Antisemitism
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The International Criminal Court’s ruling to investigate Israel for alleged war crimes in Gaza “was made in sin and will inevitably end in sin,” say the families of Naftali Frenkel, Gilad Shaer and Eyal Yifrach.
“I suggest the Zionists don’t make the mistake that spurs us to action, not even through words,” says Iranian Defense Minister Amir Hatami.
Nitzan Horowitz’s remark “justifying the political and anti-Semitic action of the court at The Hague and its persecution of IDF soldiers is a disgrace to the Israeli Knesset,” says Ayelet Shaked of Yamina.
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris expressed “the administration’s complete opposition to the decision of the prosecutor in The Hague.”
Textbooks promote jihad and glorify martyrdom, as well as emphasize a neo-Ottomaonism that sees Turkey as a world power.
The coronavirus has forced Hillel to rethink its programming and services to adapt to the new reality of remote learning and provide for the well-being, both physically and mentally, of the students it serves. It hopes to carry these lessons forward when life returns to normal.
More than 400 academics sign a letter calling out a professor for “morally reprehensible” comments that “risk the personal security and well-being of Jewish students and, more widely, Jews in the U.K.”
There is “no moral or legal equivalence between Israel, a democratic state seeking to protect the lives of its civilian population, and Palestinian terrorist groups committed to indiscriminate atrocities and the destruction of the Jewish state,” said B’nai B’rith International.
“We will continue to uphold our strong commitment to Israel and its security, including by opposing actions that seek to target Israel unfairly,” U.S. State Department spokesman Ned Price told reporters.
The incident involved Martin Joseph and his large group of Orthodox Jewish family members on a flight from Miami to New York.
“The decision has no basis in law or precedent; rather, the ICC has become just another anti-Israel international organization,” Professor Eugene Kontorovich, director of International Law at the Jerusalem-based Kohelet Policy Forum, told JNS.
“Many Jews have succeeded in reaching high political office, therefore don’t need to be seen as a group needing recognition in the same way as others,” said Jo Coburn, the host of “Politics Live.”
