Several incidents involving swastikas, harmful antisemitic libels, and images of the burning Israeli flag have taken place on Ohio State’s campus in the weeks leading up to the anniversary of Kristallnacht, the start of violence against Jews in Nazi Germany. One would hope that OSU administrators and students would come...
Anti-Israel Propaganda Sponsored By Cornell University’s Institute For Comparative Modernities
The 2020-2021 academic school year saw an all-time high of 244 reported antisemitic incidents on universities across the country, including Cornell University. As rockets rained down on Israel from the Hamas terrorist organization in Gaza, students at our university faced classic antisemitic harassment, including at least one student being called...
Noura Erakat’s Fairy Tales About Israel
Photo: Wikimedia Commons On March 2, 2021, the UC Santa Barbara Center for Middle East Studies hosted human rights attorney and professor Noura Erakat as a part of her international book tour. The Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis (CAMERA)’s campus department has thoroughly reviewed the book and refuted its falsehoods....
Recent Arab-Israeli Peace Deals Are Steps Toward Cultural Peace
Photo: U.S. Embassy Jerusalem/Wikimedia Commons Israel has recently negotiated peace deals to normalize relations with several Arab nations, including the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Sudan. Resolutions in both houses of Congress supporting the deals with the UAE and Bahrain had widespread bipartisan support, and the deals are a crucial step towards...
המשך שיחה חד כיוונית
Photo: Cantavestrella/Wikimedia Commons סדרת האירועים המקוונים האחרונה “המשך השיחות” מאוניברסיטת SOAS בלונדון – “ארצות הברית ופלסטין: תירה כדי להרוג מדיניות והתנגדות בינלאומית” – הציעה פלטפורמה לאקטיביסטית ולפרופסורית נורה עריקאת מאוניברסיטת ראטגרס לספק דעות מעוותות מאוד במקום שיח פתוח המאפשר דיון פורה בנושאים רגישים אלה. המנחה, ד”ר ראפיף זיאדה, מרצה ב-SOAS...
Continuing a One-Way ‘Conversation’
Photo: Cantavestrella/Wikimedia Commons The latest of the SOAS University of London “Continuing the Conversations” online events series—“U.S. and Palestine: Shoot to Kill Policies and Transnational Resistance”—offered a platform for activist and professor Noura Erakat of Rutgers University to provide a heavily biased account as opposed to facilitating a conversation over...
Lecturer Tells SOAS Event That Israel Deploys Legal ‘Logic’ set out by Nazi Jurist
Photo: Cantavestrella/Wikimedia Commons An American academic has claimed the Israeli government’s treatment of Palestinians follows a theory set out by Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt. Speaking at an online event at the School of Oriental and African Studies (Soas) on 17 September, Professor Noura Erakat, an Assistant Professor at Rutgers University,...
Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine – Noura Erakat Misrepresents History
Photo: Israel Government Press Office/Wikimedia Commons Noura Erakat, assistant professor at George Mason University, claims in her new book “Justice for Some: The Question of Palestine,” that international law operates under the settler-colonial framework, and as a result has historically favored the State of Israel. According to Erakat: International law...