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”...
Antisemitism is spreading wings
Anti-Zionist organizations, which supposedly advocate for human rights, incite hatred against Jews around the world with horrific results.This is especially widespread on Twitter, where the spread of lies is uniquely prevalent. On November 18th of 2021, Students for Justice in Palestine at the University of Illinois at Chicago (SJP UIC)...
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...
HOOP Stands Against Palestinians
For Harvard Out of Occupied Palestine (HOOP), degrading Israel is more important than supporting Palestinians. They don’t care that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) abandon airstrikes, drop warning leaflets, call and text residents and roof-knock to avoid civilian casualties or that Israel uses the most precise rocketry technology available to...
UMass Student Newspaper Spreads Lies About Israel and Defends Terrorism
Anti-Israel activists often draw unreasonable and overly simplistic comparisons between the Arab-Israeli conflict and social causes from police brutality to climate justice. Such conflations are often misleading and intellectually dishonest. A recent column in The Daily Collegian titled Palestinian Perspectives: The double standards of war by Ruya Hazeyen proved no...
Holocaust Inversion: Unmasking the False Comparisons of Palestinians to the Holocaust
On April 12, 1945, General Eisenhower visited Ohrdruf, a subcamp of Buchenwald. Upon his return to the United States, he emphasized the importance of spreading the truth about the Holocaust: I made the visit deliberately, in order to be in a position to give first-hand evidence of these things if...
Don’t Believe the Lies: Zionism is a Movement of Peace
One of the biggest lies ever told about Zionism is that the subjugation or oppression of the Palestinians is somehow a central tenet of the movement. Jewish Voice for Peace, an anti-Zionist organization with chapters at several universities, posits that “the Zionism that took hold and stands today is a...