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David Bernstein

David Bernstein is founder of the Jewish Institute for Liberal Values and author of Woke Antisemitism.

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Academic anti-Zionists’ new initiative

“Critical Zionist Studies” revives and rehabilitates Soviet anti-Zionist propaganda.

David Bernstein

August 28, 2023

The U.N. General Assembly commemorates the 20th anniversary of the adoption of Durban Declaration and Programme of Action, Sept. 22, 2021. Credit: U.N. Photo/Cia Pak.

Twenty years after Durban, what we still get wrong about left-wing anti-Semitism

Talking about the anti-Semitism at Durban without reference to postcolonialist ideology is like talking about the attacks of Sept. 11 without reference to extreme Islamist ideology.

David Bernstein

September 26, 2021

An illustrative view of a school-board meeting of the Oakland Unified School District. In May 2020, the school board passed a resolution stating that it supports “the California Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum Draft as written," despite concerns over anti-Semitism. Source: Screenshot.

A new Israel-hating curriculum is coming to California school districts

The curriculum authors, who define Zionism as “a nationalist, colonial ideology,” claim that Israel’s “settler colonialism” has “pedagogical importance.”

David Bernstein and Pamela Paresky

August 17, 2021

Israeli children wearing face masks make their way to school in Tzfat on their first day back to classes on Nov. 1, 2020. Photo by David Cohen/Flash90.

Jewish day schools should not teach critical race theory as established dogma

Is this really the only way to teach about racial equality? The obvious answer is no.

David Bernstein

June 7, 2021

Click photo to download. Caption: Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon (pictured at right) unveiled the Israeli stall at the Adex 2014 International Defense Industry Exhibition in Azerbaijan on Sept. 11, 2014. Ya'alon's trip marked the first official state visit to Azerbaijan by an Israeli defense minister. Credit: Ariel Hermoni/Ministry of Defense/Flash90.

Israel’s emerging Muslim-majority ally

David Bernstein

October 21, 2014