Anti-Israel Bias
It stated that “the current draft model curriculum falls short and needs to be substantially redesigned.” Pro-Israel groups applauded the decision, though vowed to keep watch on the matter.
The class, which received criticism when it was offered last year, will be taught by Thomas Abowd, who has an extensive history of engaging in anti-Israel and anti-Semitic causes.
“If not addressed, this problem threatens to undermine not only the current effort to develop an ethnic studies model curriculum, but all other curricular efforts undertaken by the Department of Education,” continued a letter signed by 83 organizations.
Media monitoring organization CAMERA says the paper is still failing to convey that the Palestinians “are more than just victims.”
Dimitri Verhulst wrote in the Belgian daily “De Morgen” that “there is no promised land, only stolen land,” and that “no God would give creatures such an ugly nose.”
“[It] is deeply troubling—not only for its shocking omission of any mention of Jewish Americans or anti-Semitism or its blatant anti-Israel bias and praise of BDS, but for its clear attempt to politically indoctrinate students to adopt the view that Israel and its Jewish supporters are part of ‘interlocking systems of oppression and privilege’ that must be fought with ‘direct action’ and ‘resistance,’ ” said Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, head of the AMCHA Initiative.
The pictures show the leader of the British Labour Party walking in a 2009 march in Birmingham, England, where protesters held banners that described the Jewish state as “child killers” and “thirsty for blood,” while calling for a boycott of the Jewish state.
CodePink penned an open letter claiming that Richie’s Sept. 12 concert in Tel Aviv, as part of his “Hello” tour, “will act as an endorsement of Israel’s brutal systems of military occupation and apartheid.”
The end result? Jews need to “get angry” and get active. Attending conferences, acknowledge Jewish leaders themselves, does not address the scourge that’s growing around the world.
A four-day event in Boston aims to teach students how to push back against anti-Semitic and anti-Israel forces on campus.
She also endorsed the anti-Israel progressive group IfNotNow, saying it is “amazing” and “organizing for justice.”
Social-media guidance sent to the country’s diplomatic posts states “that even ‘likes’ are understood as expressions of opinion of the German government.”
