David N. Myers teaches Jewish history at UCLA.
David N. Myers
By David N. Myers
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Opinion After the DC shooting, both pro-Palestine and pro-Israel groups are failing
The deaths of the murdered couple demand deeper introspection from both groups
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Opinion Trump wants campuses to fight antisemitism. Here’s how they should actually do it
One idea: Invest in Palestine studies as well as Israel studies
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Opinion Amnesty International makes it crystal clear: Israel is in desperate need of a reality check
Think what you will of genocide allegations; what's inarguable is that the divide between Israel and the world is growing
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Culture Remembering Arnold Band, a towering figure in Jewish studies
Band, who has died at 94, brought a classicist touch to his studies of Agnon, Kafka, Yehoshua and countless others
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Opinion I’m a UCLA professor. Why didn’t the administration stop last night’s egregious violence?
The university should have anticipated Tuesday night's chaos — but security personnel were nowhere to be found
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Opinion Vaccine hesitancy is not a uniquely Haredi problem
The first case of polio in years was recently revealed to be an Orthodox Jewish man, leading some to blame the community at large
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Opinion To uphold its founding promise, Israel must treat its Arab citizens as truly equal
The current cycle of violence between Israel and the Palestinians dispels two major illusions. The first regards the impact of the Abraham Accords of September 2020, which normalized relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain. In announcing the Accords, President Donald Trump boldly declared that “(a)fter decades of division and conflict, we…
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Opinion Yes, Palestinians have the right to speak about antisemitism
Earlier this week, a group of 122 prominent Palestinian and Arab scholars and intellectuals signed a petition about antisemitism. In it, they took on the question of whether anti-Zionism is inherently antisemitic, taking aim at the definition of antisemitism used by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. Among other things, the IHRA working definition holds that…
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