(JTA) — Boston’s Jewish Community Relations Council passed a resolution saying its members cannot partner with Jewish groups that are anti-Zionist, setting up a showdown with one of its members, the local branch of the Workmen’s Circle. The resolution, approved on Thursday evening, states that working with Jewish anti-Zionist groups, specifically by co-sponsoring events or…
This past weekend, Americans were devastated and heartbroken by the deadliest attack against the American Jewish community in history. Israeli officials journeyed to Pittsburgh to stand in solidarity with the Tree of Life Congregation. Flags around the country were lowered to half mast, and thousands gathered at synagogues and common spaces across the globe to…
In Tucson, another sign of division on the left
Jewish community tensions over the Durham, North Carolina city council’s April vote to ban police officers from educational programs in Israel spilled over last week after police escorted two members of the group Jewish Voice for Peace out of the Jewish Community Center when they tried to hand out flyers criticizing local Jewish leaders. The…
In April, Barnard College’s student body and George Washington University’s student government both voted to encourage their respective Boards of Trustees to divest from companies affiliated with Israel. They joined over thirty other campuses who have passed similar resolutions aligned with the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement. The BDS movement was founded in 2005 and…
The Anti-Defamation League is the world’s leading institution fighting anti-Semitism. But in 2018, it has fielded staunch criticism from the left as well as the right. The situation on the left came to a head in April, after two black men were arrested in a Philadelphia Starbucks for no reason other than being black. Starbucks…
You can find some of our other opinions about the conflict in Gaza here and here. Sixty Palestinians in Gaza were killed by Israel in one day this week, along with over 2,400 injured. As each day passes, the public justifications for their deaths have grown louder and louder: that the killed were members of…
As the end of the school year approaches and the temperature rises, so are tensions at the most Jewish college in the United States. Last week, Barnard College students voted in a referendum to divest from eight companies that do business in Israel. Anti-occupation groups were exultant; pro-Israel organizations devastated. Then the administration unilaterally rejected…
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