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Sisi is Jewish and Egypt is now under Zionist occupation.” Thus screamed a September 21, 2013 headline on Rassd, the news outlet created and backed by the Muslim Brotherhood. The story beneath the headline uses as its source the anti-Semitic conspiracy website Veterans…
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The people who defame Israel and wish to undermine its status in the world are not anti-Semites — or so they will tell you, every chance they get. Their denial of anti-Semitism is essential to their moral position. In their…
read moreThe Boycott, Divest and Sanction movement against Israel is often seen as progressive — so it’s astounding to see its supporters turn to racism. The latest target: Chloé Simone Valdary, an African-American undergraduate at the University of New Orleans and…
read moreThe distinguished intellectual historian Jeffrey Herf, whose Ph.D. is from Brandeis, has written an eloquent and powerful letter to Brandeis president Fred Lawrence. Prof. Herf concludes: That the president of a university founded by Jews in the immediate aftermath of…
read moreA French university shut down a pro-Israel event after disruptions by pro-Palestinian activists. The administration of the Paris 8 University in Saint-Denis near Paris stopped the March 14 activity of approximately 10 members of the “What Israel” group “regretfully, and…
read moreKing’s students will vote on a controversial anti-Israel BDS motion at their Student General Meeting next Tuesday The anti-Israel boycotts, divestment and sanctions movement has yet again reared its head at KCL.The motion, which has resurfaced after it was first proposed…
read moreThere is a virus in the air that has slowly infected our culture. It is called “Tolerism,” a word invented by Howard Rotberg, a Canadian author, to describe the rise of the ideology of tolerance over justice, the foundation of…
read moreOn March 19, it will be two years since Mohammed Merah slaughtered three Jewish children and a rabbi in the courtyard of the Ozar Hatorah Jewish day school in Toulouse, France. Far from being a wake-up call that forced the…
read moreThe recent controversy over Scarlett Johansson’s endorsement of SodaStream, an Israeli company with a factory in the West Bank, and her subsequent refusal to be bullied into repudiating the company, has cast a spotlight on the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and…
read moreRabab Abdulhadi, director of the Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Initiative at San Francisco State University (SFSU), organized a recent delegation to “the West Bank” and “the 1948 areas of Palestine” during which she met with individuals affiliated with U.S. State Department-designated…
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