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As the Israeli campaign against Hamas in Gaza continues the effects on the American landscape have been profound. Universities are in turmoil, with pro-BDS students and faculty pitted against administrations and donors for control over campuses. The hatred and harassment…
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The current climate on college campuses for Jewish students is incredibly dangerous. Cases are now commonplace with the most visible being Jewish students at Cornell, for instance, having been physically threatened and forced to hide in their dorm rooms for safety. As a…
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The more you think about it, the more horrendous it becomes. Yesterday, on the two-week anniversary of the worst slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust, thousands of people gathered in London to shout out the slogan of the killers. A…
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I am 21 years old and Jewish. Apparently, 48 percent of my peers want people like me dead. As of October 23, 64 percent of 18- to 24-year-olds think what happened on October 7 was a terrorist attack. Seventy-seven percent of us…
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Why do they want to kill us? It is a question most Jews have probably asked themselves in private. Perhaps when among a group of close confidantes. It is an understandable question. The Holocaust posed it in the most brutal…
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The extraordinary horror of the 7 October Hamas massacre in southern Israel has unleashed an unprecedented global wave of antisemitism. Campuses are a critical focal point, with BDS linked students and faculty dropping the mask to reveal genocidal intent, cast…
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In Western, leftish circles, Israel is now treated as a uniquely wicked nation. We’re told it is a racist, colonialist, ‘apartheid state’, despite ample evidence to the contrary. Social-justice activists treat this imperfect Middle Eastern democracy with infinitely more contempt…
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The City of Warsaw adopted the IHRA definition of antisemitism on Friday. Warsaw adopting the definition adds the Polish city to a growing number of capital cities to do the same. Warsaw now joins Washington, London, Berlin, Paris, and others.
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The Republic of Panama became the 42nd country to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism. The decision, announced on July 25, drew praise from Jewish leaders. “Panama’s adopting the IHRA definition is yet another important endorsement for…
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A bipartisan group of 84 lawmakers wrote to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona pressing for information on the Department of Education’s plans to resolve a backlog of investigations into campus antisemitism and improve protections for Jewish students, Jewish Insider has learned. The lawmakers, led by…
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