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“Despite our relatively small population, these attacks show no signs of slowing down as our community was targeted the most among religiously motivated crimes,” said Michael Master, national director and CEO of the Secure Community Network.
He said about his Jewish faith: “I was raised to believe that giving back to your community is the good and right way, and that we were needed to uphold the faith, and if we upheld it, we would be doing right.”
“I am honored to announce that I will be arriving in Tel Aviv today to begin my post,” Al Jalahma tweets in Hebrew, Arabic and English.
The Philadelphia Free Library said that it would be auditing its social-media posts, which with all its branches was going to be time-consuming; update its blog guidelines and social-media policy; and meet with members of the Jewish community to help guide the library in the future.
“We rely heavily on primary-source documents, firsthand accounts, survivor testimony, eyewitness reports at the time photographs taken at the time,” said teacher Rachel Pignato. “We don’t want to really rely on some other person’s perspective of what happened. We want to hear from the people who went through it. So that becomes a cornerstone of the course.”
Intelligence gathered by the famed agent was crucial to a 1973 Israeli raid on Lebanon in which three top PLO leaders, as well as some 100 other terrorists, were eliminated.
The organization is concerned about a class by assistant professor Shamma Boyarin, who has lashed out at Jews online and posted derogatory images and statements on his personal Twitter account, Motley Jëw.
Rabbi Shlomo Litvin, a Chabad-Lubavitch emissary in Kentucky, called the comparison“horrific,” saying “it’s ahistorical and amoral.”
The Durban IV Conference is slated to take place at U.N. headquarters in New York City on Sept. 22.
“They did not choose any other place or event,” said the group Action and Communication on the Middle East, “but precisely the location where more than a million people were murdered.”
Alums for Campus Fairness said that Students for Justice in Palestine’s “history of activism often goes far beyond legitimate criticism of Israel, descending into outright anti-Semitism.”
Tanya Cohen said “the guy was definitely trying to pick a fight with a Jew. We are in 2021. This shouldn’t be happening anymore. In 2021, there is no room for anti-Semitism.”
