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Daily Briefing: JEWISH STUDENTS PUSH BACK AGAINST LEFTIST ANTISEMITISM

Forget Semantics; The Far-Left Has a Real Structural Jewish Problem:  Bernard Bohbot, Dateline:  Middle East, Spring 2022 — The debate about the “working definition of antisemitism” is mainly semantic. If one believes that discrimination is always racist, then wanting to destroy Israel (and no other state) is definitely antisemitic. [Bernard Bohbot is a CIJR Baruch Cohen Intern, co-editor of Communiqué Isranet, and a Ph.D. student at Université du Québec à Montréal.]

Ukraine and its Jews:  Henry Abramson, YouTube, Apr. 24, 2022 — A discussion of Ukrainian-Jewish identity in historical context. Delivered as the Guthaner Lecture of Congregation Beth Am, Los Altos CA, on April 24, 2002.  [According to a 2018 PEW Research Center poll, Ukrainians were the most welcoming of Jews of all Eastern European countries – Ed.] 


To the Antisemites Who Sit Next to Me at School:  Tal Fortgang, Common Sense with Bari Weiss Substack, Apr. 24, 2022

Georgetown Law Dean Defends Hosting Antisemite, Citing Previous Speakers Who ‘Find Gay Marriage Immoral’:  Nate Hochman, National Review, Apr. 25, 2022

Criticizing Israel has Become an Unbreakable Fetish – Opinion:  Alan Baker, Jerusalem Post, Apr. 26, 2022

The Shame of Antisemitism on The Left Has a Long, Malign History:  Philip Spencer, The Guardian, Apr. 1, 2018


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