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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.

November 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.

October 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.”

August 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.”

December 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.

August 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?

April 29, 2019

An event flyer for J Street U's hosting of a speaker from the NGO Breaking the Silence at the Washington University in St. Louis Hillel on March 31, 2014. Credit: Facebook.

My unpleasant evening with ‘Breaking the Silence’

April 3, 2014