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The University of Southern California The student government vice president at the University of Southern California resigned this week, alleging she was the subject of antisemitic harassment over her support for Israel. In response, the university administration said it is…
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A tweet showing a mural depiction of George Floyd wearing a keffiyeh, said to be created by Palestinian artist Walid Ayoub on the West Bank separation wall. (Twitter, Haaretz)1 Institute for Contemporary Affairs Founded jointly with the Wechsler Family Foundation…
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A Students for Justice in Palestine march in New York Credit: JCPA. A report published on Tuesday by the nonprofit watchdog AMCHA Initiative documented a more than 300 percent increase in campus activity in 2019 intended to undermine and discredit…
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Members of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at UC Berkeley. Photo: Ariel Hayat. A new group of radical activists has emerged in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. They are called Within Our Lifetime, and they are unapologetically anti-Zionist, anti-American, pro-violence, and anti-peace.…
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University of York The University of York has reportedly adopted the International Definition of Antisemitism. Campaign Against Antisemitism has long urged widespread adoption of the Definition. The UK was the first country in the world to adopt the International Definition, something for which Campaign Against…
read moreFormer Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper addressed a virtual conference of the Christians United For Israel (CUFI) organization Sunday evening, accusing the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement of bringing anti-Semitism ‘into polite society’. Anti-Semitism is on “the rise,…
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The Spanish flag. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Spain’s government just adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism. The IHRA definition says: “Anti-Semitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical…
read moreGeorge Eliot was at the peak of her renown in 1874 when John Blackwood, her publisher, learned that she was at work on “Daniel Deronda, ” a new novel. As a literary man, he was in thrall to her…
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Illustrative: Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn speaks after Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May lost a vote on her Brexit deal in the House of Commons, London, Tuesday January 15, 2019. (House of Commons/PA via AP) A Jewish advocacy group in London…
read moreLast week marked 75 years since World War II concluded in Europe with the unconditional surrender of the Germans to the Allies. Hitler came to power on the back of a severely declining economy, for which the Jews became the…
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