In the past few weeks, there has been a lot of news about the Duke-UNC Consortium for Middle East Studies (CMES) and how the department allocates its funds from the Department of Education. The CMES department received Title VI funding for all its activities, some of which were clearly anti-Israel and antisemitic....
Letter to the Editor: ‘Pinkwashing’ Misrepresents LGBTQ Rights in Israel
Dear Editor, Following Shai DeLuca-Tamasi’s visit to Tulane this past month, three students wrote an article in the Hullabaloo discussing LGBTQ+ rights in Israel. In their article, the authors grossly misrepresented the message delivered by DeLuca- Tamasi and presented misleading arguments about LGBTQ+ rights in the Jewish state. The authors overlooked important...
Apartheid Here, Apartheid There, Apartheid Truly Everywhere
“Up, up, down, down, right, left, and all around.” That is what supporters of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement (BDS) think when they think about Israel. Yet, Israeli-Arabs have served in the Israeli Supreme Court, Knesset (parliament), military, and national police force. Following the national elections in September 2019,...
Propagating the False Narrative That Zionists are ‘Anti-Palestinian’
Let me tell you how my guilt was decided before my case was ever presented. I went with my colleagues to hear Noura Erakat speak at Harvard Law School. Noura is a Palestinian-American lawyer and “human-rights” activist who vehemently opposes Zionism and any form of Jewish self-determination. I sat quietly...
A Beginner’s Guide to the SJP National Conference
In a surprise to nobody, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) announced that its upcoming national conference, set to commence on November 1, will be held on the University of Minnesota Campus in Minneapolis (UMN). Why is this not a surprise? Because Minneapolis happens to be the district of antisemitic...
Noura Erakat’s Sordid Cynicism
Listening to lawyers and law students speak among themselves about the law and its ultimate value can be disconcerting. They are a cynical bunch. For some lawyers, the law itself has little, if any inherent integrity or meaning. For these lawyers, the law can be used to advance the interest...
British and Israeli Students Enhance Campus Strategy at CAMERA’s Annual Conference
The CAMERA on Campus ninth annual international leadership conference was held from the evening of August 11-16 in Boston, USA. Close to a dozen UK students and a number of Israeli students were in attendance this year. The Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis (CAMERA), was founded...
New Jersey Strives to Protect Jewish Students on Campus
How does one distinguish antisemitism from legitimate criticism of Israel? The answer is rather simple: One can criticize Israel and its government just as one would any other nation and its government. Far too often, however, Israel is relentlessly demonized on college campuses, which frequently devolves into harassment of Jewish...
