Anti-Israel Bias
One Hapoel supporter said, “It’s a disgrace to basketball. There’s no place for such behavior. It was shameful seeing our flag burned; they should be mortified with themselves.”
It states: “The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is used by faculty and student groups to legitimize discrimination against Jewish and Israeli students because of the latter group’s race, religion and national identity.”
The arrest of Khalida Jarrar, who ran terror operations in the West Bank and is linked to the BDS movement against Israel, could spur further action by U.S. authorities against BDS entities.
The ice-cream company’s Israel branch has called for suggestions on what ingredients to put in the new flavor, which it is calling “Third Time Ice Cream.”
“For far too long, BDS has been able to masquerade as a social-justice movement in America, while spreading vile Jew-hatred, and inciting hate and violence,” says Liora Rez, executive director of StopAntiSemitism.org.
The delegation was in Spain to discuss reversing the European Union decision to label products from Israeli settlements.
Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-Va.) cited a Middle East Forum report that stated “Georgetown University’s various Middle East Studies faculty have a reputation as the most intolerant, ideological, anti-Israel and pro-Islamist in the United States.”
Law professor Eugene Kontorovich said for the first time, the ICC has raised a terror program as a possible war crime; still, that “should not whitewash or smokescreen their bias against Israel and the great unlikelihood that they will take any serious action against the Palestinians.”
A panel addressing at the Israeli-American Council National Summit demonstrates where progressive views differ from mainstream Jewry in classifying anti-Israel bias as Jew-hatred.
A Catholic NGO is to award anti-Israel activist Brigitte Herremans its “ambassador for peace” prize at the site of a transit camp from which Jews were sent to concentration camps during the Holocaust.
She charged the world body for exhibiting a “culture of entitlement and unaccountability,” as well as a “culture of bullying” that has causes it to “time and again” fail to “live up to its charter.”
“I’m sure many of the hard-left elements on campus reflexively pan Israel in order to demonstrate their ‘woke’ bona fides, without really understanding the situation there,” said junior David Esterlit. “I think a lot of it stems from an ahistorical perspective of Israel’s founding.”
