Tag: Antisemitism
Saudi Arabia removes anti-Israel material from schoolbooks
Saudi Arabia has removed practically all antisemitism and anti-Israel material from its schoolbooks, in a major shift from the past and a harbinger of a better future, a study released Tuesday found.
The study, conducted...
Hamas supporters’ anti-US agenda opened eyes at UNC
When anti-Israel protesters at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill hurled slurs and objects at Jewish students, it drew little attention.
Late last month, when those same protesters ripped down the American flag...
Knesset advances bill to commemorate Iraq’s Farhud pogrom
Israeli lawmakers on Monday advanced a government proposal to designate June 1 as a day to commemorate the Farhud, the 1941 pogrom in Iraq coordinated by Palestinian leader Haj Amin al-Hussein.
The Commemoration Day for the...
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...
At JPAC California summit, state leaders vow support for Jewish community
Some 500 Jewish leaders, community members and college students from across the state of California turned out to the Jewish Public Affairs Committee of California (JPAC) Capitol Summit, held at the Sheraton Grand Hotel...
‘Perfect time’ to return to Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’ on 120th Bloomsday
Cultural pilgrims flock to Dublin annually on June 16 to celebrate the inside-baseball, literary “holiday” Bloomsday, which marks the single day upon which James Joyce’s 1922 novel Ulysses is set.
“Hands up how many people have read...
The inversion of victim and victimizer
The surge in antisemitism across the U.S. and elsewhere has once again thrown into sharp relief the pervasive and perverse loathing to which the Jewish people are subject.
This hate bubbles just below the surface,...
10 pro-Palestinian lies told by the ‘useful idiots’
Anybody who’s been to college can understand the allure of a wild party on the quad: Everybody singing together, wearing cool costumes and flipping off the establishment.
Unfortunately, the theme of the riotous parties we’ve...
Rep. Kean leads communal roundtable discussion to counter hate in New Jersey
Rep. Tom Kean Jr. (R-N.J.) led a meeting of Jewish leaders, elected officials and students on May 13 in an effort to develop plans to counter rising antisemitism.
Kean invited constituents from the state’s 7th Congressional District.
“There...
Jewish students sue Haverford, alleging antisemitic civil rights violations
A Jewish group at Haverford College in Pennsylvania filed a lawsuit on Monday in federal court alleging that the highly-ranked private liberal arts school violated students’ civil rights and created a pervasively hostile environment for Jews on campus.
The...