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At the same time that the U.S. Department of Education is reopening a seven-year-old case concerning Rutgers University allowing discrimination against Jewish students, the agency is expected to adopt a new definition of anti-Semitism. In doing so, Assistant Secretary of…
read moreWhat happens when the US government takes cases of anti-Semitic discrimination seriously? You would think that even President Trump’s critics would be cheering the announcement that the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights will look into evidence about anti-Jewish activity at…
read moreThe city-state of Berlin’s new intelligence report on Tuesday classified the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign targeting the Jewish state as part of the outbreak of antisemitism in the German capital. The Jerusalem Post examined the 248-page report which says…
read moreSouth 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…
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