In recent years, we have seen how anti-Israel hostility has sprouted in hundreds of universities across the country. Under the disguise of academic freedom, institutions of higher learning have become fertile grounds for extremism. While Jewish studies departments and organizations such as Chabad and Hillel sustain a vibrant Jewish life...
A Berkeley student group celebrates anti-Semitic violence
Bears for Palestine, a UC Berkeley student organization, hosted their fifth annual gala this past semester. The gala was “in honor of the unity intifada” — the latest in a series of violent Palestinian uprisings against Israel. Honoring an intifada disregards the violent history of past intifadas, downplays the trauma...
ASUC Should Condemn Bears for Palestine’s Display
Pittsburgh. Poway. Jersey City. Monsey. The list of cities afflicted by deadly antisemitic attacks is growing far too quickly. We can continue to cite facts and statistics (the near daily attacks on Jewish communities in New York, how 60% of all religious hate crimes in 2018 were classified as anti-Jewish, etc.), but the bottom...
