No sooner had the California State Assembly voted on and passed House Resolution 35 (HR 35) that calls upon California public universities to “increase their efforts to swiftly and unequivocally condemn acts of anti-Semitism” than the University of California Students…
read moreAs we send our daughters and sons off to a new year of college, are they entering an environment that is friendly to Jews? Is their college a place where they can be who they are Jewishly? Is what they…
read moreThe Public Eye: Interview with David Hirsh David Hirsh is a Lecturer in Sociology at Goldsmith’s College, University of London. He is the author of Anti-Zionism and Antisemitism: Cosmopolitan Reflections, The Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism, (YIISA) Working…
read moreThere has never been agreement about Zionism. Not only is the idea of Jewish nationalism controversial, the very word “Zionism” arouses unique passions, as a recent controversy highlights. It was recently reported that the Jewish Federation of North America had dropped the…
read moreJudith Butler, who last week received Frankfurt’s coveted Theodor Adorno Prize, came to prominence as an anti- Israel agitator almost a decade ago. In September 2002, Harvard president Lawrence Summers charged that “at Harvard and… universities across the country,” faculty-initiated…
read moreWASHINGTON, DC (PRBuzz.com) August 23, 2012 — The Louis D. Brandeis Center today released its path-breaking LDB Best Practices Guide for Combating Campus Anti-Semitism and Anti-Israelism. The Brandeis Center is an international Jewish civil rights organization which combats anti-Semitism on…
read moreFor the past decade, a movement of protest against Israel, its policies and Zionism has occupied a central place on University of California and other college and university campuses. The nature of the messages embodied in that movement has drawn tremendous attention…
read moreJERUSALEM (JTA) — After the 1967 Six-Day War, much of the radical left in the West predicated its militant anti-Zionism on the illusory notion that the Palestinians represented a revolutionary and “progressive” vanguard that could one day mobilize the Arab…
read moreDear UC Advisory Committee on Campus Climate, Culture, and Inclusion: We are faculty at the University of California who, for the last several years, have been involved with efforts to document and address campus anti-Semitism in institutions of higher education…
read moreSue Fondrie has won this year’s Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest [1] in the crime novel category, with this stellar entry [2] for an intentionally bad opening sentence: She slinked through my door wearing a dress that looked like it had been painted on … not with good…
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