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It is difficult to know what to make of anti-Semitism in the 21st century. Survey after survey indicates that it is on the rise, particularly in France and Germany. This trend is even noticeable in societies – like Denmark and Sweden – that were historically relatively…
read moreLONDON — Hostility to Israel is closely related to anti-Jewish hatred, a new study of public attitudes in Britain reveals Thursday. The analysis from the London-based Institute for Jewish Policy Research shows that there is a “clear statistical connection” between backing boycotts of…
read moreThe National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives (NOBLE) and the Georgia Council on American Indian Concerns (GCOAIC) have issued statements condemning the virulently anti-Israel and undeniably antisemitic campaign known as “Deadly Exchange”. That campaign, led by the anti-Jewish and anti-peace extremist organization ‘Jewish Voice for Peace’ (JVP),…
read moreMacron said that France needed to draw “new red lines” against intolerance as he announced plans for a bill to combat online hate speech and called for the dissolution of three extremist right-wing groups. The French president said he would…
read moreMain building of University of Cologne, by architect Adolf Abel, 1934. (photo credit: TIM ‘AVATAR’ BARTEL/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS) The University of Cologne’s student parliament passed a resolution against the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign targeting the Jewish state because BDS is…
read moreExecutive Summary EAPPI, the World Council of Churches’ flagship project on Israel and the Arab-Israel conflict, has brought 1,800 volunteers to the West Bank to “witness life under occupation.” The World Council of Churches does not run similar activities in other…
read moreDeborah E. Lipstadt, a professor of modern Jewish history at Emory University, is perhaps best known for the libel suit filed against her, in the United Kingdom, by the Holocaust denier David Irving. Lipstadt won the case in 2000. She went…
read moreHuman nature requires a belief system to explain the universal questions of why and how? Above all, it rationalizes the question of existence. Whether based in universalism or particularism, the modes of belief vary from fervent orthodoxy to fervent atheism,…
read moreThe old anti-Semitism was mostly, but not exclusively, a tribal prejudice expressed in America up until the mid 20th century most intensely on the right. It manifested itself from the silk-stocking country club and corporation (“gentlemen’s agreement”) to the rawer…
read moreA court in the southern German state of Bavaria affirmed the right of the city of Munich to ban Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions events from its public space, delivering a stinging defeat to BDS activists. According to the December 12…
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