Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who served as a Christian Pastor in Germany during the 1930s, once said, “Silence in the face of evil is itself evil.” Bonhoeffer’s courageous actions later breathed existence into his words, as he tenaciously fought alongside other opponents of the Nazi regime to save Jewish families during the...
Another Example of SJP’s Anti-Normalization Campaign
Sadly, but unsurprisingly, UNC Chapel Hill’s campus has once again been plagued with anti-Zionist and antisemitic rhetoric. UNC Chapel Hill’s SJP (Students for Justice in Palestine) chapter just announced their plan to boycott yet another Israeli-related activity—this time, a free spring-break trip to Israel from March 6-15, and has released a detailed...
Israelis Live Through Constant Fear
Photo: (Israel Defense Forces/Wikimedia Commons) Some may ask how Israel, a Jewish state, properly represents its minority Arab population. When speaking at the University of Florida this November, Yoseph Haddad explained exactly this. As an Arab-Israeli Christian, Haddad demonstrated to students how Arabs, who account for 21% of Israel’s population,...
Yoseph Haddad Provides Important Arab Israeli Perspective to Aggies for Israel
If someone were to ask me what I believe is one of the most common misconceptions about Israel, it would unequivocally be homogeneity. Anti-Israel advocates on college campuses push this narrative because they argue Israel is an ethnic state of white Jewish Europeans who suppress the rights of any other...
Foreign Attacks on Israel Should Not be Normalized
Yesterday, the Israeli military ordered the assassination of Baha Abu al-Ata, a senior official in Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) and the driving force behind most terror activities emanating from the Gaza Strip in the past year. His neutralization led to an onslaught of more than 250 rockets directed at the...
Middle East Studies at UT-Austin: Biased Professors, Politicized Classrooms
Contributed by Islamist Watch Writing Fellow for the Middle East Forum Benjamin Baird and director of academic affairs and director of Campus Watch at the Middle East Forum Winfield Myers. The University of Texas at Austin (UT) boasts a large and, at first glance, thriving Center for Middle Eastern Studies...
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...
Antisemitism’s Rise on College Campuses
Indiana University is committed to furthering diversity and inclusion in all that we do. The University has issued sweeping statements in favor of these ideas, and at least tries to appear to do so in its actions as well. But diversity extends beyond our own campus. If IU really wants...