: “Palestinians are people with a voice” Anat Berko is a world-renowned terrorism expert who has lectured before Congress, the Department of State, the FBI, and NATO. Berko…
read moreTammi Rossman-Benjamin lives and teaches in the belly of the beast, and although she is on faculty, her position as lecturer of Hebrew Language at the University of California, Santa Cruz means she has practically no political pull. But Rossman-Benjamin…
read moreGoing to college has always been and continues to be about more than just getting an education and moving on into the workforce. Going to college is about having fun and growing both academically as well as socially. But how…
read moreTwo San Francisco-based lawyers have filed an appeal asking the U.S. Department of Education to revisit a previously dismissed complaint alleging that UC Berkeley administrators failed to respond to a hostile campus environment for Jewish students. Lawyers Joel Siegal and…
read moreThe American Association of University Professors’ Journal of Academic Freedom has come under criticism from both inside and outside the organization for its new issue, which is dominated by essays calling for an academic boycott of Israel. One member of…
read more“But fundamentally, it [Zionism] is the stepchild of anti-Semitism.” – Brian Klug, 2007. “My first visit to Israel in 1980 was hardly typical for a young Jewish woman. On the plane, I found myself sitting next…
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