Anti-Israel Bias
Adelaide Writers’ Week again invites Randa Abdel-Fattah, reigniting a dispute over free speech and alleged praise for Hamas crimes.
Letitia James, the state’s attorney general, announced a settlement with Betar to end the organization’s “bias-motivated assaults, threats and harassment.”
The event is “a viciously anti-Zionist conference,’” wrote Rabbi Elchana Poupko, host of “The Jewish World” podcast.
The textbooks’ historical revisionism is “intolerable,” French President Emmanuel Macron wrote on X.
“The U.N. has a responsibility to uphold its own rules, not bend them to appease extremists or reward antisemitism,” Rep. Mike Lawler said.
Mahmoud Khalil, former spokesman for the anti-Israel encampment at Columbia University, led the crowd in a “free, free Palestine” chant.
“It’s not a surprise that these activists would escalate their tactics to go directly to the targets of their indoctrination,” Mika Hackner, of the North American Values Institute, told JNS.
Organizers defy requests from police and mayor to postpone the event.
“Translation: The Jewish community organized and responded, and we were going to be held accountable, so we got scared and went home,” stated Mark Goldfeder, of the National Jewish Advocacy Center.
It is “an illegal form of discrimination by Belgium against its own citizens,” Ralph Pais, vice president of Belgium’s Jewish Information and Documentation Center, told JNS.
Jerusalem accused West Midlands Police of antisemitism after the cops said visiting Israelis had been a ‘threat’ to Birmingham residents.
Critics of the decision to clear the stands called it a “surrender to jihadism.”
