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Opinion The Huge Irony That Jews for Cruz Can’t — or Won’t — Admit
Republican Jews are engaging in a to back Ted Cruz as the likely alternative to Donald Trump, but they seem to be missing the irony of their actions: They’re backing a candidate largely because he is pro-Israel, when his real motivation for taking that stance is that it fulfills a New Testament prophecy in which…
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Opinion How Long Can Distinction Between Anti-Zionism and Anti-Semitism Survive?
In adopting a statement distinguishing anti-Zionism from anti-Semitism, the Regents of the University of California have threaded a tiny needle with minute care. After intense public debate and lobbying from all sides, the Regents declared on March 24 that anti-Semitism had “no place” on its many campuses, but declined to issue a broad condemnation of…
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Breaking News ‘It’s Palestine, Not Israel,’ Belgian Hotline Operator Tells Jewish Caller
An operator in Belgium’s federal hotline on the terrorist attacks in Brussels told a Jewish caller that Israel does not exist and is in fact called Palestine. The call Thursday to the Belgian Interior Ministry’s hotline was recorded and the audio file posted on the website of Joods Actueel, a Belgian Jewish monthly. In it,…
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News CUNY Under the Anti-Semitism Microscope
The poster on the door of the Hillel at John Jay College of Criminal Justice reads “Safe Zone.” Above it hangs an Israeli flag, an American flag and another sign: “Israel wants peace.” Take two steps down the narrow hallway on the ground floor of this Manhattan campus, and there is another, very different message….
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Breaking News UCal Vote: Anti-Zionism Does Not Equal Religious Bigotry
SAN FRANCISCO – The University of California’s regents declared on Wednesday they would not tolerate anti-Semitism on campus but rejected a proposal to equate anti-Zionism with religious bigotry, as they tried to defuse tensions between pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian students. The statement of principles, approved unanimously by the university’s governing board, stems from concerns among Jewish…
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Breaking News When Does Anti-Zionism Become Anti-Semitism?
LOS ANGELES – The governing board of California’s flagship public university system is to vote next week on a statement condemning anti-Zionism as a form of anti-Jewish bigotry, a proposal sparking sharp faculty debate over the line between free speech and intolerance. The controversy playing out at the University of California reflects a broader clash…
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Opinion How Both Sides of BDS Debate Get Oberlin Anti-Semitism Wrong
Even when the BDS debate reached a crescendo at Oberlin College in 2013, I never felt unsafe on campus. It’s true that as an Israeli-American junior, and as co-founder and co-chair of the college’s J Street U chapter, I was uncomfortable publicly identifying as a Zionist. But I had access to peers, administrators and college…
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Opinion This Anti-BDS Video Is Pure Hilarity — and Accidental Genius
(CORRECTED BELOW) News flash: the BDS movement does not, in fact, urge supporters to shoot Dannon yogurt containers with rifles. That, however, is how it’s depicted in a four-minute video titled “BDS or the Bible.” Social media users are already having a field day with the video — Sarah Schulman dubs it “a cross between…
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