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...
The lies and libels of Israeli Apartheid Week
Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) is an anti-Israel campaign hosted by Students for Justice in Palestine on college and university campuses that spreads falsehoods about the State of Israel and the Arab-Israeli conflict. The central claim of “Israeli Apartheid Week” is that Israel institutes apartheid against Palestinians and Arab citizens living...
Opening Duke to diverse speakers is critical to understanding Israel
I recently spearheaded an event on March 21st called “Hen Mazzig: Untold Stories”, in collaboration with CAMERA on Campus, Duke Students Supporting Israel, Duke Friends of Israel, and the American Sephardi Federation. Not only was this conversation educational and empowering, but it highlighted the value of enriching our campus with...
Jewish Students Stand Against Hate at UC Berkeley; Will the Staff Join Them?
On Wednesday, February 15, the Associated Students of the University of California (ASUC) Berkeley Senate met to deliberate on adopting SR-027, a bill proposed by Senator Shay Cohen. The bill calls for the ASUC to formally adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Association (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism. The IHRA definition...
Farha: Deceit as Art
Columbia University recently hosted a screening of the film Farha, following the recent trend of a host of other universities. Since its premiere at the Toronto Film Festival in 2021, the film has received significant backlash from the international Jewish community. It portrays the experience of a 14-year-old Palestinian girl...
Demystifying Israeli Apartheid Week
Shortly before Pesach, as we were all dealing with Sarachek and those dreaded midterms, Jewish students on other college campuses were dealing with Israeli Apartheid Week. For those of you not familiar with Israeli Apartheid Week because we live on a campus with an Israeli flag fluttering alongside the American,...
