Last October, an Israeli couple bought some jewelry at Paris Orly Airport. Leaving the store, the two noticed a strange and seemingly innocuous error on their receipt: it stated that their destination – Israel’s Ben-Gurion Airport, located in northern Lod just 12 miles away from Tel Aviv’s city center –...
ClarkU Hillel President: Response to Grynheim
Last week, Leah Grynheim, a senior at Indiana University Bloomington, published her first blog post for The Times of Israel: “Hillel excludes pro-Israel narratives.” Grynheim condemned the acts of Hillels across the nation, claiming that the organization has “failed to uphold their mission statement,” and she specifically mentioned my college, Clark...
Statement on Recent Antisemitic Events at Brooklyn College
On March 22nd, YPA Brooklyn College and the Brooklyn College Islamic Society & Muslim Women’s Educational Initiative held a vigil memorializing the 50 innocent Muslim worshippers murdered in Christchurch, New Zealand on March 15th. Over the last few months, too many innocent lives have been taken by terrorists who shamelessly...
J’accuse — France’s Antisemitism Problem
“Happy like a Jew in France.” This slogan was once the refrain of many persecuted Jewish communities in Europe, who saw the French nation as a haven for the “people of the book.” France was the first European country to emancipate the Jews, granting them citizenship and equal rights. Napoleon...
Commentary: Ilhan Omar’s Critique of AIPAC Antisemitic
Topics surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and similar issues have been the subject of much discourse during recent months on Ithaca College’s campus. The discourse follows comments made by U.S. Congresswoman Ilhan Omar concerning American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) that were deemed to be antisemitic in substance, if not in tone....
J Street’s New Trip to Israel Pushes a Political Agenda
After a year of protesting Jewish and pro-Israel institutions for their refusal to demand that Birthright Israel incorporate Palestinian voices during trips to Israel, J Street is now launching its inaugural “Let Our People Know Trip.” The trip’s itinerary is formulated according to the notion that: “omission and erasure of Palestinian perspectives...
Do York University Students Truly Understand BDS?
BDS is being pushed on York University students once again. Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) is a an antisemitic, global movement that promotes and supports various forms of boycott including against specific Israeli companies, as well as companies that do business with Israel. As with other movements like Students for...
Reacting to Those Committed to Our Destruction
On Sunday, November 11th, when many in the US were celebrating and appreciating the veterans who served and died for our country, an IDF-led secret surveillance mission in the Gaza Strip was compromised. Hamas fighters discovered the undercover soldiers and engaged a firefight. Knowing their lives were in danger, the...