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...
B’Tselem’s Anti-Israel Report Gets the Facts Wrong
On January 11, 2021, The San Diego Union-Tribune covered a report from an alleged “leading human rights group”, B’Tselem. This report asserts that the state of Israel is guilty of “apartheid.” For those who might not be aware, apartheid is defined by the International Criminal Court as an “institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and...
When BDS Groups and Iran Meet
(Photo: William Stadtwald Demchick/Wikimedia Commons) As the Jerusalem Post reported in March, an event occurred on January 18th titled “A Year to Confront Normalization.” As the name indicates, the event discussed efforts to oppose Arab states that normalized relations with Israel in accordance with the Abraham Accords. The chief organizer...
Nuance on Angela Davis Speaking at Northeastern
Photo: Monika M. Wahi/Wikimedia Commons An article published on Feb. 26 by Noah Colbert condemned a statement published by the Hillel advisory board. The statement condemned a planned event that featured Angela Davis as a speaker on the grounds that, among other things, Davis “is a staunch advocate of the BDS campaign” and “has…a...
The Double Standard of Campus Equality
Photo: Rick Dikeman at English Wikipedia/Wikimedia Commons When studying past dystopias in school, we assure ourselves that we would never have fallen for the same propaganda that brainwashed millions. We insist that we would have been abolitionists in America or would have protested against racism in apartheid South Africa. Legislation...
Accusations of Israeli Vaccine Discrimination Aren’t True
Photo: Amos Ben Gershom, Government Press Office (Israel)/Wikimedia Commons It seems like some people want to downplay Israeli success at all costs. Such is the case with Israel’s outstanding COVID-19 vaccination rollout. More than 60 percent of its population has received at least one dose of the vaccine. With this level of...
Jewish Voice for Peace and ‘Medical Apartheid’
Photo: Amos Ben Gershom, Government Press Office (Israel)/Wikimedia Commons The Pittsburgh branch of Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) recently circulated a petition that claims that Israel’s alleged refusal to vaccinate Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza is “medical apartheid” — even though these Palestinians are not citizens of Israel and live...
