Antisemitism
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Steven Salaita is scheduled to be keynote speaker at the 2022 Graduate and Professional Student Senate Research Symposium; he was removed from his tenured position at the University of Illinois in 2014 after a series of anti-Semitic tweets were discovered.
“The question of Jerusalem is not a political matter. It is a biblical issue,” says Knesset member Gila Gamliel.
He also condemned growing rates of anti-Semitism and called on France to help combat hate.
“[Paul] O’Brien’s patronizing attempt to speak on behalf of the American Jewish community is deeply alarming and offensive,” they wrote in a statement.
“It’s very important that our understanding of the issue reflects cultural realities,” said Troy A. Miller, CEO of National Religious Broadcasters. “An accurate and contemporary definition of anti-Semitism helps us to recognize and combat this form of hatred wherever it emerges.”
Three Class 4 felony charges were filed against the 16-year-old boy: disorderly conduct involving a threat to a school, criminal defacement of school property and a hate crime.
“That is something that nobody has talked about or tracked before—that media could actually make a difference in making the world a safer place,” said Daniel Pomerantz, CEO of HonestReporting.
A speech given by Canada’s special envoy for Holocaust remembrance and anti-Semitism Irwin Cotler brought controversy to campus.
“It should not have to be said that anti-Semitism has no place in America. Sadly, we must say it now—and say it loudly and clearly—because there are those who need to hear it,” said House majority leader Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.).
Among incidents were assaults on visibly identifiable Jews walking in heavily Jewish neighborhoods on Friday nights in Brooklyn, N.Y.
“This game is costing us. This process of just holding and holding and holding makes no sense whatsoever,” said Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee.
“The conclusions demonstrate that France and the entire leadership of the European Union recognize the danger that anti-Semitism poses to the Jewish people and society at large,” said World Jewish Congress president Ronald S. Lauder.
