There is a beguiling paradox around the term “anti-Semitism.” Prejudice of varying degrees toward Jews is a centuries-old phenomenon, yet there remains precious little agreement as to what anti-Semitism involves in our own time. Anyone who has observed the twists…
read moreBERLIN – The Jewish Museum – and a British professor accused of rejecting Zionism – faced withering criticism for their role in a slated event to mark the 75th remembrance of Kristallnacht later this week. A who’s who of academic and…
read moreZionism = apartheid = racism. The once reviled and then revoked UN resolution was archived and mothballed when some quick-witted people nicked the concept, hid the birth certificate, gave it a pseudo-humanitarian suit of clothes, then held aloft a rollicking…
read moreAnti-Semitism has transformed itself over the past two decades into a global scourge, as a resurgent movement of lethal Jew-hatred has led to murders in Europe and elsewhere. According to Daniel J. Goldhagen’s important and timely book The Devil That Never…
read moreTammi Rossman-Benjamin lives and teaches in the belly of the beast, and although she is on faculty, her position as lecturer of Hebrew Language at the University of California, Santa Cruz means she has practically no political pull. But Rossman-Benjamin…
read moreBERLIN – Germany’s main political parties transferred public funds through their foundations to Israel-based NGOs, as well as to organizations in the disputed territories, that are rife with bias against the Jewish state and, in some cases, anti-Semitism. This according…
read moreGoing to college has always been and continues to be about more than just getting an education and moving on into the workforce. Going to college is about having fun and growing both academically as well as socially. But how…
read moreTwo San Francisco-based lawyers have filed an appeal asking the U.S. Department of Education to revisit a previously dismissed complaint alleging that UC Berkeley administrators failed to respond to a hostile campus environment for Jewish students. Lawyers Joel Siegal and…
read more“But fundamentally, it [Zionism] is the stepchild of anti-Semitism.” – Brian Klug, 2007. “My first visit to Israel in 1980 was hardly typical for a young Jewish woman. On the plane, I found myself sitting next…
read moreJewish student rights group AMCHA Initiative on Friday said it had appealed a federal decision that ended three Title VI suits against the University of California’s Berkeley, Irvine and Santa Cruz schools. AMCHA co-founder Tammi Rossman-Benjamin was involved in the UC-Santa Cruz case…
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