Antisemitism
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The Green Party’s Jill Stein was detained alongside two staffers during an illegal protest at Washington University in St. Louis.
“It is shameful. Seeing this, it feels like they are winning,” said Noemi Ebenstein, an 82-year-old Holocaust survivor.
A candid interview with Israeli U.N. envoy Gilad Erdan about the challenges faced by the Jewish state in the international forum.
“It is patently false and a blood libel to suggest that ANY Jewish students are ‘pro-genocide,’” ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt tweeted.
Irene Khan, U.N. special rapporteur for freedom of expression and opinion, lamented what she said was confusion between hate speech, incitement and what is “basically a different view of the situation in Israel”
“Hitler, Hitler go back home, Palestine is ours alone,” more than 100 demonstrators chanted at George Washington University on Friday.
Elie Wiesel’s son told JNS that nothing is like the Holocaust, but the Chinese persecution of the Muslim minority has the “feeling of the Nazi machinery.”
In a letter, two members of the Senate Armed Services Committee said “the United States and our allies should increase pressure.”
House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) asked pressing questions of the university’s interim president with a deadline of May 6.
The act is more important than ever “with Jewish students increasingly fearing for their safety,” stated Sacha Roytman, CEO of the Combat Antisemitism Movement.
Reps. Mike Lawler and Ritchie Torres intend to introduce the bill responding to antisemitism on campuses, “Jewish Insider” reported.
“Jewish students are being targeted and attacked physically and verbally,” wrote the school’s president.
