Antisemitism

Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid says new report calling Israel an “apartheid state” shows that Amnesty is “another radical organization that echoes propaganda with no serious examination. Instead of seeking facts, Amnesty quotes lies spread by terrorist organizations.”

“[Dr. J. Herbert] Nelson’s remarks were so offensive and inflammatory that people who would normally just sit on the sidelines and throw up their hands, even they have been moved to say, ‘We can’t allow this,’ ” said Rev. Todd Stavrakos, a co-convener of Presbyterians for Middle East Peace.

“These have been challenging, exciting years, full of events and activity,” says Bismuth of the post he has held since 2017.

“We would never have imagined that these things would be said … in classrooms, never mind by radical-left campus groups, but preached by professors in class, in high schools in Manhattan, on the best college campuses … in polite company, and really, really propagated in a way in the halls of Congress as well,” said Elan Carr, former Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism.

It opened at Shaar HaShamayim Synagogue on the island of Sulawesi and is called “The Holocaust: How Was It Humanly Possible?”

Noah Shack of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs said providing efforts to combat anti-Semitism through education is a “critical antidote to hate in our society.”

Malaki Thorpe, 18, is facing two counts of racially aggravated actual bodily harm and one count of possession of an offensive weapon.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning book tells the story of Art Spiegelman’s parents, who lived in Poland in the 1940s, and their time in Auschwitz.

The states that have already issued proclamations include Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Utah, West Virginia, Wyoming and Nevada with Virginia in the works.

The curriculum, adopted under state legislation that mandates ethnic studies, came despite strong opposition from students, parents and Jewish community clergy and leaders.

“The Nazis thought they were the future, and that Jews would be something you only find in a museum. Instead, the Jewish state is the future, and Mauthausen is a museum,” said Foreign Minister Yair Lapid.

Almost 3,600 North American students from grades six through 12 participated in the study by the Ontario-based Liberation75.