anti-zionism

This past semester, I attended an event hosted by the campus organization Harvard Out of Occupied Palestine (HOOP). There is no doubt that it would be impossible to unravel all the untruths uttered during this event in one short article, yet there is no question about what the overall message...

A recent webinar hosted by Bard University Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and Ohio State University SJP featured George Mason and Rutgers professor Noura Erakat, who spoke on Zionism and the State of Israel. Throughout the webinar, Erakat made outlandish and blatantly false remarks, such as labeling Zionism a...

The campus of a twenty-first century university is a marketplace. Students from far and wide come to exchange, display, and trade their most valuable currency: their opinions. Woven with real fabrics and embroidery from ancient history, these opinions are constructed from each student’s most valuable “textile” – their personalized economy...

Photo: Rob Farrow/geograph.org.uk King’s College London (KCL) has unfortunately become one of the largest hubs of hostile anti-Zionism in the United Kingdom. It’s hugely popular Palestinian Society has seemingly become the most active student organization of its kind in the capital. Although I do not believe it is problematic for...

Photo: Jeffrey Beall/Flickr Last November, a few members of the Occidental (Oxy) College football team posed for a picture with an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) flag, sharing it on their personal Instagram feeds. The pictures were captioned “@oxyfootball stands in solidarity with our Israeli brothers in their fights against terror @IDF” and...

A Palestinian student who was elected this month as vice president of the student government at the Newark campus of Rutgers University has a history of posting anti-Israel and antisemitic content on social media. Carolyn Assaf, a pre-med student, once posted a since-deleted 15-second cartoon video on Instagram of what...

There is a deeply disturbing pattern within the anti-Zionist movement of devaluing Jewish and Israeli lives. Wholly convinced of the irredeemably evil nature of the Jewish state, many anti-Israel activists display a callous indifference toward antisemitic violence perpetrated between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. The ensuing devastation to...

Antisemitism is a unique form of hatred. While most forms of bigotry involve hating those who are supposedly inferior, antisemitism “punches up,” deriding alleged Jewish plots to ruthlessly control and subjugate all other groups. To illustrate this, here is a quote from former Ku Klux Klan (KKK) grand wizard David...