Tag: anti-Zionism
Progressives ‘celebrating’ Chanukah
This year’s first Chanukah candle will be lit on the evening of Wednesday, Dec. 25, in a remarkable ecumenical link-up of Christmas festivities and the Jewish celebration of candles and latkes, sufganiyot and the singing of...
Jewish anti-Zionists can’t be part of our ‘big tent’ community
Historical memory lies at the heart of most Jewish holiday commemorations. During Sukkot, for example, Jews daily welcome ushpizin—“guests” or ancestors, including the patriarchs of Judaism—into their sukkahs, which themselves are a remembrance of the...
Anti-Israel activists splash red paint on Spanish writer
Protesters hurled paint at a well-known pro-Israel writer in Spain on Tuesday while she was giving a lecture at a center of higher learning.
Pilar Rahola, a former lawmaker, resumed her talk shortly after the...
Upstate New York mosque issues apology for guest imam’s anti-Jewish rant
A mosque in Rockland County, N.Y., issued an apology this week after a guest cleric called for Allah to “destroy the Zionist Jews” and “liberate the Al-Aqsa Mosque” in the course of delivering an...
Anti-Israel activists protest London performance of ‘Fiddler on the Roof’
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators targeted patrons near a performance of “Fiddler on the Roof” in Regent’s Park Open Air Theater in London on Monday, accusing the audience of being “Zionist.”
The show went on, despite anti-Israel protesters waving Palestinian...
Why the pro-Hamas demonstrations are different and more dangerous
Over the last eight months, Jewish communities around the world have been both intimidated and repulsed by the surge in pro-Hamas demonstrations.
We’ve all seen the signs and heard the slogans variously telling us to...
Americans for peace now broke its promises
The decision by Americans for Peace Now to publicly endorse suspending U.S. military aid to Israel directly violates the promises it made in order to gain admittance to the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish...
ADL: Reported antisemitic incidents up 140% in 2023, shattering records
In part due to the unleashing of Jew-hatred in the aftermath of Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre, antisemitism in the United States spiked by a record 140%, according to figures released by the Anti-Defamation League...
Hebrew U suspends professor who accused Israel of genocide
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem suspended a professor on Tuesday who the previous day accused Israel of committing genocide in Gaza, among other inflammatory remarks.
Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, holder of the Lawrence D. Biele Chair in Law at...
Knesset votes against ousting Cassif for support of ICJ ‘genocide’ trial
The Knesset on Monday voted against removing lawmaker Ofer Cassif over his public support for the charges of genocide that South Africa lodged against Israel in the International Court of Justice.
Eighty-five MKs voted to oust...