Every year, McGill University’s Jewish Studies department offers at least one seminar on Jewish life in the Islamic world. These classes are important: most people know little about Mizrahim (Jews from the Middle East and North Africa, a region often abbreviated as MENA). But in highlighting Mizrahi/Sephardi identities, some academics—sometimes...
The Demonization of Israel on BU’s Campus and Its Impacts
There is a disturbing trend on college and university campuses: anytime an event on campus celebrating Jewish or Israeli identity is organized, anti-Zionist students groups like Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) verbally abuse and publicly accosting Zionist students and guest speakers, accusing them of “ethnic cleansing,” “colonialism” and “apartheid.”...
Stand for the Truth: Colleges Nationwide Must Stand Against SJP
Students for Justice in Palestine chapters around the country have recently been hosting lectures entitled “Palestine 101”. These “Palestine 101” events have occurred at Columbia University, UVA, Berkeley Law, and CUNY John Jay, to name a few institutions. With antisemitism rising around the country, it is incredibly concerning for Students...
Debunking the ‘apartheid wall’ at UCLA
From April 3rd to April 7th, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) hosted their annual “Palestine Liberation Week.” also known as “Israeli Apartheid Week”. SJP is a campus group supported by the radical organization American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), an anti-Israel organization whose members regularly express support for Hamas, a...
Isreality Tours the UK: Israeli Students Take Their Activism Abroad
From February 28th to March 5th, I flew to the United Kingdom as a delegate of “Isreality,” a student group supported by CAMERA on Campus and Nefesh Yehudi. The purpose of the delegation was to bring Israeli and UK students together and present them with tools to combat anti-Zionist propaganda,...
Exposing William & Mary Professor’s Toxic Anti-Israel Bias
Professor Stephen Sheehi, who serves as the Sultan Qaboos bin Said Chair of Middle East Studies at William & Mary, has made several misleading assertions regarding the history of the State of Israel and the Arab-Israeli conflict. It is necessary to highlight and respond to these inaccurate claims. On February...
Who gets to talk about Israel?
Israel is an apartheid, genocidal regime and anyone who disagrees with that reading of history is a white-supremacist bigot promoting violence who should not be allowed onto campus. Sound familiar? This radical reading of history, wholly unsupported by any evidence, is the standard vitriol that many university students are exposed...
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...
