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The effort comes weeks after a committee meeting on March 8, when Lipstadt’s nomination was blocked by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) after his objections.
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.
Chicago-based Morningstar hired outside counsel to review anti-Israel bias claims against it after long-standing denials. An apparent good-faith effort has bought them a stay.
“The question of Jerusalem is not a political matter. It is a biblical issue,” says Knesset member Gila Gamliel.
The Public Employees’ Retirement Association voted unanimously to proceed with the divestment of $42 million from Unilever.
Before the British parliament, the embattled president of Ukraine talked of World War II and Shakespeare. Before the U.S. Congress, it was Pearl Harbor and 9/11. But despite being Jewish, Volodymyr Zelenskyy was less successful in his appeal to Israel’s government.
He also condemned growing rates of anti-Semitism and called on France to help combat hate.
Regarding help to those fleeing the country in the wake of a continued Russian onslaught, Kyiv Chief Rabbi Yaakov Dov Bleich said: “I’m making this very clear that all of the Jewish communities are doing this, and nobody is asking if you’re Jewish or not. The buses leave from the synagogues, but they’re open to anybody that wants to come.”
Israeli Communications Minister Yoaz Hendel described the move as “illogical” and “aggressive.”
Titled “Faculty Academic Boycotters: Ground Zero for Campus Antisemitism,” it explored anti-Semitic activity at universities starting from the onset of the 11-day conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza last May through the end of the 2020-21 academic year.
The “Open Hands” Telegram channel claims that its “lengthy intelligence operation” against David Barnea dates back to 2014.
