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I must apologize at the outset for offering to the reader what is by now a truism known to everybody who has had even short periods of sobriety during the last decade. Whatever imaginings the reader may have had during…
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On January 12, 2021, the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations published a letter to President-elect Joe Biden, imploring his incoming administration to “maintain and build upon” the precedent of honoring the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA)’s working definition of…
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“Jewish people today on campus can be tolerated, protected or abused. At no point are they treated as equals.” — David Collier, Academia, January 18, 2021. This Jew-hate is cloaked in anti-Zionism, a doctrine that claims the Jewish state, alone among the…
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You may think your child’s college courses that are part of a Jewish Studies program are protected from the antisemitism that permeates college and university campuses throughout America. I have some bad news. On college and university campuses across the…
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Peter Beinart. Credit: Joe Mabel via Wikimedia Commons. In case you haven’t heard, people who want to eliminate Israel are very interested in stopping anti-Semitism. In other words, the same people who want to deny rights to the Jewish people…
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An anti-Israel protest, at SOAS University of London, April 27, 2017. Photo: Steve Eason / Flickr. An independent appeals panel at London University’s School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) has recommended an investigation into allegations of a “toxic, antisemitic…
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IfNotNow supporters at a rally in New York City. Source: IfNotNow via Facebook. The progressive Jewish activist group IfNotNow has generated several headlines in the past year by challenging mainstream American Jewish organizations on its support for Israel, and more…
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Tell people that Wiki is a problem when it comes to antisemitism or historical revisionism and they will most likely brush you off. You will hear stock responses that range from ‘everyone knows that about Wikipedia‘ or ‘I only use…
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The Temple Mount in Jerusalem, March 20, 2020. Photo: Reuters / Ammar Awad. This week, 122 Arab intellectuals wrote a letter to The Guardian opposing the IHRA working definition of antisemitism. Let’s look at their arguments: 1. The fight against antisemitism must be deployed…
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Officials at the U.S. Department of Education last month released findings in their investigation into Georgetown University, Texas A&M, Cornell, Yale, Harvard, Rutgers and other universities over billions of dollars in unreported funding from the oil-rich Gulf kingdom of Qatar.…
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