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 The Pursuit of Human Rights and the Myth of Israeli Pinkwashing By: Austin Pellizzer On March 8, 2021, the so-called ‘human rights group’ Palestine Solidarity Collective (PSC) at York University in Toronto, Canada, launched an “Israeli Pinkwashing” campaign on its Facebook page targeting the Jewish State with...
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....
Is Social Media the Most Dangerous Weapon Against Israel?
In 2021, social media is a weapon; it has the power to politicize and the power to spread disinformation. And tens of thousands of students across the US — maybe more — have successfully used social media to find their anti-Israel voices over the past week. The situation between Israel...
To Combat Hate, We Must Set Definitions Straight: Defining Antisemitism on Campus
On college campuses, who should define antisemitism? Any member of the student body, or the targets of the world’s oldest hatred themselves? At City, University of London (UCL), students seem to have made up their minds. In response to a large surge in antisemitism, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA)...
The Abraham Accords: A Move Toward the Future
Photo: U.S. Embassy Jerusalem/Wikimedia Commons Over the last year, we’ve seen substantial shifts in the Middle East. Many Arab states have established diplomatic relations with the state of Israel. While this advancement is often seen as a positive, many anti-Zionist groups falsely believe these developments to be harmful not only...