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Civil rights groups are condemning teachers’ union president Randi Weingarten for accusing Jewish Americans of depriving others of opportunity in their bid to reopen schools. Weingarten has already found herself in the middle of multiple battles over reopening schools since…
read moreIn 2016, following major attacks targeting Jewish and Israeli targets around the world, and based on earlier text adopted by the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia, the government-based International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) published a two-page working definition…
read moreDid the world need a new definition of anti-Semitism? Actually, no. The meaning of the term was fully explained in the document produced by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance in 2005. It laid out in detail not only the way it had…
read moreThese days, one can get canceled for anything…except anti-Semitism. Food critic Allison Roman lost her job at The New York Times for saying she doesn’t want a cookware line like Chrissy Teigen. Chris Harrison was axed from the next season of “The Bachelorette” because…
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A few years ago, a woman contacted the pro-Israel organization where I work, StandWithUs, worried about her late husband’s legacy. He had spent his career as a professor at a University of California (UC) school, and was devoted to both…
read moreEarlier this month, several left-leaning senators and representatives signed various letters contending that “Israel has an obligation under international law” to provide free vaccines for all Palestinians in the Palestinian Authority (PA). The claims are baseless, and they call into…
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Strasbourg’s Grand Rabbi Harold-Abraham Weill inspects graves desecrated with swastikas in the Jewish cemetery of Herrlisheim, north of Strasbourg, France, Dec. 14, 2018. Reuters / Vincent Kessler. Council members in the French city of Strasbourg voted this week to reject…
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Kentucky Speaker of The House David Osborne addresses the members of the House during the opening day session of the Kentucky State Legislature in Frankfort, Ky., Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley) For the first time, a US…
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University College London School of Slavonic and East European Studies. Photo: Ethan Doyle White via Wikimedia Commons. The decision of the Academic Board at University College London (UCL) to demand that the institution rescind its adoption of the IHRA definition of antisemitism is…
read moreThe group Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) claims to oppose bigotry and to support security and self-determination for both Israelis and Palestinians. But a new campaign JVP has joined aims to block rumored plans by Facebook to add the term “Zionism” to…
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