You’d be mistaken if you were under the impression that “Pinkwashing” describes the sort of accident that might happen when mixing the wrong items in the laundry. This term, in fact, describes Israel’s alleged, contrived strategy to conceal ongoing violations of Palestinians’ human rights behind a false image of progress...
Yoseph Haddad Provides Important Arab Israeli Perspective to Aggies for Israel
If someone were to ask me what I believe is one of the most common misconceptions about Israel, it would unequivocally be homogeneity. Anti-Israel advocates on college campuses push this narrative because they argue Israel is an ethnic state of white Jewish Europeans who suppress the rights of any other...
Yoseph Haddad: Catalyzing Change in Discourse on the Israeli-Arab Conflict at UCLA
One year after UCLA hosted the National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP) conference, Students Supporting Israel (SSI) at UCLA has focused on remedying the damage caused by the former’s denouncing of Jewish self-determination in the name of Palestinian liberation through hosting Israeli-Arab peace activist Yoseph Haddad on campus. Haddad’s...
Hatred Comes to Ann Arbor
It’s no secret that widespread anti-Israel bigotry has infected college campuses around the world. And it seems that this toxicity will once again rear its head in Ann Arbor, Mich. From Jan. 25-26, the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) is slated to co-host the “2020 Youth for Palestine Conference” on the University of Michigan’s campus....
Are American Taxpayer Funds Fueling Anti-Israel Indoctrination?
The Middle East is one of the most complex and dynamic sectors on the planet. Almost daily, violent conflicts, regime changes, uprisings, terrorist attacks and foreign military campaigns pervade this region that boasts rich cultures and history. For those professionally engaged in global affairs, a well-rounded education about the Middle...
Exposing the Antisemitism Fueled by BDS
Photo: Sonia Ionescu/Flickr “The university campus scene has become a horror movie for Jewish students in North America, who are being harassed verbally and physically on a daily basis,” explained Dan Diker, former Secretary General of the World Jewish Congress, who currently works as Director of the Political Warfare Project...
Antisemitism is Alive and Well at York University in Canada
I found myself locked in a room listening to Israel Defense Forces’ veterans tell their stories while people outside chanted for my blood. For several hours, the protesters chanted, pounded on the walls and doors of the lecture hall, and intimidated participants trying to enter. While the event pressed on despite this...
The Hypocrisy of Those Who Seek to Boycott Israel
The Boycott, Divest and Sanctions zealots targeted yet another academic institution to promote their hate-filled agenda against the Jewish state. It began in August 2019, when a group of professors within the “Foundations of Political Theory” section of the American Political Science Association (APSA) proposed a resolution for an academic boycott and censoring of Israel. Just...