On April 2, I attended Harvard University’s Palestine Solidarity Committee’s event titled “IAW 2019: Black-Palestinian Solidarity,” which was held during the university’s Israel Apartheid Week. The featured speakers —Temple University professor Marc Lamont Hill, Princeton University emeritus professor Cornell West and activist/attorney Dima Khalidi—spent nearly two hours regurgitating slander, conspiracy theories...
What Makes a Healthy Democracy
Justin Trudeau has been facing a major scandal for his alleged role in the SNC Lavalin matter – thankfully, our country is having an open discussion about it. Jodie Wilson, the former Attorney General, accused Trudeau of helping SNC Lavalin evade possible criminal prosecution for their possible corrupt dealings in...
Dear Cornell University: ‘Reject BDS and Work for a Better World’
Four Jewish students at Cornell University, in a recent op-ed, called for a boycott against Israel. The authors make many false or misleading accusations, among the most despicable of them points they make regarding the Holocaust. The authors are correct that hundreds of thousands of heroic Jews died fighting Nazi Germany....
A Liberal Case for Eurovision in Israel
Last October, an Israeli couple bought some jewelry at Paris Orly Airport. Leaving the store, the two noticed a strange and seemingly innocuous error on their receipt: it stated that their destination – Israel’s Ben-Gurion Airport, located in northern Lod just 12 miles away from Tel Aviv’s city center –...
J’accuse — France’s Antisemitism Problem
“Happy like a Jew in France.” This slogan was once the refrain of many persecuted Jewish communities in Europe, who saw the French nation as a haven for the “people of the book.” France was the first European country to emancipate the Jews, granting them citizenship and equal rights. Napoleon...
Commentary: Ilhan Omar’s Critique of AIPAC Antisemitic
Topics surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and similar issues have been the subject of much discourse during recent months on Ithaca College’s campus. The discourse follows comments made by U.S. Congresswoman Ilhan Omar concerning American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) that were deemed to be antisemitic in substance, if not in tone....
‘I Hope my Party’s Leadership Takes a Stand Against Omar’
After widespread condemnations of recent tweets by Minnesota Rep Ilhan Omar as antisemitic, Binghamton University Pipe Dream’s opinions editor Sarah Molano claimed that “Democrats are doing all they can to stifle the more progressive views of these officials.” When progressivism becomes hateful, it is inherently no longer progressive. Therefore, Molano’s...
NYU: A Hostile Place for Jewish Students
Alejandro Villa Vasquez, an NYU student and former deputy managing editor at NYU’s Washington Square News, tweeted multiple race-sensitive posts on December 6th. “I hope every Zionist kkunt @ New York University is crying right now,” and “I want all Zionists to die”. Vasquez tweeted this as a reaction to...