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Thursday, August 15th 2024
Zach Kessel National Review, Aug. 14, 2024 “Shame on UCLA for letting antisemitic thugs terrorize Jews on campus. Today’s ruling says that UCLA’s policy of helping antisemitic activists target Jews is not just morally wrong but a gross constitutional violation. UCLA should stop fighting the Constitution and start protecting Jews on campus.” A Los […]
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Anat Peled and Carrie Keller-Lynn SPME, July 10, 2024 “Israelis are finding they are no longer welcome at many European universities, including participating in scientific collaborations. Their participation in cultural institutions and defense trade shows is increasingly becoming taboo.” Years of pro-Palestinian campaigning for a global boycott against Israel once found limited support. But in […]
Monday, August 12th 2024
Avital Indig/ Makor Rishon Israel Hayom, July 10, 2024 “Over the course of time antisemitism has led to two opposite processes: For some, it has aroused a strong desire to distance themselves from Judaism and to assimilate, while among others it has actually sparked a will to withdraw inwards and to bring the Jewish community […]
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Monday, July 29th 2024
OUT OF CONTROL Anti-Semitic Violence Is Out of Control in Canada: Hardeep Singh, Spiked, July 24, 2024 — Montreal is not what it used to be. During a visit to Canada’s second most-populous city earlier this year, one thing stood out to me – the huge volume of pro-Palestinian posters, on walls and shop windows, denouncing Israel’s […]
Brendan O’Neill Spiked, July 25, 2024 “When Netanyahu is given horns and a blood-filled mouth, it should be clear he has become a stand-in for something else – for The Jew, for the toxic influence of that most problematic of peoples.” What would you call a gathering of angry people marching behind a giant, […]
Carly Adno Australia Jewish News, July 25, 2024 “We find ourselves in echo chambers and TikTok will deliberately suppress pro-Israel content, so it’s important to take the fight beyond social media as well.” In a wide-ranging interview in this week’s AJN, former Israeli government spokesperson Eylon Levy says fighting the information war against Israel is […]
Avital Indig Israel Hayom, July 10, 2024 “Columbia was one of the first universities to see violent demonstrations, and as it happened, I had a front-row seat. Until then, I had never experienced anything like what I saw.” Shai Davidai is an Israeli-American social psychologist, senior lecturer at Columbia Business School and symbol of the […]
Alan Ripp WSJ, July 25, 2024 “No dogs allowed up here,” a passing jogger scolded me as I tried to call 911. I looked up and unbelievably, there was my attacker again, back on his bike and coming at me on the cinder path, shouting “You can’t run, Jew. I’m going to kill you now.” […]
Wednesday, July 17th 2024
Elizabeth Rosner CNN, July 13, 2024 “I often feel unable to manage my conflicting feelings about forgiveness when it comes to overt cruelty.” Sometime in late April, the Jewish cemetery in upstate New York where both of my parents are buried was vandalized. Close to 100 gravestones, almost all with Hebrew lettering on one or both sides, […]
Friday, July 12th 2024 / Friday, July 12th 2024
SHABBAT READING Moses Strikes the Rock: His Sin Depends on Your Worldview: Prof. Haim (Howard) Kreisel, The Torah.com, June 21, 2023 — Commentators read the Bible closely to make sense of problematic passages. Nevertheless, their explanations are rarely purely textual, but reflect their own ideologies. A parade example is determining the precise sin of Moses and […]
Friday, July 12th 2024
Batya Ungar-Sargon Spiked, June 26, 2024 “Like most of America’s cultural battles, this one is a class battle in disguise. It’s a symptom of a much larger divide in the US between an over-credentialed elite and America’s working class.” New York has handed a stinging defeat to congressman Jamaal Bowman, a member of the ‘Squad’ […]
Alan Rosenbaum Jerusalem Post, July 4, 2024 “We’re talking to those who don’t know anything, or a lot about Israel, who don’t hate it or love it.” ‘Most teens and young people in the United States don’t know a lot about Israel,” says Elena Yacov, executive director and president of TalkIsrael, the US- and Israel-based […]
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