Tag: anti-Israel Bias
The social geography of the BDS movement and anti-Semitism
Hillel Frisch’s highly original analysis of the popularity of BDS raises important questions about the character of this global “movement.” In brief, by examining the geography of Google queries on BDS and Israel’s legitimacy, Frisch concludes...
California curriculum shows the price of complacency about BDS
While many in the Jewish world have been sounding the alarm about the threat from the BDS movement, others have said the concern about this issue has been overstated. Some have pointed out that...
Jews in Belgium outraged after daily paper prints anti-Semitic, anti-Israel article
Belgium’s Jews are in an uproar and have filed a police complaint after a Belgian journalist wrote in an article that “there is no promised land, only stolen land.”
The journalist, Dimitri Verhulst, writing in...
On radio show, Ocasio-Cortez agrees with host, saying Israel is ‘very criminal, very unjust’
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) agreed on Tuesday with a New York radio host, saying that what’s happening in Israel is “very criminal.”
“Now you look around the globe and you have multiple corrupt governments working...
US Justice Department Summit seeks response to ‘cancer’ of Jew-hatred, anti-Semitism
The U.S. Department of Justice hosted its first “Summit on Combating Anti-Semitism” on Monday, where U.S. Attorney General William Barr opened the proceedings by calling Jew-hatred a “cancer.”
An invocation by Rabbi Meir Soloveitchik preceded...
Overshadowing the battle against anti-Semitism
The U.S. Department of Justice devoted a day to a summit this week about combating anti-Semitism. With other government agencies taking part, the event represented a significant commitment to deal with an issue of...
How anti-Zionists legitimize anti-Semitism
(The following are adapted remarks by JNS editor in chief Jonathan S. Tobin, which were delivered at the U.S. Department of Justice Summit on Combating Anti-Semitism on July 15, 2019.)
It’s an honor to be...
Eighty groups urge Cal State to reprimand anti-Israel professor for ‘hateful’ Facebook posts
Eighty civil-rights, religious and education organizations on Thursday wrote to California State University (CSU) chancellor Timothy White to alert him about San Francisco State University professor Rabab Abdulhadi’s “hateful” posting and to demand that...
Warren presidential campaign staffer comes under fire for past anti-Israel activism
Max Berger, a staffer for Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D-Mass.) 2020 presidential campaign, has come under fire for his past anti-Israel activism, including posting a now-deleted tweet from 2013 that he “would totally be friends...
Canadian political candidate ejected for comparing Israel to Nazi Germany
A candidate for the Canadian Parliament has been ejected from her party for previous anti-Israel comments, including comparing the Jewish state to Nazi Germany.
Rana Zaman, a social activist and Muslim who won in May...