When Zebulon Simantov stepped foot outside Afghanistan in 2021, fleeing Taliban pressures with the help of American-Israeli businessman and philanthropist, Moti Kahana, the known Jewish population of Afghanistan reached zero. Simantov has spent the last 3 years in Istanbul but has recently arrived in Israel, his new home. Simantov’s title as the...
Betrayal of students at Yale University’s Jewish home on campus
As former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett spoke on the second floor of the Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale University on Jan. 21, students affiliated with Yalies4Palestine and Jews for a Ceasefire commandeered the main lobby. There, in the center of Yale’s Jewish communal building, protesters chanted...
Oberlin College Course Uses Antisemitism as Sword and Shield
A description of a course beginning this week at Oberlin College, my alma mater, reads: “Popular conceptions of the relationship between Jews and power tend either to adopt (in the case of sympathetic accounts) a view of Jews as perennial victims or (in the case of hostile/antisemitic accounts) a view...
Behind the Mask of ‘Pro-Peace’ Groups in Israel
Rula Daood and Alon-Lee Green, the Israeli national directors of the Standing Together movement, were included in the Time 100 Next list for 2024 due to their extensive pacifist activities, such as the national campaign “The North Demands Peace – Deal Now.” As part of this campaign, the organization’s activists hung billboards in northern...
CAMERA on Campus UK’s Letter on UEL’s Consultation on Antisemitism Statement
Dear Vice-Chancellor Broderick, Find the below that we wish to submit for the consultation on UEL’s antisemitism statement. CAMERA UK expresses serious concern regarding UEL’s sudden decision to review its adoption of the IHRA working definition of antisemitism. In the UEL statement announcing the consultation, it is evident that this...
The ‘Week of Rage’ at Concordia University
Jewish students worldwide were bracing themselves for what was to happen on campuses on October 7, 2024, a year after Palestinian terrorists led by Hamas waged the deadliest attack on Jews since the Holocaust — slaughtering babies, committing sexual violence, burning whole families alive, and taking 240 civilians hostage. Jewish students at Concordia University were no...
Our history stolen: How October 7 is being taken away from us
We tend to think of history as a clear sequence of events, but the reality is messier. What we consider significant about the past is almost always shaped by hindsight. Major headlines can fade to footnotes, while seemingly minor events emerge as turning points once we understand their full context....
Countering Misinformation: Israel Advocacy and Open Dialogue at Oral Roberts University.
Across the country, university campuses have been bombarded with antisemitic protests and anti-Israel activism. At times, threats and harassment coming from these provocateurs follow students and professors who stand up for the Zionist cause that Jews deserve to continue living in their own country on land sacred to their culture....
