May 18, 2021 — On Saturday I attended a protest outside the Israeli embassy in Kensington, reluctantly disguised by my mandatory mask. I was disheartened, but far from surprised, to encounter many images, banners and audible chants expressing the most vicious antisemitism. Among them were countless aggressive cries of “From...
The Myth of Arab Displacement in Eastern Jerusalem
Photo: David Shankbone/Wikimedia Commons In early May, a host of anti-Israel groups published a petition calling on the international community to “stop Israel’s forced displacement of Palestinians from East Jerusalem!” As expected, it was rife with misinformation and entirely devoid of context. The petition lists Sheikh Jarrah, Al Bustan, and Batin al...
Apartheid Libel is a Cover to Target Jews
Israel is not an apartheid state per any definition of the word. Apartheid refers to the legal, political and societal structure of discrimination that the white minority of South African citizens imposed on the black and Asian South African citizens from 1948 to 1994. Disenfranchisement was followed by segregation, violence,...
Noura Erakat’s Fairy Tales About Israel
Photo: Wikimedia Commons On March 2, 2021, the UC Santa Barbara Center for Middle East Studies hosted human rights attorney and professor Noura Erakat as a part of her international book tour. The Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis (CAMERA)’s campus department has thoroughly reviewed the book and refuted its falsehoods....
The Pursuit of Human Rights and the Myth of Israeli ‘Pinkwashing’
Photo: Nettadi/Wikimedia Commons On March 8 of this year, the so-called “human rights” group Palestinian Solidarity Committee (PSC) at York University in Toronto, Canada, launched an Israeli “Pinkwashing” campaign targeting the Jewish State with slanderous and baseless claims regarding its treatment of gays and other minorities. Throughout the campaign, false...
Apartheid Week Showers Canadian Students With Misinformation and Israel Demonization
During the 2021 Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW), anti-Zionist activists organized events on Canadian university campuses in which participants demonized Israel as an oppressive, apartheid regime. These claims are based solely on misinformation, if they are based on anything at all, and simply spread antisemitism and hatred. During an April 6 event sponsored...
Double Standards When it Comes to Jewish Self-Determination
On April 14, Jewish Voice for Peace posted a screenshot of a tweet on its Instagram page. Apparently intended to question Jewish indigeneity to Israel, the tweet began, “The strenuous insistence that we Jews are FROM Eretz Yisrael (‘indigenous’ etc) overlooks that over and over Torah reminds us we arrived there from...
Pittsburgh Universities Must Adopt the IHRA Definition of Antisemitism
Buried en masse and unmarked throughout Eastern and Western Europe, in Mount Herzl cemetery in Jerusalem and everywhere in between lay the victims of history’s longest and most lethal hatred: antisemitism. The evidence of its wrath on the Jewish people is an exhaustive study leaving an indelible stain on society....