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Rep. Virginia Foxx (R., N.C.), the chairwoman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, unveiled a bipartisan bill that would prohibit federal aid from flowing to universities that boycott Israel. Foxx unveiled the measure, the “Protect Economic Freedom Act,” alongside…
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Wikipedia editors have added a section on “Palestine” to the “Genocide of indigenous peoples” Wikipedia article. The article begins by stating that “the genocide of indigenous peoples, colonial genocide, or settler genocide is the elimination of indigenous peoples as a part of the process of colonialism. According to certain genocide…
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Can we blame the 19-year-olds pitching tents on campus quads for imagining that, as student protesters, they are on the “right side of history?” The phrase became a mantra of spring 2024. Columbia historian Rashid Khalidi took a megaphone to his…
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Every demonstration in New York matters for Gaza. Your work is so important to the resistance in Gaza, more than ever.” So said Khaled Barakat to his Columbia University audience in March, adding that his “friends and brothers in Hamas”…
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Outspoken Columbia business professor Shai Davidai was banned from campus after he clashed with rowdy anti-Israel protesters and confronted school officials last week during the first anniversary of Hamas’ deadly Oct. 7 attack on the Jewish state. The Ivy League…
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The U.S. Department of Treasury, in a joint action with the Canadian government, sanctioned the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network and one of its leaders for providing material support to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a…
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I’m a proud Palestinian who grew up in the Shu’fat refugee camp in Jerusalem. I live in East Jerusalem with my family, and want nothing more in this world than to see my children inherit a just and peaceful world.…
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As if commemorating the first anniversary of the worst single-day massacre of Jews since the Holocaust wasn’t harrowing enough, we American Jews were treated Monday to a reminder that the marauders who want us dead are alive and well in…
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Violent anti-Israel protests continued in September, as new FBI statistics show that Jews were the most frequent targets of hate crimes in the US in 2023. In Australia, pro-Hamas demonstrators including Students for Palestine, Extinction Rebellion, and Disrupt Wars fought with…
read moreDear SPME Members, Supporters, and Partners, Together with all of you, SPME is commemorating the first anniversary of what Israelis know as the black Shabbat and is known elsewhere simply as October 7. We mourn together with our Israeli families, friends, and…
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