Antisemitism
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Yad Vashem chairman denounces planned sale of some 20 Nazi items, including daggers, flags and an SS helmet • Auction house head dismisses criticism of “bleeding hearts and the self-righteous.”
The new documentary “Baking Bread” focuses on Arab and Jewish chefs who work jointly on creating dishes in a city known for multicultural coexistence.
Israeli Justice Minister Gideon Sa’ar approved the enacting of Israel’s Boycott Law, passed by the Knesset in 2011 and enables sanctions against companies that harm the Jewish state.
“This sort of rhetoric won’t do anything to solve the underlying problems and only gives talking points to radical extremists,” stated Reps. Doug Lamborn (R-Colo.) and Steve Chabot (R-Ohio).
The resolution highlighted incidents at the North Carolina university, such as the drawing of swastikas.
The legislation would give exceptions to symbols used for educational, historical and/or other legitimate purposes.
The European Jewish Congress called on HarperCollins to distance itself from the book’s “potentially incendiary claim ... at a time when anti-Semitism and the distortion of the Holocaust are on the rise.”
The funding is part of efforts to support Holocaust awareness throughout the country, said acting education minister Stuart Robert.
“Fighting bigotry should not be a competition between minority groups; it’s not a zero-sum game,” said Denise Katz-Prober, director of legal initiatives at the Brandeis Center.
A total of 111 incidents were recorded at universities in the 2020-21 academic year—a rise of 59 percent from the previous school year.
Avi Bell, a professor at the University of San Diego School of Law and at Bar-Ilan University’s Faculty of Law, told JNS “the big challenge would be to find any claims by Amnesty that are defensible from a legal point of view.”
“It’s not for third-graders. This is for eighth-grade minds who’ve already had Holocaust education beginning in fifth grade—in the state of Tennessee, that’s when we begin,” said Michael Dzik of the Jewish Federation of Greater Chattanooga.
