When we think about the campaign of delegitimization against Israel, the international efforts of the Palestinians and their allies to isolate and harm Israel come to mind. We may also recall the Durban debacle of 2011, the boycott of Israeli…
read moreThe Center for Research on Antisemitism (ZfA) at the Berlin Technical University in April 2012 appointed as a co-worker an outspoken supporter of antisemite Edward Said: Achim Rohde. A scholar in Islamic Studies, Rohde was hired because he conducts research…
read moreThe sustained anti-Israel de-legitimization campaign is a corollary of the millenarian obsession with the Jews in the Christian and the Muslim worlds. Since Israel is the world’s only Jewish state, and since Zionism is the Jewish people’s national liberation…
read moreFor several years, the University of California has faced some of the most serious charges of anti- Semitism in North American higher education.New developments provide hope that the University will turn this situation around. Last week, Jewish students settled an anti-Semitism lawsuit against…
read moreIt is obviously easier to criticize how something was covered in the newspaper or who was included in an international or academic forum than to write about what or who was not there. Often, the most powerful bias of a publication…
read moreFOUR YEARS AGO I RECEIVED A VERY UNUSUAL invitation indeed. The Church of England in Manchester, England, was organizing a conference on the subject of “Conflict resolution on Campus.” Chaplains and counselors from all faiths were invited to attend and there…
read moreWisdom is often found at the Aristotelian mean. In the debate over campus anti-Semitism, alarmists are too often pitted against quietists. The former see danger behind every corner, while the latter don’t see it until it is too late. In…
read moreHusband and wife. Both Jewish. Both history professors. Both right wing. Both combat anti-Semitism on American college campuses. Meet Stephen H. Norwood and Eunice G. Pollack. “It’s very exciting,” Pollack told The Jewish Press. “We go to archives together –…
read moreWithin Jewish communities here at UC Santa Cruz and elsewhere, the question of Jewish identity in relation to Israel is one without any clear answer. For some, Jewishness is intimately tied to Israel, inseparable from it. For others, the state…
read more“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven,” according to both Ecclesiastes 3:1 and, in more recent history, the Byrds. So, when is a good time to protest the Jewish state of Israel?…
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