Anti-Israel Bias
The Emiratis join Albania, Brazil, Gabon and Ghana in installing their countries’ flags outside the council chamber, replacing Estonia, Niger, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Tunisia and Vietnam.
The launch coincided with the second anniversary of the death of former Quds Force leader Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani.
The newspaper’s homepage was replaced with an illustration recalling Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani and threatening the Dimona nuclear facility.
As anti-Semitism has become increasingly mainstream, the Simon Wiesenthal Center is now “looking for accountability and corporate responsibility.”
A CAA spokesman said that “for years” the watchdog group has offered to provide anti-Semitism training to the BBC and asked the broadcaster to adopt the IHRA definition.
“When a globally recognized organization allows anti-Semitism to creep into its reporting, it makes it all the more insidious and dangerous,” says Wiesenthal Center head Rabbi Marvin Hier.
Responding to the Illinois decision, Yinam Cohen, the consul general of Israel to the Midwest, said, “Israel has always claimed that any solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict must be reached through direct, bilateral negotiations between the two sides.”
The Illinois Investment Policy Board is scheduled to vote on divesting its pension funds of investments in Unilever at its meeting on Wednesday morning in Chicago, multiple sources told JNS.
Experts say the resolution ignores the reality of academic freedom in Israel. According to the Israeli Council for Higher Education, approximately 54,000 Arab students attend Israeli universities, comprising 17 percent of all students in Israel.
On Dec. 2, the LSGA passed a resolution that calls on CUNY to cut all ties with companies that “aid in or profit from Israeli colonization, occupation and war crimes.”
In an editors’ note, the newspaper acknowledged that its reporting did not accurately reflect the facts.
“The report hides behind misleading claims of ‘academic freedom’ to treat Jewish concerns with an extraordinary level of hesitation absent from similar university reports on other minority groups,” said Douglas Sandoval, managing editor of CAMERA on Campus.
