On Wednesday, February 15, the Associated Students of the University of California (ASUC) Berkeley Senate met to deliberate on adopting SR-027, a bill proposed by Senator Shay Cohen. The bill calls for the ASUC to formally adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Association (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism. The IHRA definition...
UC Berkeley Should Stand Up for Jewish Students Like Me
Last November, two lawyers filed a civil rights inquiry against Berkeley School of Law with the federal government. This controversy began on August 23rd, 2022, when student group Law Students for Justice in Palestine urged other clubs within the Law School to adopt an amendment to bylaws stating that they...
Students for Justice in Palestine’s Land Day Lies
Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) constitute the most influential university branch of the anti-Israel movement. Despite their banal sloganeering and ludicrous propaganda, SJP keeps anti-Zionism in vogue with every cycle of impressionable college students eager to fight social injustice. Every so often, however, the fixture of campus activism breaks...
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...
Seven Minutes of Hate Courtesy of SJP and UMASS Boston
Cover photo: Screenshot Last Thursday, June 24, 2021, I was publicly humiliated and scapegoated at a rally organized by the UMASS Boston Chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine, (SJP). More to the point, I was shoved, spit at, called a bitch, a Nazi, a pig, and doused with water at a...
Is Social Media the Most Dangerous Weapon Against Israel?
In 2021, social media is a weapon; it has the power to politicize and the power to spread disinformation. And tens of thousands of students across the US — maybe more — have successfully used social media to find their anti-Israel voices over the past week. The situation between Israel...
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...
Terrorism, Not Activism: A Closer Look at Samidoun
In February 2021, Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz officially designated the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network as a terrorist organization for its ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), itself considered a terrorist organization in the United States, the European Union, Israel and Canada. According to the Israeli National Bureau...