Photo: Orin Zebest/Wikimedia Commons Fresh off the heels of their failed attempt to host convicted Palestinian terrorist Leila Khaled for an online event, the Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Studies Department (AMED) at San Francisco State University (SFSU) held a November 29 panel titled “From Colonization to Solidarity: Narratives of Defeat...
Erasure of Faces and Facts: Anti-Zionism at Cornell University
This past fall, Ariella Aisha Azoulay, a guest lecturer from Brown University, was invited to Cornell University’s architecture department to speak to students. Azoulay gave a biased, anti-Zionist presentation titled “Palestine Is There, Where It Has Always Been.” In it, she showed photographs of the early pioneers of the State...
Leeds Palestine Society Glorifies Terrorism on Campus
Photo: Rehgina/Wikimedia Commons Last semester, Apartheid Off Campus, in conjunction with the Palestinian Solidarity Group (PSG) at the University of Leeds (UoL), held an event featuring Palestinian terrorist Leila Khaled. The event was met with much opposition from both the Leeds Jewish Society (JSoc) and the Student Union, both of whom felt that...
From 150,000 to None: The Jews of Iraq
Photo: Levi Clancy/Wikimedia Commons Nearly 3,000 years ago, after the destruction of Jerusalem’s First Temple, the Jewish people were forced to disperse, with many ending up in Babylon, now modern-day Iraq. Throughout the years, the Jews of Iraq maintained their Jewish identity through culture and traditions, such as observing Shabbat and...
Northwestern University’s ‘Not Cops’ Trigger Controversy on Campus
Photo: Amerique/Wikimedia Commons Was Northwestern University’s campus group “NU Community Not Cops” being antisemitic when it called Northwestern’s Jewish president a pig? Some say no, but there is a lot more to the story. NU Community Not Cops protesters rebuffed claims that it was antisemitic to call President Morton Schapiro,...
‘As Long as Hamas Actively Seeks to Destroy Israel, There Will Not be Peace’
Photo: IDF Spokesperson’s Unit/Wikimedia Commons In November 2020, Hamas politburo chief Ismail Haniyeh called on supporters at the First Electronic Pioneers Conference for money and weapons to “liberate” Jerusalem and combat a supposed United States-Israeli scheme to dismiss the Palestinians. Haniyeh said, “We want to shift from a strategy of...
For One Campus Student Group, Who’s the Real Victim?
Photo: Monika M. Wahi/Wikimedia Commons In mid-November of 2020, the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter at Northeastern University in Boston promoted terrorist propaganda. In a since-deleted Instagram post, SJP bragged that they would be “reading through different strategies and theory of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine [PFLP]”...
An olive branch or an empty promise?
Photo: Brent Smith/Wikimedia Commons In a world full of instability, where everything feels uncertain, we should work together to build up one another. In difficult times like these, we should rally behind principles we know to be universal truths: equality, peace and love for our fellow man. Instead, we see...