Earlier this term, KCL Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) co-hosted an event with 17 other Palestinian student societies across the UK featuring the co-founder of the anti-Israeli Boycott Sanction and Divest (BDS) campaign, Omar Barghouti. Barghouti co-founded the campaign in 2005. While BDS officially claims to oppose “anti-Jewish racism”, the...
Crimson’s BDS Embrace Pulls Reputation Into Question
In a dark return to history, Harvard has again made itself unsafe to Jewish students. The storied Harvard Crimson made the mistake of endorsing the antisemitic BDS campaign on Holocaust Remembrance Day. Over the past year, we have witnessed a troubling trend of the Harvard Crimson’s increasingly hostile bias against the State of...
Holocaust Inversion: Unmasking the False Comparisons of Palestinians to the Holocaust
On April 12, 1945, General Eisenhower visited Ohrdruf, a subcamp of Buchenwald. Upon his return to the United States, he emphasized the importance of spreading the truth about the Holocaust: I made the visit deliberately, in order to be in a position to give first-hand evidence of these things if...
The Holocaust Happened Outside of Europe Too
Photo: Wikipedia user Valley2city/Wikimedia Commons Once a year in Israel, a piercing siren is sounded for two minutes. On every road, street and corner of the country, life is temporarily suspended. People stop in the middle of walking, driving or working, to stand in silence, and commemorate the suffering of...
The Irony of Israel-Nazi Comparisons on College Campuses
Photo: German Federal Archive/Wikimedia Commons On a Spring day in 2018 during the March of Return riots, Palestinians at the Gaza border flew a swastika-emblazoned kite carrying a Molotov cocktail into Israel. From the black smoke of burning tires arose another swastika, only this time interposed between two Palestinian flags....
The Forgotten Refugees
Photo: National Photo Collection of Israel, Government Press Office/Wikimedia Commons November was Mizrahi Heritage Month. In honor of this, the John Jay Hillel, Students Without Borders, International Criminal Justice Club, and the Student Council partnered together with CAMERA on Campus to host a screening of the documentary The Forgotten Refugees. There were...
לא מפתיע: פעילות אנטישמית בקמפוס אמהרסט
Photo: Eraboin ביום הזיכרון לשואה, כאשר ישראל ושאר העולם הנציחו את ששת מיליון היהודים שנרצחו בשואה, חשבו פעילים אנטי-ישראליים כי יהיה ראוי להשחית את מרכז הילל בקמפוס אמהרסט. בחזית הבניין רוססו כתובות גרפיטי בערבית בצבע אדום והשם “פלסטין” הוטבע בערבית. תא ‘סטודנטים לצדק בפלסטין’ (SJP) של האוניברסיטה מיהר מיד במגננה,...
Minimizing The Holocaust During the COVID-19 Pandemic
The depth of the coronavirus pandemic took the world by surprise. The international economy has completely crashed, unemployment is rampant, and as of Friday, the disease has claimed more than 150,000 lives worldwide, with a reported 2.2 million cases of infection. While scientists around the world continue to decipher the many surprises...