Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who served as a Christian Pastor in Germany during the 1930s, once said, “Silence in the face of evil is itself evil.” Bonhoeffer’s courageous actions later breathed existence into his words, as he tenaciously fought alongside other opponents of the Nazi regime to save Jewish families during the...
Diversity in the State of Israel
I am waiting for bus 240 to take me to work. I try to hide in the shade as the scorching sun hits my face. It’s 8:00 AM and 98 degrees Fahrenheit. Beside me stands a religious Muslim woman, wearing a hijab. To my right is an Orthodox Jewish rabbi...
The BDS Movement is Racist and Violent
Photo: Ted Eytan/Wikimedia Commons On January 27, the King’s College London student community invited Omar Barghouti, co-founder of the antisemitic Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, to speak on an anti-racism panel. BDS is currently the world’s largest pro-Palestinian activist movement, inspiring countless international marches and protests on university campuses....
NYU: Isolating and Silencing Pro-Israel Students and Speakers
On October 25th, 2019, the American Studies Program in the New York University Department of Social & Cultural Analysis (SCA) hosted anti-Zionist speaker Noura Erakat in a public event titled “Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine.” The stated goal of the lecture was to “show how the...
Blood Libels in the Name of “Radical Love” at Harvard
Antisemitism is a unique form of hatred. While most forms of bigotry involve hating those who are supposedly inferior, antisemitism “punches up,” deriding alleged Jewish plots to ruthlessly control and subjugate all other groups. To illustrate this, here is a quote from former Ku Klux Klan (KKK) grand wizard David...
A Message to Pro-Israel Students: Fight Back and Make the Case for Israel
On many college campuses today, anti-Zionist organizations like Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) incorrectly portray Israel as a racist, white supremacist country. The success of these groups can be attributed to their use of intersectional ideas (the “interconnected” nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender, and...
Stop Using Federal Money to Finance Anti-Zionism at US Colleges
Benjamin Franklin once said that “an investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” He was right — but what “interest” is the Federal government gaining from their funding of certain American universities’ Middle East Studies programs? If we go by Title VI of the Higher Education Act (Title VI/HEA) criteria, educators should...
What’s the Deal With all That Aid to Israel?
You’ve seen it on the news, in social media or on the Internet: a report on some U.S. policy recently enacted relating to Israel or an Israeli policy the media deemed necessary to headline. You look at a comments page and see messages about how America sends Israel $30 billion...
