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Following the announcement of Lowkey’s appearance, the British Union of Jewish Students (UJS) reportedly met with NUS leaders to raise objections, which it claims were immediately slapped down.

UJS President Nina Freedman told the Jewish Chronicle that instead, officials proffered “insufficient and frankly offensive mitigations,” while also suggesting that Jewish students feeling uncomfortable with his appearance should leave the conference and sit in an “existing safe space” that had been designated for people who are sensitive to loud noises.

Binyomin Gilbert, the program manager at Campaign Against Antisemitism, commented: “Headlining such a person is bad enough, but telling appalled Jews to go and stand in the corner whilst everyone else dances is segregationist and disgusting. Instead of showing solidarity with Jews, NUS is literally casting Jews aside.”

Yet, Lowkey was not the only controversial figure invited to headline an event for a union that claims to be actively working against “all forms of racism.”

Also asked to address students is the current Labour member of parliament for Coventry South, Zarah Sultana, who shortly after taking up her seat in the House of Commons in 2019, was forced to apologize after it emerged she had told an Israel supporter they should “jump off a cliff.”

In another Twitter message, Sultana reportedly compared the Holocaust to the death of people in Iraq, Afghanistan and Chechnya. She was furthermore asked to issue another apology for saying she would “celebrate” the deaths of former Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and ex-British PM Tony Blair.

Following coverage of the controversy (see here and here), the NUS revealed in a statement that Lowkey had taken it upon himself to pull out of the March 30 event, with the union announcing “he will no longer be appearing.”

However, rather than admitting it had made an error of judgment, the NUS sent out a statement to students in which it suggested the union was “horrified” to learn that some Jewish members might feel uncomfortable despite the fact it was informed of this just several days earlier.

The NUS proceeded to claim that while it welcomes “genuine political debate,” it had been “sad to see the use of harassment and misinformation against Lowkey.” In addition, the NUS argued that media outlets that had simply republished the rapper’s own comments were guilty of using such “tactics” towards “activists and people of colour.”

The entire debacle sheds light on the type of hostility faced by Jewish and Israel-supporting students on university campuses — something HonestReporting has documented on numerous occasions (see here, here, here and here). A hostility that, as the NUS’ most recent statement appears to suggest, will continue to be ignored.

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National Union of Students Invites Rapper Who Sings About 'Zionist Lobby' to Perform, Tells Complaining Jewish Students to Segregate Themselves | HonestReporting

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One year ago, the last handful of Jewish families in Yemen were deported from the country by the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels, marking the end of the 2,600 year old Jewish community in Yemen.

Here we have not only a human rights violation of forcible deportation but a complete ethnic cleansing of a venerable minority group from a country.

Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch did not say a word about this, though. The eradication of the Jewish community didn't reach the threshold of what is noteworthy to human rights groups. Their Yemen pages don't mention Jews, and neither did their annual reports' Yemen sections.

Amnesty prides itself on fighting to release political prisoners. Levi Salem Marhabi is a Jew in ill health who remains tortured in a Yemen prison. Even though a Yemen court ruled that he should be released in 2019, and even though his release was supposed to be part of the deal to deport Yemen's Jews, he remains imprisoned today.

The US State Department has called for his release. The plight of the Jews of Yemen and of Marhabi specifically were mentioned in US government annual reports on human rights.

Amnesty, and HRW, have been silent about Levi Salem Marhabi.

The last time Amnesty said anything about the Jews in Yemen was in 2008. That was also the last time HRW mentioned them as an aside.

The antisemitism of Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International is not only obvious from their obsessive hate of the Jewish state. It is also clear from what they decide not to report. And they bend over backwards to ignore antisemitism like this.

