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...
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...
