The self-proclaimed Jewish-American “progressive” organization IfNotNow hosted a discussion on Jan. 27 about “how the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism has been destroying the progressive movement.” The word “discussion,” may, in fact, be too generous a term for what was, in reality, a diatribe of misinformation. An address by Taher Herzallah, associate director of outreach...
For IfNotNow, Coronavirus Just Another Hook For Anti-Israel Activism
Photo: Israel Defense Forces/Wikimedia Commons For many around the world, the coronavirus pandemic is understandably cause for grave concern. But while some worry about what COVID-19 could do to their community, others appear more interested in what it might do for their cause. These dogmatic activists look to seize on the scare by, essentially,...
IfNotNow Spreads More Lies About Israel
Photo source: IfNotNow on Facebook The trope that Jews (or in this convenient case, the Jewish state) are the cause of another people’s suffering is not a new one. In fact, New York Times author Bari Weiss has traced it back to the time of Jesus’ crucifixion in Roman-occupied Jerusalem, and explains:...
IfNotNow Proves Its Anti-Israel Bona Fides
Amid the recent eviction of a Palestinian family from the neighborhood of Silwan, East Jerusalem, the radical left-wing organization IfNotNow pleaded with their community through Twitter to “…stand against the Judaization of East Jerusalem.” Ignoring the particular history and presence of the Jewish people in that region, IfNotNow subconsciously invoked a term...
Message From an Israeli Soldier: The IDF Values and Protects Human Life; Terrorists Don’t
On May 2, Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) fired a barrage of rockets into Israel, injuring three civilians in Sderot. Hamas claims that these attacks are in response to convicted Islamic Jihad leader Khader Adnan, dying of a self-imposed hunger strike. Adnan refused Israeli medical treatment on numerous occasions, and, in...
“Apartheid Architecture”: Ohio State SJP Criticism of Israel’s Life-Saving Border Walls
On January 31st, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Ohio State University (OSU) presented at the Ohio Union on what they call “apartheid architecture”. In a grossly misinformed presentation, two architecture students discussed Israel’s physical security measures and borders, which they claimed to serve the sole purpose of oppressing...
“The Wrong Kind of Jew”: How the Erasure of Mizrahi Jews Shifts the Narrative about the Jewish People
This November, many within the Jewish community observed Mizrahi Heritage Month, a time dedicated to bringing visibility to a historically underrepresented Jewish demographic in the Western world, the Jews of North Africa and the Middle East. After the Jewish people were exiled from their ancestral homeland of Israel and entered...
‘It’s Become Difficult on Some Campuses to Get a Pro-Israel Opinion Published’
Campus media outlets have become a new front in the fight against Jew-hatred in recent years, amid a global surge of antisemitism that has hit colleges and universities particularly hard. To raise awareness of this pressing issue, the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis (CAMERA) and Combat...