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Somehow, @Amnesty and @HRW missed the stories of the continuing torture of a Jew in Yemen prison and the ethnic cleansing of Jews from Yemen

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Peter Beinart has written, “It’s time to imagine a Jewish home that is not a Jewish state,” and later added that Jews were never entitled to a state in the first place. More recently, he has said that Israelis should seek repentance for the Nakba (Israel’s creation) by forfeiting Jewish sovereignty and allowing five million Palestinian refugees to “return” to the land inside the Green Line. For Beinart, the very existence of the Jewish state is an injustice, and the only proper solution is to dismantle it. To end the conflict, he maintains, there must be an end to Zionism.

In his latest effort to delegitimize the Jewish state, “Justifications for Destroying a People” (Jewish Currents), Beinart argues that Israel’s treatment of Palestinians is worthy of Vladimir Putin.

Pursuing the analogy, Beinart then goes on to play the race card: “In mainstream American discourse, Ukrainians, a mostly white and Christian people battling an American foe, are viewed as fully human, and thus entitled to fight for their freedom. Palestinians, a mostly nonwhite and non-Christian people battling an American ally, are not.” So if we could get over those prejudices, we would realize that Palestinian stabbing attacks and rocket barrages into civilian areas have the same moral value as Ukrainian attempts to fight off an unprovoked foreign invasion. Sure, that works.

Beinart argues that, just as Putin does with Ukraine, “Israeli politicians and commentators routinely link Palestinianism [whatever that is] and Nazism.” He doesn’t say who those Israelis are. But whatever they may or may not have said, there is in fact a long-standing link between Palestinian “resistance” and the Nazis themselves, as well as Nazi ideology.

It began with the Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, leader of the Palestinian national movement during the Mandate period. An inveterate antisemite, the Mufti traveled to Germany, where he met with Hitler, sought an alliance with the Nazis, and asked them to help eliminate Jews from the Arab world. (Beinart disingenuously accuses “Israeli politicians and commentators” of falsely claiming that the Mufti “convinced Hitler to launch the Holocaust” itself.)

Hitler offered his support for the Arabs in Israel, and the Mufti’s plan came close to fruition. As Colin Shindler relates in his “History of Modern Israel”: “Had it not been for the victory at El Alamein, SS Obersturmbannfuhrer Walter Rauff would have ordered his Einsatzkommando to liquidate the Jews of Palestine. The Nazis expected local participation in their actions.”

As historian Efraim Karsh has documented, Nazi-style antisemitism, including the usual Nazi tropes, has continued among Palestinian officials to this day. “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion” is popular with the Palestinian Authority, and is often cited in its largest daily, al-Hayat al-Jadida. Palestinian students are indoctrinated with antisemitic ideology, much like in Nazi Germant. But in Beinart’s world, Israelis who highlight such truths are dehumanizing Palestinians.

And how does Hamas fit into Beinart’s analogy? Are they part of the righteous Palestinian resistance — freedom fighters, victimized by the Putinesque Israeli regime?

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Peter Beinart Sinks Even Lower, Comparing Israel to Putin - Algemeiner.com

Peter Beinart has written, “It’s time to imagine a Jewish home that is not a Jewish state,” and later added that Jews were never entitled to a state in the first place. More recently, he has said that Israelis should seek repentance for the Nakba (Israel's creation) by forfeiting Jewish...

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The subsequent apologetic editor’s note citing the“need for a more critical editing eye, and a stronger understanding of the violent history and contemporary manifestations of anti-Semitism,” apparently had little lasting impact on Hussain’s journalistic compass for fair and professional reporting about Israel and Jews.

Last year, she was one of at least 10 Los Angeles Times journalists who repudiated the fundamental values of ethical journalism when she endorsed the open letter signed by hundreds of journalists calling for advocacy reporting featuring a fixed mold starring Israeli oppressors imposing “military occupation and apartheid” and hapless Palestinian victims (“From journalists, to journalists: Why reporting on Palestine has to change”).

Hussain’s commitment to this “contextualized truth,” as the renegade journalists call it, is readily apparent in her March 15 Los Angeles Times article, “A Worker Objected to Google’s Israel military contract. Google told her to move to Brazil.”

