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The State Department has doubled down on its policy of defining delegitimization of Israel as a form of anti-Semitism, but is seeking to stay out of a raging debate over whether the definition should be used in the U.S. In…
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Jewish organizations are livid following reports that members of Ohio State University’s marching band, one of the most famous in college football, published a satirical songbook containing lyrics making fun of Jews being murdered in concentration camps. Both the Anti-Defamation…
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A parody songbook shared privately by members of the Ohio State marching band — the so-called “Best Damn Band in the Land” — contained offensive references to the Holocaust, according to a Wall Street Journal report detailing just what those references…
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When one of our activists at the Israel Advocacy Movement went undercover at a BDS protest of McDonald’s in Shadwell, London. The activists admitted they were not boycotting Israeli businesses – but all Jewish businesses
read moreDoes it matter if a tenured professor expresses personal opinions, no matter how odious and controversial, but that may be acceptable under the umbrella of academic free speech? With great regularity, academic fraudulent scholarship has been substituted for reasoned inquiry…
read moreJews Against Themselves is about the new forms taken by Jewish apostasy in an age when Jewish existence is threatened more starkly and immediately than at any time since the Hitler era. I have not attempted a systematic taxonomy of all…
read moreThe state Assembly on Monday unanimously approved a measure urging the University of California to condemn all forms of anti-Semitism. UC, meanwhile, said it will not tackle any possible new policies regarding anti-Jewish bias on its 10 campuses at next…
read moreA wave of anti-Semitism is sweeping across American universities. During the 2014-2015 school year, resolutions calling for a boycott of the Jewish state were passed by 15 student governments — and considered by more than 15 others. At UCLA, the…
read moreDoes it matter how we define our words? Sometimes it does. The U.S. Department of Education understands this point, as do the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Universities need to learn it, too. Last year, the Education Department…
read moreScholars have struggled to understand the many faces of anti-Semitism, a phenomenon which has existed for almost two millennia, and which the great scholar Robert Wistrich labeled “the longest hatred.” In the Middle Ages when Jews were forced into conversion,…
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