Recently, as reported by The Algemeiner, dozens of organizations petitioned the chancellor of the California State University system in response to San Francisco State University (SFSU) professor Rabab Abdulhadi’s use of the university’s Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diaspora Studies (AMED) Facebook page to spread antisemitic propaganda. This concern is more than justified. As the...
Call Out Antisemitism, Even When it’s Veiled Under Anti-Zionism
Antisemitism is on the rise on both the far-right and far-left in the United States. In fact, according to the Anti-Defamation League, antisemitism in the US has increased by 57% since 2017. Increasingly around the world, antisemitism is veiled under anti-Zionism. Though this type of antisemitism is less obvious and harder...
“The Running of the Zionist”
We do not have to account to anybody, we are not to sit for anybody’s examination and nobody is old enough to call on us to answer. We came before them and will leave after them. Ze’ev Jabotinsky, Instead of Excessive Apology (1911) March 3, 2019, would appear to be...
Slamming ‘Zionists’ and ‘Zionism’ Writ Large at Harvard
On April 2, I attended Harvard University’s Palestine Solidarity Committee’s event titled “IAW 2019: Black-Palestinian Solidarity,” which was held during the university’s Israel Apartheid Week. The featured speakers —Temple University professor Marc Lamont Hill, Princeton University emeritus professor Cornell West and activist/attorney Dima Khalidi—spent nearly two hours regurgitating slander, conspiracy theories...
York University Mural Constant Reminder Zionist Students Not Welcome
Three years ago, a large-scale, informal, and yet typical, Israeli-Palestinian debate took place on campus. This debate caused controversy, questioned the university’s commitment to free speech and student rights, challenged the university’s ability to make decisions regarding student safety, caused one of the university’s largest donors to pull out his...
“Jewish Voice for Peace” (JVP): What the Media is Concealing
The anti-Zionist group “Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP)” has been described in the mainstream media, at various times, as “an anti-discrimination group”(Boston Globe, Aug. 7, 2015); “an American Jewish group” that has been “critical of Israeli treatment of Palestinians” (Los Angeles Times, Jan. 8, 2018 and Sept. 9, 2015); a...
Biased Education and the Perpetuation of Conflict
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has become a subjective discussion in our universities. These academic inconsistencies have posed a significant danger to young minds, as inaccuracies seem to be abundant in our classrooms. These conscious or unconscious attempts to distort the historical component of the conflict have certainly perpetuated anti-Zionism in some...
Healing the Wound: Should Anti-Discrimination Legislation be Passed by the Student Senate?
Last year, GW’s Student Association Senate passed an anti-Israel, anti-Semitic BDS resolution. On the same night, they failed to remove a publicly known anti-Semitic senator, Brady Forrest, from voting. The SA failed the Jewish and pro-Israel community at GW, allowing anti-Semitism on campus to go unchecked. While President LeBlanc denounced...