One might think that Israel’s “military occupation and apartheid” would be far afield for a tech reporter, but that’s the thing about “contextualized truth”: it enables the writer to bend, massage and contort both subject and facts at will. What’s relevant is what serves the predetermined essential narrative of “Israel’s oppression of Palestinians.”

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From Berkeley to LA Times: Suhauna Hussain's Journey In Unethical Journalism

From student editor responsible for publication of a notorious cartoon dripping in antisemitic motifs to Los Angeles Times tech writer practicing unethical journalism in

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[Sixties Fan]

There is something ironic about the western need to hold on to the artificial Christian Palestine. It is also the height of hypocrisy. Because the stronghold sits primarily on the left – with the Quakers, the Methodists, and throughout the Christian world of NGOs. It is promoted inside movements that preach about anti-racism, shudder at the thought of cultural appropriation, spin stories about the need for decolonisation and help tear down the statues of the slave traders.

They stand strong on each point and push these ‘progressive’ values, deconstructing their oppressive, colonial history in every area – except one – Palestine. Because on that issue, they are religiously stuck. Of all the progressive issues – only the rights of the Jews do not count. Progressive cries about tearing down the statues of slave traders are followed by the more traditional refrains that ‘the Jews betrayed god. Palestine is our Holy Land. Long live ancient Palestine!’

This is why each Christmas the Palestinian propagandists play large on the Christmas tale just as they squeeze every last Christian Arab out of Bethlehem. They are piggybacking on an ancient Christian hatred. And in turn explains why so many Church groups, despite the oppression of Christians by the Palestinian Islamists, are so quick to join anti-Israel boycott movements.

And it is important to remember this when you see it. This is not about Soviet propaganda or PLO revisionism. Those are incidental allies. This is the real big bad, it is the root of western hostility to Israel, and it is why it is so unmoveable. It is Christian revisionism – an ideology that wants to wipe the Jews out and spent centuries literally trying to make it happen. It may be an unfortunate coincidence that Prof. Joann Fletcher is based in York, the site of a massacre of the Jews in 1190which carried the seeds of the total expulsion of Jews from England a century later – but it is still a highly symbolic one.

This anti-Jewish, Christian revisionism has no place in modern society. It has no place in academia. It certainly has no place on the BBC, where they periodically dress up their promotion of Christian replacement ideology in historical documentaries, or as a caring human rights case for the modern Palestinian cause. It is time we draw a line under this, call it out for what it is, and make sure that we never see this type of ahistorical offensive stunt ever again.

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BBC, the revision of history and the invention of Ancient Palestine

Ancient Palestine existed 3000 years ago - that's according to a BBC2 historical documentary that has been seen almost 10 million times.

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Deadly Exchange alleges that such law enforcement training programmes fuel racist policing practices against minority communities in America and militarises the approach to crime and protests.

It often includes antisemitic narratives that Jewish power and money, through Jewish communal institutions, foment violence and racism against African-Americans. However, as CAMERA and other organisations have shown, the charge is a total lie. In fact, the proponents of the Deadly Exchange smear have never given one actual example tying police officers trained in Israel to any actual incidents of racist-inspired police brutality.

Indeed, ADL’s program is strictly focused on counter-terrorism for senior US police officials. It deals with management and policy issues, not specific tactical training, and doesn’t train beat cops on ordinary police work, such as how to make arrests of regular criminal suspects.

Readers of this blog may recall that, in 2020, Labour MP Rebecca Long-Bailey was dismissed by party leader Keir Starmer from her role as shadow education secretary after she praised an interview with actress Maxine Peake that advanced a Deadly Exchange-inspired allegation.

During the interview in the Independent, Peake falsely claimed that “The tactics used by the police in America, kneeling on George Floyd’s neck…was learnt from seminars with Israeli secret services”. The actress later apologised for her remarks, acknowledging that she was wrong. The Independent issued a correction, noting that the article was “amended to further clarify that the allegation that US police were taught tactics of “neck kneeling” by Israeli secret services is unfounded”.

