Antisemitism
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The candidate, who would succeed Rashid Khalidi, a longtime critic of Israel who retired from the post in 2024, has publicly praised him as a mentor.
“There are certainly organizations with much stronger reputations within the Jewish community for actually standing up and fighting antisemitism,” the Jewish Educators and Families Association of Canada told JNS.
“No one would have suspected that the entire legal system would be implicated in such a mess,” says law scholar Yaakov Ben-Shemesh.
Israeli prosecutors say the pair passed security information to Iranian intelligence for pay and are seeking to keep them jailed during trial.
“I think the government should be funding those universities that see themselves as repositories of cultural inheritance and of a Western tradition that undergirds what America stands for,” Yeshiva University’s president, who testified at the hearing, told JNS.
“Medford can’t use taxpayer dollars, pensions included, to run an ideological boycott,” Mark Goldfeder, of the National Jewish Advocacy Center, told JNS.
Officer Christopher Wagner alleges that he was passed over for promotions and subjected to antisemitic incidents over his 20-year career with the Livingston Police Department.
Rep. Virginia Foxx stated that she “won’t be deterred from my fight to protect Jewish students from discrimination on campuses across the nation.”
Antisemitism “subtly” hits students repeatedly until they become “numb to it,” a senior at San Diego State University told JNS.
“There’s a lot of difficulties in every country, even those that you would think would not have antisemitism,” the rabbi and State Department official said.
The “Justice for Shireen Act” would require an independent investigation and a congressional report on the 2022 death of Shireen Abu Akleh.
“I was a rabbi before I became a lawyer, which informs a lot of my worldview,” the National Jewish Advocacy Center CEO told JNS.
