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The University of California-Los Angeles campus. Photo: Photo: Pixabay. Since its announcement earlier this month, US President Donald Trump’s executive order on combating antisemitism has drawn both praise and criticism, underscoring the tensions that have surrounded efforts to protect Jewish…
read moreOn Thursday, Nov. 21, a week before Thanksgiving, 500 high school students settled into their seats in the auditorium of the Fieldston School’s main campus, which sprawls over 18 leafy, manicured acres in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, to…
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The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Photo: ilovebutter / Flickr / CC BY 2.0. The student body president at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) invoked a controversial antisemitism resolution that has been rejected by the campus Jewish community…
read moreIs it anti-Semitism to support the destruction of the one and only Jewish nation-state—home to approximately half of the Jews in the world today? Is it anti-Semitism to say that Jews do not have a right to self-determination—that Jews have…
read moreWASHINGTON—Jewish and Israel-related groups beforehand expressed mixed reactions to U.S. President Donald Trump signing an executive order that requires the U.S. government to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of anti-Semitism in responding to “prohibited forms of discrimination rooted in anti-Semitism as vigorously…
read moreAfter more than 100 Jewish graves were desecrated in the French city of Westhoffen this week, French leaders condemned the anti-Semitic graffiti and vowed to take action. “Anti-Semitism is a crime and we will fight it in Westhoffen as everywhere until our…
read moreAnti-BDS poster (photo credit: JWG LTD) The central city of Graz in Austria on Thursday outlawed public space and institutional support for the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, as well as for political Islam. According to the legislation…
read moreThe three-part course of action, decided following approval by UCL’s governing council last week, aims to raise awareness of various forms of racism targeted towards minority and ethnic groups. The statement comes as a particular victory for members of the…
read more(photo courtesy of Lisa Ben-Haim) Following increased numbers of anti-Semitic acts locally and globally, the Highland Park Borough Council and Gayle Brill Mittler, the borough’s mayor, have spent the last four months examining and drafting proposals of resolutions condemning anti-Semitism,…
read moreSweden’s new foreign minister, Ann Linde [File photo] Sweden’s new foreign minister, Ann Linde, said the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS) is not anti-Semitic, but rather a legitimate and non-violent movement. According to the website of Yediot Ahronoth,Linde’s remarks were…
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