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Sean Savage

“If the university does nothing about attacks like this, it effectively condones them, sending an ugly message and setting a dangerous precedent,” said Rachel Lerman, vice chair of the Brandeis Center.
While it remains unclear how it came about, the company called it “inappropriate” and removed the words after being alerted by JNS.
“The spread of anti-Semitism throughout the Irish mainstream is clearly worse than in almost any other Western nation. It requires a massive educational drive to even begin to unravel some of the damage,” according to the findings.
Charles Jacobs, president of Americans for Peace and Tolerance, said ethnic-studies and racial-justice curricula as constructed are “poisonous to American society; they promote tribalism and racism.”
“These candidates, some of whom face vocal anti-Israel primary opponents, are running in some of the most competitive primary and general elections across the country in 2022,” said executive director of the bipartisan PAC Jeff Mendelsohn.
“Despite its seemingly innocuous name, this legislation is just another assault on Israel from the fringe left. The American people are pro-Israel, and as a result, this legislation is destined to fail,” chairwoman of the CUFI Action Fund Sandra Parker told JNS.
“We rely heavily on primary-source documents, firsthand accounts, survivor testimony, eyewitness reports at the time photographs taken at the time,” said teacher Rachel Pignato. “We don’t want to really rely on some other person’s perspective of what happened. We want to hear from the people who went through it. So that becomes a cornerstone of the course.”
Nevertheless, Anuradha Mittal has posted anti-Israel content and support for the BDS movement on her personal Twitter account, including calling for the U.S. government to end aid to Israel and supporting Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and her anti-Semitic rhetoric.
“By virtue of its wayward subsidiary, Unilever—a massive international conglomerate—risks potentially crushing financial consequences in terms of its ability to receive investments from, or do business with, the majority of U.S. states,” said Brooke Goldstein of the Lawfare Project.
Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan said that he has written to 35 U.S. governors, noting that the decision by the company violates individual states’ anti-BDS legislation.
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and King Abdullah reportedly met in secret last week in Amman, prior to the Jordanian monarch’s scheduled visit the White House on July 19.
A dozen stated that “ignoring the differences between democracies governed by the rule of law and contemptible organizations that engage in terrorism at best discredits one’s intended argument and at worst reflects deep-seated prejudice.”