Anti-Israel Bias
Remko Leemhuis, acting director of the American Jewish Committee office in Berlin, said he is “appalled” that artists who glorify terrorism against Israel would be “offered a stage in the heart of Berlin.”
“Boycotts do nothing to bring about peace and are designed entirely to demonize Israel. This is another dark day in the history of the Labour Party,” said Labour Friends of Israel director Jennifer Gerber.
After grappling with an anti-Israel teacher-training course being offered in their school district, a group of Jewish students outside Chicago form a new club to demonstrate pride in their heritage.
The Cairo Declaration calls for a boycott of Israel, accusing the Jewish state of perpetrating “apartheid” and robbing Palestinian land with the help of America’s “unlimited support to the Zionist perpetrators of genocidal crimes against the Palestinian people.”
“Lewis’s claim that the ‘Jewish Lobby’ controls the GOP through ‘money’ is both factually false and morally reprehensible,” said Democratic Majority for Israel president and CEO Mark Mellman.
“It degrades the brand even more that it took three years to find someone even more anti-Semitic and vehemently anti-Zionist,” said Nisi Jacobs, founder and CEO of WoMen Fight AntiSemitism.
The event “Conflict Over Gaza: People, Politics and Possibilities” reportedly used $5,000 of federal taxpayer funds from the U.S. Education Department.
“On U.S. campuses across the country, harassment motivated by classical anti-Semitism actually decreased, and significantly so. At the same time, however, the number of Israel-related acts of harassment increased significantly,” wrote the report’s researchers.
The movement told the outlet that the three would “transition off of the Women’s March Board and onto other projects focused on advocacy within their respective organizations.”
“All too often, the topic of Israel is sloganized and simplified; people fail to see the nuances that exist,” said Caravan for Democracy participant and Hofstra University student Deandra Denton.
Issam Al-Yamani spoke at a building belonging to a branch of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, representing professors and teaching assistants at the university.
Israel’s Channel 13 news has launched an investigation after its report on supposed extremism at a pre-military school founded by Education Minister Rafi Peretz was proven to be false.
