For the first time since 1994, several Arab countries have fully normalized their diplomatic relations with Israel. This wave of normalization started with the Abraham Accords, a joint statement between the United States, United Arab Emirates and Israel that marked the beginning of normalized diplomatic relations between the UAE and Israel. Over the...
Are Arab-Israeli Students Allowed to be Pro-Peace?
Photo: Hoshvilim/Wikimedia Commons An Arab-Israeli student praising normalization between Israel and the Arab world? Heaven forbid, according to some hostile students at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The Abraham Accords signed last month by Israel, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates have been widely lauded by the international community for upending conventional...
Being a Mizrahi Jew on Social Media
During COVID-19 self-isolation, like many others, I’ve been spending hours a day on social media. In particular, I’ve thoroughly explored the social media app TikTok — an app that has exploded in popularity in the last year. The app, which continuously streams curated 15 second to one-minute-long videos based on...
CAMERA Launches Campaign on Campuses to Celebrate Mizrahi Jews
Photo: National Photo Collection of Israel, Government Press Office/Wikimedia Commons The Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting (CAMERA) has launched a new campaign on campuses across the US to celebrate Mizrahi Jews and highlight their refugee experience. The campaign is in response to CAMERA’s concern that the story of Mizrahi Jews...
Witnesses Dispute Claims Made by Breaking the Silence’s Joel Carmel
Photo: Oren Rozen/Wikimedia Commons “Everyone was against us. Everything in the MSM [mainstream media] was anti-Israel, and we had a responsibility to show the other side,’” Joel Carmel, a former Israel Defense Forces soldier and now English content coordinator for the Breaking the Silence NGO, said of the zeitgeist characterizing...
STATEMENT Regarding Recent Antisemitic Lecture Sponsored by Cornell’s College of Architecture, Art, and Planning
In response to Cornell University’s College of Architecture, Art, and Planning’s (AAP) October 5 event with Brown University professor Ariella Azoulay that featured brazen dehumanization of Jewish immigrants to pre-state Israel, our international campus director Aviva Rosenschein made the following statement: “Unfortunately, many US universities, including some of the most...
America is not the Levant
Photo: Alexander Clegg/Detroit Jewish News Linking Black Lives Matter to Israeli affairs is inaccurate and dishonest. On Oct. 8, the Jewish News online published an op-ed by IfNotNow Detroit activists Rebecca Driker-Ohren and Zak Witus titled “Palestinian Lives Matter.” Of course, Palestinian lives matter — that is not in dispute. What one can dispute is Driker-Ohren...
STATEMENT Regarding Recent Demonization of Israel at Butler University
Photo: Brent Smith/Wikimedia Commons Common sense would suggest that demonizing the nation-state of the Jewish people is antithetical to the principles of “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.” Nevertheless, that’s exactly what Butler University’s Student Government Association’s (SGA) Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Board propagated through their co-sponsorship of last week’s “Boycott and...