A subsequent Channel 4 News fact-check similarly found that her allegations were false.

Turning now to the Guardian, which published an article on March 17th co-written by their US correspondent Sam Levine and Alex Kane, a reporter at the anti-Zionist site Jewish Currents, titled “ADL leaders debated ending police delegations to Israel, memo reveals”.

The article’s second paragraph introduces the subject by legitimising the antisemitic criticism:

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Guardian promotes antisemitic "deadly exchange" campaign

Deadly Exchange is the name of a campaign promoted by Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), a radical, anti-Zionist group that partners with terrorists and anti-Semites

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Wednesday’s decision by Dutch publisher Ambo Anthos to withdraw the book came on the heels of a damning 69-page critique of the book by a team of Dutch historians. The historians described the original research for the book as “amateurish,” emphasizing that there was “no serious evidence for this grave accusation.” The publisher has now withdrawn the book from distribution and asked bookshops to return their stocks. Ambo Anthos had suspended printing of the book in January after questions were raised concerning its veracity.

Dutch Publisher Withdraws Widely-Panned Book on Anne Frank After Historians Dismiss ‘Amateurish’ Research Claiming Jewish Official Betrayed Her Family - Algemeiner.com

The Dutch publisher of a much-criticized book claiming that the teenage Jewish diarist Anne Frank was betrayed to the Nazis by a Dutch Jewish official has withdrawn the title from circulation. Published in January, the book — "The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation" — concluded...

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[JoeBlow]

How does one stop Antisemitism? Which is another word for Jew hatred .
First it was Judeophobia, and then a German Jew-hater changed the expression to Antisemitism in the 19th century. Nothing changes, It is all the same.

Many groups like to say that Jews are against Israel or against Judaism.

This one seems to be one of them. And there probably are many others, which I will post in the future.

Jew hatred may morph, but the intent is always the same.

Let us try to stop it.

This site embraces Holocaust deniers like Sunni man.

 

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This boycott, too, has since begun to fade, as a rising tide of Arab youth seek to engage their Israeli neighbors. But now a fourth iteration of the boycott has emerged, this time driven largely by foreigners. The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement brings together Islamist, far-left, and hardline Palestinian elites—primarily in Europe and the Americas—in a campaign to drive a cultural and economic wedge between Israelis and their global partners.

The history of boycotts against Israel is marked by several consistent patterns. First, boycotts have not only failed to defeat Israel and its people; they have actually spurred innovation, invigorating Israeli economy and society. At the same time, boycotts have harmed Arab societies and economies, and the techniques used in these boycotts have spread to other conflicts within Arab societies, hardening sectarian attitudes and increasing intra-communal divisions, thereby contributed to the disintegration of fractured nation-states including Yemen, Iraq, Libya, and Syria. Furthermore, the boycotts have effectively isolated Palestinians within the West Bank and Gaza from the region: While hardline “resistance” factions have enjoyed support from numerous external powers, the Palestinians working to build institutions for a future state could hardly find Arab partners. Nor could they work hand in hand with Israelis in engaging the region—a role which would have empowered them economically.

To rebuild and revitalize the region, we must break with this tragic history: We must overcome the boycott, for the benefit of all, moving from a mindset of segregation to a policy of integration. The following study traces the impact of all four phases of the boycott on Israelis and on Arabs. It then outlines a project to transition to a “post-boycott region,” in which the benefits of partnership overcome the folly of exclusion.

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How the BDS Movement Harms Arab Interests - The American Interest

Successive boycotts of Israel and its people have done incalculable harm to Arab countries. It’s time to move forward to a post-boycott region.

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Israel gets alot of foreign aid, plus grants to pay off their loans, plus reparations from Germany.

 

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A January report by Israeli education watchdog IMPACT-se found that the PA had failed to deliver on promises made to European partners to purge its curriculum of antisemitic and violent themes. In one example of study cards for eleventh graders, IMPACT-se found, Jews are accused of being “in control of global events through financial power” and leveraging “Zionist influence” to trigger wars between major powers.

