When the news of the Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting appeared, like most Jews, I was disheartened. Once again, vile hatred towards us has become so serious that it’s led to real violence. However, the news came as no surprise. When times are tough, when things go wrong, the caricature of the...
Analysts Warn of Anti-Israel, ‘Negative Feedback Loop’ in American High Schools, Colleges
Anti-Israel lesson plans are fast becoming a problem in high schools across the country and even in unlikely places like the heavily Jewish populated town of Newton, Mass. Anti-Israel lesson plans are fast becoming a problem in high schools across the country and even in unlikely places like the heavily...
Biased Education and the Perpetuation of Conflict
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has become a subjective discussion in our universities. These academic inconsistencies have posed a significant danger to young minds, as inaccuracies seem to be abundant in our classrooms. These conscious or unconscious attempts to distort the historical component of the conflict have certainly perpetuated anti-Zionism in some...
The Palestine Solidarity Campaign’s New Offensive on British Jewish Students
At my own institution, there has been a continuous anti-Israel presence on campus this term. Jewish students returned to their campuses this autumn to an intellectual battlefield far more divisive than we’ve seen for some time. Just as Jewish and Zionist student leaders attended conferences and training across the world...
It’s Time to Condemn Terrorists and Groups that Support Them
It seems that everyone was eager to call out the anti-Semitic killer who attacked Jews in Pittsburgh for what he was: a terrorist. This wasn’t hard for people to do since they know what a white-supremacist bigot looks like. Unfortunately, countless Americans—Jews included—have somehow missed the memo that all Jew-killers...
‘Bridging the Gulf’ in the Middle East
As Israel celebrates diplomatic success in the Gulf, are we seeing a more unified Middle East? Israel is the only Jewish state in a region made up almost entirely of Arab nations, and since Israel’s independence from Great Britain in 1948, allies in the Arab Middle East have been few...
The Depths to Which BDS Will Go on Irish Campuses
After previously writing on Ireland’s downward spiral into the welcoming arms of the BDS movement, I regret to report that this slump is only gaining speed as the hour goes by. What has transpired in recent days has not been a shift in policy; rather, what has occurred has been a radicalization...
Reflection on Yves Engler’s Speech at Carleton
On November 29th, political activist and former vice president of Concordia University’s student union Yves Engler was invited by Carleton University’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine to speak about his thoughts on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Canada’s relationship to it. I was fortunate enough to be able to...