Photo: Amos Ben Gershom, Government Press Office (Israel)/Wikimedia Commons It seems like some people want to downplay Israeli success at all costs. Such is the case with Israel’s outstanding COVID-19 vaccination rollout. More than 60 percent of its population has received at least one dose of the vaccine. With this level of...
Jewish Voice for Peace and ‘Medical Apartheid’
Photo: Amos Ben Gershom, Government Press Office (Israel)/Wikimedia Commons The Pittsburgh branch of Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) recently circulated a petition that claims that Israel’s alleged refusal to vaccinate Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza is “medical apartheid” — even though these Palestinians are not citizens of Israel and live...
No, Israel is not an Apartheid State
On February 9, 2021, the University of California Irvine (UCI) student government passed a Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) resolution against Israel in a vote of 19-3. The resolution touted the libel-filled reporting of the Israeli NGO B’tselem, which makes use of demonstrably false terms such as “apartheid” and “Jewish supremacy” to...
טרור, לא אקטיביזם: מבט מקרוב על סמידון
בחודש פברואר 2021, שר הביטחון הישראלי בני גנץ הגדיר באופן רשמי את הארגון “סולידריות עם האסיר הפלסטיני – סמידון” כארגון טרור בקשריו עם החזית העממית לשחרור פלסטין, שהיא בעצמה הוגדרה כארגון טרור על ידי ארצות הברית, האיחוד האירופי , ישראל וקנדה. על פי נתוני הלשכה הלאומית למימון טרור, ארגון זה...
Press Release: CAMERA on Campus Launches Zionism Campaign
For decades, Zionism – the belief in the Jewish people’s right to self-determination in their ancestral homeland – has been under attack. Although the United Nations Generally Assembly’s infamous 1975 resolution slurring Zionism as “racism” was later repealed, its hateful and fallacious presumptions live on, especially on college campuses. Student-run...
Exposing the Lies and Hate of the BDS Movement
In a conversation with American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) on March 31st Omar Barghouti appears to have charged Jews as thieves, settler colonialists, racists, purveyors of apartheid, ethnic cleansers, supremacists, and murderers — or at least the 95 percent of American Jews who support Israel. Barghouti is one of the leaders of...
Terrorism, Not Activism: A Closer Look at Samidoun
In February 2021, Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz officially designated the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network as a terrorist organization for its ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), itself considered a terrorist organization in the United States, the European Union, Israel and Canada. According to the Israeli National Bureau...
The Truth About Israel’s ‘Vaccine Apartheid’
Photo: Amos Ben Gershom, Government Press Office (Israel)/Wikimedia Commons A recent Lawyers Without Borders blogpost on UCL Reflect supports allegations of “vaccine apartheid” against Israel, claiming that Israel has a legal obligation to vaccinate Palestinian citizens in Gaza and the West Bank. At the time of writing this article, requests...
