The Harvard Crimson has published an anonymous statement by its Editorial Board in favor of the notorious Boycott, Divest and Sanctions campaign (BDS) against Israel: In Support of Boycott, Divest, Sanctions and a Free Palestine. Despite the editorial’s portentous style, as a Harvard alumnus (GSAS 1987) I do feel it’s important to respond in an...
MESA’s decision to adopt BDS is wrong
On December 2nd, the Middle Eastern Studies Association (MESA) adopted a resolution endorsing the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions campaign targeting the Israeli universities and academics. According to MESA President Dina Rizek Khuri, “the decision was made to show solidarity with researchers whose lives and livelihoods are being attacked by the...
Echoes of Wannsee on campus
On January 20, 1942, in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee, fifteen high-ranking Nazi officials convened in a villa to carry out the sentencing of the Jewish people. By war’s end, the edict reached saw its near-realization: six million Jews were systematically executed. The ideological heirs to the twentieth century’s eliminationist...
Anti-Israel Ideologue Exploits McGill Student Paper Struggling With Its Honesty Pledge
On January 11, 2022, the McGill Tribune published a staunchly anti-Zionist exposé written by senior managing editor Maya Abuali. Her premise rests on the two-pronged belief that Jewish people are not indigenous to the Levant and that Zionism is inherently racist. Unsurprisingly, she cherry-picks facts and relies heavily on uncited...
Anti-Israel Ideologue Exploits McGill Student Paper Struggling With Its Honesty Pledge
On January 11, 2022, the McGill Tribune published a staunchly anti-Zionist exposé written by senior managing editor Maya Abuali. Her premise rests on the two-pronged belief that Jewish people are not indigenous to the Levant and that Zionism is inherently racist. Unsurprisingly, she cherry-picks facts and relies heavily on uncited...
Sally Rooney’s Israel Boycott Fits in With Ireland’s Anti-Israel Hate
A few weeks ago, Teen Vogue ran an article reporting on the decision of best-selling Irish author Sally Rooney not to have her latest novel translated into Hebrew by a publisher in Israel. The article was titled, “Sally Rooney Boycotts Israeli ‘Apartheid,’ Refuses Work With Publishers.” In a statement, Rooney...
Updated: Anti-Israel Polemicist to Give Wiesel Memorial Lecture at Boston University
Rev. Dr. William Barber II, the former president of the North Carolina Chapter of the NAACP who regularly refers to Jesus as “a brown-skinned Palestinian Jew” and who in 2018 falsely accused Israel of “targeting” Palestinian children “simply because they want freedom,” is scheduled to give the Elie Wiesel Memorial...
The Push to ‘Other’ the Identities of Israeli Jews
Photo: Israel Defense Forces/Wikimedia Commons When discussing the history of the establishment of Israel, a commonly parroted trope within anti-Israel and antisemitic circles is that the nation was founded by Jewish people who “colonized” the land and displaced more than 1 million Palestinians in 1948. This is an absurd and...