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...
Why This Christian Supports the Jews and Israel
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who served as a Christian Pastor in Germany during the 1930s, once said, “Silence in the face of evil is itself evil.” Bonhoeffer’s courageous actions later breathed existence into his words, as he tenaciously fought alongside other opponents of the Nazi regime to save Jewish families during the...
BDS is a Denial of My Existence
Decrying Jewish self-determination is antisemitic The Boycott, Divest, and Sanction movement completely undermines the dialogue and conversation necessary to even begin to unpack the Israeli-Palestinian conflict because at its basic level, it as an antisemitic attack. BDS and National Students for Justice in Palestine, its loudest proponents, do not support...
A Case of Anti-Semitism at Rutgers University
Editor’s Note: The US Department of Education recently reopened its investigation into a 2011 incident at Rutgers University in which Jewish students were discriminated against by an anti-Israel group on campus. With a new inquiry into this case, the Department has also adopted a sharper definition of anti-Semitism as adopted by...