Physical violence is not protected by the First Amendment As the US Air Force C-17 left Afghan airspace, I allowed myself to relax for a brief moment. My year-long tour in Kabul, Afghanistan was over. Returning home, I thought of those fellow soldiers, including my Command Sergeant Major, who had...
Taking Anti-Semitism Seriously
Concerns of pro-Israel and Jewish students are valid and should not be dismissed I am a Zionist. Not only am I a Zionist, but I am a female, Jewish person of color and I have never felt more marginalized in my lifetime. When Zionists are boxed into the categories of...
Students Respond to Antisemitism at University of Michigan and Swarthmore College – 2018
"Some 20 students from the United Kingdom and Ireland participated in the first high-level training conference that prepares students to respond to campus anti-Semitism and anti-Israel activism of its kind. The inaugural CAMERA on Campus UK Student Leadership Conference, which was held on Oct. 14 in London, placed a heavy...
Response to the Recent Anti-Semitic Incidents at Michigan
University of Michigan professor encourages bigotry Recently, John Cheney-Lippold, an associate professor in the American Culture Department at the University of Michigan, declined a student’s request for a recommendation letter for a study abroad program, with vocal support from multiple activists on campus. The reason? The student’s intention to study...
Tolerance and Dialogue, Not Anti-Israel Hate Is Needed on Campus
Reject the outrageous platform of the 2018 National Students for Justice in Palestine Conference “Ethnic cleansing, destruction, mass expulsion, apartheid, and death.” What unspeakable horror could this be describing? The answer: Zionism. This is according to National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP), a self-described “social justice movement” that opposes...
Anti-Semitic Groups Should Not Be Given a Platform on College Campuses
Editor’s Note: Sign this petition to demand that UCLA adhere to its commitment to “mutual respect, equality and inclusion.” UCLA permitting SJP’s event normalizes the group’s anti-Israel ideology “We know that Zionism is ethnic cleansing, destruction, mass expulsion, apartheid and death, but it is also something very tangible. The reason...
UCLA’s Tango With Hate and Anti-Semitism
SJP’s National Conference demonizes students across the country who are supportive of Israel Students for Justice in Palestine will host its annual national conference in November at the University of California, Los Angeles. Despite the notoriously anti-Semitic rhetoric used by this group, UCLA will be directly facilitating the spreading of...
The Forward Delegitimizes Pro-Israel Activism
According to the Forward, there is a shady cabal controlling the actions of the pro-Israel community. On August 2, the Forward published the first of what is now a series of two articles about “covert tactics targeting Israel’s critics,” by Josh Nathan-Kazis. (“A New Wave Of Hardline Anti-BDS Tactics Are...