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South Carolina became the first state to adopt a uniform definition of anti-Semitism, but it is only on the books for the next year. The definition is contained in a proviso to the annual state budget bill, which was signed…
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Graffito like the one appearing one morning just across the street from the apartment in a left-leaning so-called alternative neighborhood in Leipzig, “Fick Israel—Fick die U.S.A” is certainly no surprise for those who consider themselves part of the left. Anti-Zionism…
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Ray Allen first learned about the Holocaust when he was in middle school. “We read Anne Frank’s diary,” he says. “I didn’t know if it was just a story that people told. I didn’t realize it was an actual event…
read more[In the days just before the Messiah] a man’s enemies will be the members of his household …. [Sotah 49b (quoting Micah 7.6)] When a man can longer be a Jew, he becomes a Zionist. [Haim Hazaz character, “The Sermon,”…
read moreFor over a decade, the NGO camouflaged behind the misnomer Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) was just a fringe anti-Israel agitprop group that barely registered beyond the University of California, Berkeley, where it was hatched in 1996. But in recent…
read moreData released in February by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) showed an astounding 57% increase in anti-Semitic incidents across the United States in 2017, including physical assaults, vandalism, and attacks on Jewish institutions. Every part of the country was affected, with…
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The Senate on Thursday confirmed Kenneth Marcus, a leading advocate against campus antisemitism, to serve as assistant secretary at the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) in the Department of Education. Legislators approved Marcus with a party-line vote of 50 to…
read moreA bipartisan bill to combat anti-Semitism was introduced last week in Congress, following statistical analysis showing that Jews are the most targeted religious group for hate crimes annually. If enacted, the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act, introduced by Reps. Peter Roskam, R-Ill., Ted Deutch, D-Fla.,…
read more“I have a confession to make. If you are Jewish… I used to hate you. I hated you because I thought you were responsible for the [Somali civil] war which took my father from me for so long… When we…
read moreWASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of US lawmakers from both houses of Congress introduced legislation on Wednesday to codify a working definition of anti-Semitism into the American education system. The Anti-Semitism Awareness Act would direct the Department of Education (DOE) to…
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