During COVID-19 self-isolation, like many others, I’ve been spending hours a day on social media. In particular, I’ve thoroughly explored the social media app TikTok — an app that has exploded in popularity in the last year. The app, which continuously streams curated 15 second to one-minute-long videos based on...
CAMERA Launches Campaign on Campuses to Celebrate Mizrahi Jews
Photo: National Photo Collection of Israel, Government Press Office/Wikimedia Commons The Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting (CAMERA) has launched a new campaign on campuses across the US to celebrate Mizrahi Jews and highlight their refugee experience. The campaign is in response to CAMERA’s concern that the story of Mizrahi Jews...
Witnesses Dispute Claims Made by Breaking the Silence’s Joel Carmel
Photo: Oren Rozen/Wikimedia Commons “Everyone was against us. Everything in the MSM [mainstream media] was anti-Israel, and we had a responsibility to show the other side,’” Joel Carmel, a former Israel Defense Forces soldier and now English content coordinator for the Breaking the Silence NGO, said of the zeitgeist characterizing...
STATEMENT Regarding Recent Antisemitic Lecture Sponsored by Cornell’s College of Architecture, Art, and Planning
In response to Cornell University’s College of Architecture, Art, and Planning’s (AAP) October 5 event with Brown University professor Ariella Azoulay that featured brazen dehumanization of Jewish immigrants to pre-state Israel, our international campus director Aviva Rosenschein made the following statement: “Unfortunately, many US universities, including some of the most...
America is not the Levant
Photo: Alexander Clegg/Detroit Jewish News Linking Black Lives Matter to Israeli affairs is inaccurate and dishonest. On Oct. 8, the Jewish News online published an op-ed by IfNotNow Detroit activists Rebecca Driker-Ohren and Zak Witus titled “Palestinian Lives Matter.” Of course, Palestinian lives matter — that is not in dispute. What one can dispute is Driker-Ohren...
STATEMENT Regarding Recent Demonization of Israel at Butler University
Photo: Brent Smith/Wikimedia Commons Common sense would suggest that demonizing the nation-state of the Jewish people is antithetical to the principles of “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.” Nevertheless, that’s exactly what Butler University’s Student Government Association’s (SGA) Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Board propagated through their co-sponsorship of last week’s “Boycott and...
Continuing a One-Way ‘Conversation’
Photo: Cantavestrella/Wikimedia Commons The latest of the SOAS University of London “Continuing the Conversations” online events series—“U.S. and Palestine: Shoot to Kill Policies and Transnational Resistance”—offered a platform for activist and professor Noura Erakat of Rutgers University to provide a heavily biased account as opposed to facilitating a conversation over...
Lecturer Tells SOAS Event That Israel Deploys Legal ‘Logic’ set out by Nazi Jurist
Photo: Cantavestrella/Wikimedia Commons An American academic has claimed the Israeli government’s treatment of Palestinians follows a theory set out by Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt. Speaking at an online event at the School of Oriental and African Studies (Soas) on 17 September, Professor Noura Erakat, an Assistant Professor at Rutgers University,...