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Earlier this month, several left-leaning senators and representatives signed various letters contending that “Israel has an obligation under international law” to provide free vaccines for all Palestinians in the Palestinian Authority (PA). The claims are baseless, and they call into…
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Strasbourg’s Grand Rabbi Harold-Abraham Weill inspects graves desecrated with swastikas in the Jewish cemetery of Herrlisheim, north of Strasbourg, France, Dec. 14, 2018. Reuters / Vincent Kessler. Council members in the French city of Strasbourg voted this week to reject…
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Kentucky Speaker of The House David Osborne addresses the members of the House during the opening day session of the Kentucky State Legislature in Frankfort, Ky., Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley) For the first time, a US…
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University College London School of Slavonic and East European Studies. Photo: Ethan Doyle White via Wikimedia Commons. The decision of the Academic Board at University College London (UCL) to demand that the institution rescind its adoption of the IHRA definition of antisemitism is…
read moreThe group Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) claims to oppose bigotry and to support security and self-determination for both Israelis and Palestinians. But a new campaign JVP has joined aims to block rumored plans by Facebook to add the term “Zionism” to…
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(photo credit: Wikimedia Commons) The prominent investment organization JLens that focuses on Jewish investments placed the Chicago-based multinational investor company Morningstar on its “Do Not Invest” list because the firm supports the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement. JLens conducted an…
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The city of Paris, led by Mayor Anne Hidalgo, adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of anti-Semitism on Thursday. The decision was taken by the Council of Paris, headed by Hidalgo. The council, which consists of 163 councilors, is…
read moreElliot W. Eisner, a longtime professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Education, once posited that any learning environment has three types of curricula: 1) the explicit curriculum, or what the institution says it teaches, 2) the implicit curriculum, or the…
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In the fall of 2016, California’s then Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law a mandate to develop an ethnic studies program for high schools in California. California’s public schools have the most ethnically diverse student body in the nation, with…
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A panel of experts from the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs and the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA) discuss anti-Semitism in the media, campus and public life. Photo by Kineret Rifkind. Following the U.S. Capitol…
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