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The Extreme Rise in Antisemitism is Hardening the Jewish Community

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Avi Benlolo National Post, Nov. 3, 2023 “Where are the pro-Palestinian demonstrations demanding that Hamas return the 242 Israelis and foreigners held in medieval-like conditions in Gaza? Where are the candlelight vigils and the calls to stop bombing Israeli cities and towns with crude rockets aimed at civilian populations? Where are the so-called international human rights […]

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Canadians Should Expect Better of Those Tasked with Fighting Antisemitism

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Barbara Kay National Post, Nov. 5, 2023 “As for Lyons’s curious public reticence, she may be operating under a superannuated anti-antisemitism paradigm of genteel back-channel diplomacy. This is the one where Jews (or in Lyons’s case a non-Jew who understands the way things work in Jewish communities) avoid combating antisemitism in ways that are too […]

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The Jews of My Generation Thought They Would Be Exempt from History. They Were Wrong

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David Bezmozgis The Globe and Mail, Nov. 3, 2023 “In the weeks since Hamas  massacred some 1,400 Israelis and abducted more than 200 others into Gaza,  Jews around the world, including in Canada and the United States, have come to the shocking realization that a significant number of their fellow citizens are indifferent to their pain, openly celebrate […]

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Daily Briefing: WHO IS FUELING CAMPUS ANTISEMITISM?

  INCREASING TIES Berkeley Law Dean ‘Stunned’ by Students Radicalized at Schools Like Berkeley:  John Seller, Epoch Times, Nov. 3, 2023 — What did he expect? Erwin Chemerinsky helped radicalize three generations of law school students. Now he’s shocked! Shocked! They’re holding far-left, antisemitic protests around the country.   Open Letter to the Edinburgh University Students’ Association:  […]

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Harvard’s Double Standard on Free Speech

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John Tierney City Journal, Oct. 29, 2023 “At Harvard, three-quarters of students didn’t feel comfortable publicly disagreeing with their professor on a controversial topic. Seventy percent said that it was acceptable to shout down a speaker, and 30 percent said that using violence to stop a speech was acceptable.”   After Harvard student groups blamed […]

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IN-DEPTH: Who Is Behind the Anti-Israel Rallies and What’s Their Goal?

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Epoch Times, Nov. 6, 2023   “The fact that we now see hundreds of people in the streets rallying in support of Hamas’ barbarity is no surprise since these groups have operated without impunity.”   Canada and other countries have seen a steady stream of protests against Israel and in support of Palestine since the […]

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Anti-Israel Demonstrators Hate the West

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Rich Lowry National Review, Oct. 27, 2023 “If Gaza were equally Westernized, it would be worrying about whether it’s overbuilding seaside real estate rather than having to get water and electricity from the neighboring country its governing authority — a savage terror group — is trying to destroy.”   The cataract of anti-Israel sentiment on college […]

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Who Now Still Believes in Our Universities?

Philip Carl Salzman Epoch Times, Oct. 18, 2023 “McGill didn’t stop with a righteous sentiment. It disenfranchised the group in question.”   For the past decade, universities in North America and in the English-speaking world have declared partisan and ideological positions that negated the traditional academic principle of institutional neutrality. As a result of the […]

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Is Campus Rage Fueled by Middle Eastern Money?

Bari Weiss The Free Press, Nov. 7, 2023 “Overall, authors of the report write, “a massive influx of foreign, concealed donations to American institutions of higher learning, much of it from authoritarian regimes with notable support from Middle Eastern sources, reflects or supports heightened levels of intolerance towards Jews, open inquiry and free expression.”   […]

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Daily Briefing: OBAMA, SPARE US YOUR OPINION

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Obama’s ‘Blame Everyone’ Comments on the Middle East:  Jim Geraghty, National Review, Nov. 6, 2023 Sorry, Obama: ‘We’ Aren’t Complicit. It’s You Who Has Blood on Your Hands | Opinion:  Liel Leibovitz, Newsweek, Nov. 5, 2023 We’re Not All Complicit—But Obama Sure Is:  Abe Greenwald, Commentary, Nov. 5, 2023 No Fourth Term for Barack Obama:  David P. […]

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Sorry, Obama: ‘We’ Aren’t Complicit. It’s You Who Has Blood on Your Hands | Opinion

Liel Leibovitz Newsweek, Nov. 5, 2023 “Only a mind gripped by the erotic pull of theory would look at the 2009 demonstrations in Iran—the so-called Green Revolution—and decide that America ought to side not with the huddled masses yearning to breathe free but with their jailers, the murderous mullahs who beat women to death for […]

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Obama’s ‘Blame Everyone’ Comments on the Middle East

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_________________________________________________________________ Jim Geraghty National Review, Nov. 6, 2023 “Whatever happened to the idea that the people responsible for the violence in the Middle East are the ones who actually committed the violence?”   … This morning, we must turn our attention to the recent comments of former president Barack Obama, who was pretty quiet for […]

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