Analysis
Wednesday, January 22nd 2025
WINDS OF CHANGE Preparing for the Antisemitism Awareness Act: Recommendations for Colleges and Universities; Debevoise, Jan. 16, 2025 — Republican majorities in the House and Senate will likely pass the Antisemitism Awareness Act in 2025. Elise Stefanik Vows to Fight ‘Anti-Semitic Rot’ at United Nations: Alana Goodman, Washington Free Beacon, Jan. 21, 2025 — Elise […]
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Novi Zhukovsky The New York Sun, Jan. 21, 2025 “The settlement puts an end to two lawsuits filed against the school over its mishandling of antisemitism after Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel and the ensuing war in Gaza.” ‘We now have a Harvard standard that other colleges will strive to meet,’ a leading authority […]
Ian Oxnevad National Association of Scholars, Jan. 20, 2025 “Depriving higher education’s anti-Semitism of financial oxygen is necessary, but the problem is not anti-Semitism alone.” America’s colleges and universities are going the way of Myspace and Blockbuster. A demographic cliff has led to shrinking demand, while a growing disgust for what higher education offers props […]
John M. Ellis The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal, Jan. 8, 2025 “Why are college students, of all people, so ignorant of simple historical facts that make nonsense of their slogans? Short answer: That’s the way their radical teachers want them.” The scale of support on college campuses for militant antisemitism and even […]
Isaac Grand Algemeiner, Jan. 21, 2025 “Subsequent investigations have painted an even more alarming picture, with reports suggesting that Qatar and the Muslim Brotherhood have secretly channeled over $13 billion into American universities between 2001 and 2021.” Another morning, another flood of emails. Lately, my university inbox has become more than just a stream […]
Thursday, January 9th 2025
Zina Rakhamilova Israel Hayom, Jan. 7, 2025 “Justin Trudeau’s failure to protect Canadian Jews during this critical period is not only a betrayal of the Jewish community but also a failure of leadership that resonates far beyond Canada’s borders.” It has been one of the most challenging times for Jewish people in Canada since […]
Monday, December 30th 2024
Melanie Phillips Mosaic, Dec. 26, 2024 So how should we explain this? And what can we do about it? There are three kinds of anti-Semites who matter: Muslims, liberals, and the hard left. There is a fourth group—the extreme right—but although this is a growing problem, it’s insignificant relative to the other three. Once upon a […]
Isranet Daily Briefing
Monday, December 23rd 2024
Referring to the Israeli attack on Hezbollah, using explosives in pagers, cartoonist Martyn Turner depicts an IDF soldier who looks dirty, sinister and with a large nose, a Jewish caricature which belongs in Der Sturmer. His thought bubble says ‘‘they all hate us so let’s get em’ painting Jews as justifying their place in the world only in terms of […]
Debbie Weiss Algemeiner, Dec. 16, 2024 “In the immediate aftermath of Oct. 7, while many other European countries flew Israeli flags above their government or public buildings, no such act of solidarity was shown in Ireland.” Ireland’s decision to join South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice and its support for redefining […]
Oliver Sears Fathom Journal, December 2024 “His short statement drips with contempt, revealing how such antiquated anti-Jewish racism presents itself in contemporary political commentary, without the least self-doubt.” I have a photograph, circa 1908 of my great-grandmother, Perla Rozenblum aged eighteen with a group of friends in Vienna at the tombstone of Theodor Herzl, the godfather of modern […]
Alex Winston Jerusalem Post, Dec. 19, 2024 “The current Irish prime minister and foreign minister, I think, perceive themselves as global statesmen striding the universe, whose very utterances everyone is hanging on.” Over a decade ago, Michael D Higgins, then still future president of the Republic of Ireland, visited the town of Sderot with a delegation of […]
Allan Shatter Jerusalem Post, Dec. 22, 2024 “The Irish government is simultaneously accusing Israel of genocide while recognizing nothing done by Israel to defend its citizens against Hamas terrorism currently falls within the existing international law concept of genocide.” On Tuesday, December 17, Dr Jilan Wahba Abdul Majid, elevated from Palestine’s representative to ambassadorial status […]
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