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Hen Mazzig

Hen Mazzig runs the Tel Aviv Institute, a non-profit organization dedicated to combating online antisemitism. He has been named one of the top 50 LGBTQ+ influencers.

The iconic Van Wickle Gates, dedicated in 1901, at Brown University in Providence, R.I. Credit: Carol M. Highsmith/U.S. Library of Congress via Wikimedia Commons.

Don’t bring Francesca Albanese to Brown University!

The U.N.'s special rapporteur justified the Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas calling it a “reaction” to Israeli oppression.

Hen Mazzig

Sep. 12, 2024

A “Free Palestine” sign on display with the University of Minnesota's gopher mascot that was erected by the school's Students for Justice in Palestine chapter. Source: SJP via Facebook.

Crisis at the University of Minnesota

Condoning antisemitism disguised as activism.

Hen Mazzig

May. 23, 2024

Claudine Gay of Harvard University. Source: YouTube/Screenshot.

Harvard president’s resignation will not end antisemitism

Gay’s departure should not be the end of the conversation.

Hen Mazzig

Jan. 3, 2024

Donald Trump and Kanye ("Ye") West. Source: Twitter.

We must beware of the normalization of antisemitism

If society crosses a tipping point into mass violence against Jews, history shows that it will not stop with them.

Hen Mazzig

Nov. 30, 2022

Protesters in Boston advocate for the anti-Israel BDS movement on July 1, 2020. Courtesy: CAMERA.

Rosh Hashanah threats show that Jewish students are being targeted

At our most sacred time of year, we must stand strong against anti-Semitism on campus.

Hen Mazzig

Oct. 11, 2022

A Yemenite family walks through the desert to a reception camp set up by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee near Aden. Nov. 1, 1949. Credit: Zoltan Kluger/Wikimedia Commons.

The real reason that Mizrahi Jews support Israel

Iranian-born professor Saba Soomekh says pro-Israel nationalism is a natural extension of Mizrahi pain; it’s “the only place we are accepted.”

Hen Mazzig

Aug. 7, 2020

James Tissot's depiction of a young Jesus at the Temple in Jerusalem (Luke 2:46), c. 1890 Brooklyn Museum. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Jesus was not a Palestinian, he was a Mizrahi Jew

In modern terms, all Jews were once “Mizrahi Jews.” Therefore, if you want to give Jesus a contemporary ethnicity, it is Mizrahi Jew that fits, not “Palestinian.”

Hen Mazzig

Dec. 24, 2019

A Yemenite family walks through the desert to a reception camp set up by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee near Aden. Nov. 1, 1949. Credit: Zoltan Kluger/Wikimedia Commons.

We need a Jewish reorientation towards the East

We must remember that the Jewish world is centered in the East, where the Jewish people began, and where today, in Israel, our peoplehood is maintained and continues to blossom.

Hen Mazzig

Aug. 12, 2019

A monument in Ramat Gan, Israel, that serves as a memorial for the Iraqi Jews who were killed during the Farhud (“violent dispossession”) in June 1941. Credit: PikiWiki Israel.

Imperialism, colonialism and oppression in the Middle East

Who hears today about the millions of people who suffered expulsion, persecution and genocide under Turkish and Arab imperialism?

Hen Mazzig

Apr. 29, 2019