“Israel’s apartheid against Palestinians: a cruel system of domination,” reads Amnesty International’s recent report accusing Israel of enforcing “a system of oppression and domination against the Palestinian people.” Human Rights Watch, too, claims that Israel is guilty of the “Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution.” Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch’s...
McGill’s student union’s Palestine policy has little to do with democracy or academic freedom, says a former student representative
The Students’ Society of McGill University (SSMU) recently made headlines after McGill threatened to sanction the association for adopting a “Palestine Solidarity Policy”—a misleadingly named, unconstitutional proposal to marginalize Jewish groups. Nevertheless, many undergraduates and staff continue to defend the manifesto as an example of student “democracy.” When McGill warned...
A Berkeley student group celebrates anti-Semitic violence
Bears for Palestine, a UC Berkeley student organization, hosted their fifth annual gala this past semester. The gala was “in honor of the unity intifada” — the latest in a series of violent Palestinian uprisings against Israel. Honoring an intifada disregards the violent history of past intifadas, downplays the trauma...
Statement: Falsehoods Exposed in Harvard Clinic’s Submission to the UN
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE BOSTON, MA, May 25, 2022— UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) and the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis (CAMERA) exposed numerous factual and legal errors in Harvard’s International Human Rights Clinic’s (IHRC) submission to the United Nations that slanderously accused Israel of being an...
Statement Regarding BDS and Commencement Remarks at CUNY School of Law
Recent incidents at the CUNY School of Law have been cause for enormous concern and doubt as to the school’s commitment to an inclusive, safe learning environment. In addition to a faculty council endorsement of the antisemitic Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions campaign on May 12th, on the following day, CUNY...
Statement Regarding Antisemitic CUNY School of Law Commencement Speaker
On May 13, 2022, the City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law featured an individual who has openly called for and celebrated violence and bigotry as one of the commencement ceremony speakers. Nerdeen Mohsen Kiswani was selected as one of two student speakers by the “Class of 2022”...
Why can’t we talk about Antisemitism?
Does Britain care about antisemitism? We profess to, and the value of protecting ethnic minorities is part of a desire for social justice that characterises western, liberal democracies. However, the entire thesis of Times’ Book of the Year “Jews Don’t Count“, by author David Baddiel, argues that Jews are often excluded from...
Statement Regarding Harvard Crimson Editorial Board Decision to Endorse BDS
The Crimson editorial board’s decision to endorse the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions campaign and pledge support to the extremist student organization, Harvard Palestine Solidarity Committee, should be deeply concerning for students, academics, and members of the Harvard community. The editorial board claims to have “wrestled” with Israel’s Apartheid Against Palestinians...
