This November, many within the Jewish community observed Mizrahi Heritage Month, a time dedicated to bringing visibility to a historically underrepresented Jewish demographic in the Western world, the Jews of North Africa and the Middle East. After the Jewish people were exiled from their ancestral homeland of Israel and entered...
‘It’s Become Difficult on Some Campuses to Get a Pro-Israel Opinion Published’
Campus media outlets have become a new front in the fight against Jew-hatred in recent years, amid a global surge of antisemitism that has hit colleges and universities particularly hard. To raise awareness of this pressing issue, the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis (CAMERA) and Combat...
If Your Activism Doesn’t Include Jews, It’s Not Activism
Oglethorpe University will always have a special place in my heart. My parents met here, and my grandfather taught here as a young psychologist. I truly consider this school as part of my heritage. However, the other vital part of my heritage is being a proud Jewish woman. At Oglethorpe,...
Antisemitic Conversations with Friends: Academic Panel Dishonestly Promotes Bigotry as Knowledge
Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi’s tenure at San Francisco State University (SFSU) in the department for Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Studies (AMED) has been rife with antisemitism. She has attempted to connect students to terrorists, supported antisemitic activism, propagated antisemitic conspiracies about Jewish power, and unrepentantly compared the Jewish indigenous...
Antisemite & Intifada Supporter Mohammed El Kurd Invited to Speak at Duke University; Israelis Face Wave of Terror
A few months after Duke University’s Student Government (DSG) scandalously vetoed the recognition of a pro-Israel group on campus, they have managed to outdo themselves by funding a known antisemite speaker. Earlier this year, DSG rescinded its recognition of Duke’s SSI (Students Supporting Israel) chapter after the Duke SSI Instagram...
When Anti-Zionists Glorify Terrorism, CUNY Must Take a Stand
On March 8th, the noted anti-Zionist organization, Within Our Lifetime, saw fit to celebrate International Women’s Day by posting a graphic featuring eleven women honoring them for their roles “in the struggle for Palestinian national liberation.” The chair of Within Our Lifetime, Nerdeen Kiswani, is a current student at the...
Is McGill University’s ‘Blacklist’ Another Antisemitic Conspiracy Theory?
Last May, Students in Solidarity with Human Rights (SPHR) at McGill University in Montreal accused “Zionist students” of using a “Blacklist” to “terrorize” pro-Palestine activists. SPHR published the names of six student union leaders “who may have known about, had access to, or contributed to the list.” The group also...
UCCS’s anti-Solidarity Pledge: an Exercise in Antizionism, not Feminism
In May 2021, UCCS Women’s and Ethnic Studies department (WEST) signed an anti-Israel declaration. This is the third statement of “solidarity” signed by WEST, (though interestingly the only one unpublished on their official webpage.) It’s rife with bigotry, vilifies Jews, and attacks the world’s only Jewish state. This should alarm...