Antisemitism
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U.S. Jewish groups blast the former president for invoking “radioactive anti-Semitic tropes” in a recent interview with an Israeli journalist.
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Mark and Michelle Fortin evicted Yohannis Selassie, who is black and Jewish, from an apartment they own in Winthrop after the latter refused their demands to remove a mezuzah from his doorpost.
“I do think BDS is being beaten back here,” said MP Robert Jenrick of the Conservative Party.
Experts say the resolution ignores the reality of academic freedom in Israel. According to the Israeli Council for Higher Education, approximately 54,000 Arab students attend Israeli universities, comprising 17 percent of all students in Israel.
House approves Omar-backed bill to create Islamophobia monitor, despite concerns of targeting Israel
If enacted, the bill would create an office to monitor and combat Islamophobia in the State Department—similar to the one that exists for anti-Semitism. But Republicans and some Democrats noted the bill’s vagueness and the fact that it could be used to attack Israel.
James Vincent, 44, was convicted following a jury trial in late October of strangulation and attempted second-degree assault for attacking Rabbi Menachem Moskowitz, 52, on April 21, 2018.
On Dec. 2, the LSGA passed a resolution that calls on CUNY to cut all ties with companies that “aid in or profit from Israeli colonization, occupation and war crimes.”
The lawyers reminded the administration that it signed a Resolution Agreement with the U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights, “in which it agreed to take certain measures to address allegations of anti-Semitism.”
In an editors’ note, the newspaper acknowledged that its reporting did not accurately reflect the facts.
“As someone who has been repeatedly attacked by Zahra Billoo for almost 15 years, I am amused that the Anti-Defamation League, Jewish Federations, Hillels and ‘Zionist synagogues’ only become upset with her when she called them out as ‘polite Zionists,’ ” said Daniel Pipes, president of the Middle East Forum. “Glad you woke up, guys, and welcome to the club.”
“The report hides behind misleading claims of ‘academic freedom’ to treat Jewish concerns with an extraordinary level of hesitation absent from similar university reports on other minority groups,” said Douglas Sandoval, managing editor of CAMERA on Campus.
