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...
When BDS Groups and Iran Meet
(Photo: William Stadtwald Demchick/Wikimedia Commons) As the Jerusalem Post reported in March, an event occurred on January 18th titled “A Year to Confront Normalization.” As the name indicates, the event discussed efforts to oppose Arab states that normalized relations with Israel in accordance with the Abraham Accords. The chief organizer...
Nuance on Angela Davis Speaking at Northeastern
Photo: Monika M. Wahi/Wikimedia Commons An article published on Feb. 26 by Noah Colbert condemned a statement published by the Hillel advisory board. The statement condemned a planned event that featured Angela Davis as a speaker on the grounds that, among other things, Davis “is a staunch advocate of the BDS campaign” and “has…a...
The Double Standard of Campus Equality
Photo: Rick Dikeman at English Wikipedia/Wikimedia Commons When studying past dystopias in school, we assure ourselves that we would never have fallen for the same propaganda that brainwashed millions. We insist that we would have been abolitionists in America or would have protested against racism in apartheid South Africa. Legislation...