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Aidan Segal

Daniel Kovalik, an international human-rights professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, on RT America news talking about the Tree of Life shooting in Pittsburgh in October 2018. Source: Screenshot.

The absurdity of a human-rights professor’s anti-Semitism

The anti-Zionist talking points of Daniel Kovalik, an international human-rights professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, are long exhausted and long discredited.

Aidan Segal

February 3, 2022

Jewish Voice for Peace. Photo courtesy of NGO Monitor.

The strange myth of Red Zion

Columnist Jonathan Power presents not only a case study epitomizing the necessity for the Jewish state’s location in historical Israel, but an exercise in the pathetic lengths anti-Zionists will go to delegitimize said Jewish state.

Aidan Segal

December 28, 2021

Vigil for the Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha Synagogue shooting victims.

American Jewish identity, three years after the Tree of Life shooting

I hope in future generations, when they ask what we did with this precious inheritance of ours, that the history books will say we rose to the occasion—that we honored our fallen and strengthened our children by being unapologetic, uncompromising Jews.

Aidan Segal

October 27, 2021

People pay their respects at a memorial in front of the Tree of Life Synagogue in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh to the 11 Jewish victims of a mass shooting a week earlier, Nov. 4, 2018. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

The hardest blow? To speak the truth

It’s not uncharacteristic of student newspapers to employ reporters who distort what Israel does or columnists who demonize what Israel is.

Aidan Segal

June 25, 2021

The Mellon Institute of Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Credit: Jay Yuan/Shutterstock.

Pittsburgh universities must adopt the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism

After the city saw worst incident of anti-Jewish violence on American soil, schools can, at the very least, lessen the burden for students by acknowledging this all-too-real threat.

Aidan Segal

May 24, 2021

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