The report’s findings troubled Brussels, according to a recent Haaretz report, prompting Oliver Varhelyi, EU Commissioner representative of Hungary and Commissioner for Neighborhood and Enlargement, to propose withholding 10 million euros from a Palestinian aid package unless the Palestinian Authority agreed to reform its curriculum to meet the standards of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

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“Following years of discussion and legislation in Brussels, there is now too much opposition from the European Parliament, the Commission, and the Council itself to transfer massive sums of money to the PA while it brazenly continues to produce antisemitic and violent textbooks, written and taught by EU-financed Palestinian civil servants,” Sheff said in a Tuesday statement. “Clearly the EU does not want to stop aid funding altogether, but the PA point-blank refuses to make any changes at all to the textbooks as per the examples we have provided EU policymakers. The PA does not seem inclined to offer the EU a way out.”

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Palestinian Authority Official Confirms Freeze on Millions in European Aid Over Textbook Concerns - Algemeiner.com

Palestinian Authority (PA) officials have confirmed that the European Union has delayed hundreds of millions of euros in aid because of concerns over hateful materials in PA textbooks. PA Foreign Minister Riyad Al-Maliki told the radio station Palestinian Voice on Monday that there has been "no...

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Students for Justice in Palestine at the AU, along with six other AU-sponsored departments, has invited The Nation’s Palestine correspondent Mohammed El-Kurd as part of a settler-colonialism lecture series on March 17. Providing a space for Palestinians to speak about their experiences is necessary to foster inclusive dialogue surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

In fact, as an Israeli, it’s crucial to create space for diverse experiences regarding the conflict. That being said, El-Kurd has completely rejected my Israeli identity as illegitimate, all the while spreading violent antisemitism in his rhetoric.

El-Kurd, like the AU, has an extensive history of normalizing antisemitism. Firstly, El-Kurd has equated Israelis to neo-Nazi pigs. El-Kurd’s equation of Jews to neo-Nazis paints the Jewish people as their oppressors, blatantly insulting the memory of the Holocaust.

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Lastly, El-Kurd described Zionism as a death cult. Zionism is the right for the Jewish people to self-determination in their ancestral homeland. Zionism, like keeping the laws of Shabbat or wearing a yarmulke, is an expression of Jewish identity. Dubbing this integral facet of Jewish identity deathly seeks to portray Judaism as a whole as a death cult.

It did not take long for me to find these statements by El-Kurd. Just a quick Google search and I found antisemitic after antisemitic Tweet and Instagram repost. So, I ask AU’s administration: how can you in good conscience claim to fight antisemitism, while endorsing a lecture led by an antisemite? Don’t claim to fight antisemitism if you aren’t willing to protect Jewish students on campus.

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Fight antisemitism or it'll run rampant - opinion

Jewish students across the US experience antisemitism regularly.

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Nides’s main qualification for the job had been yelling “You don’t want to f***ing defund UNESCO” at a former Israeli ambassador. He had also vocally opposed efforts to defund UNRWA and stop subsidizing the terror refugee industry. He has also served on the board of the International Rescue Committee, which has repeatedly attacked Israel.

J Street, the anti-Israel pressure group, welcomed Nides’s nomination and announced that it “looked forward to working” with him. Other anti-Israel groups, including the Israel Policy Forum and Americans for Peace Now (APN), echoed the sentiment.

It didn’t take long for Nides to justify their faith in his hostility to the Jewish state.

Early on, Nides announced that he wanted to open an occupation consulate to the terrorists in Jerusalem, over the opposition of the Israeli government, and that he would not visit those parts of Israel wrongly described as “settlements” because they’re claimed by Islamic terrorists.

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Biden’s Israel ambassador tells BDS group he wants Jews out of Jerusalem

“Your agenda is where my heart is,” is what Nides told APN, which opposes Jews living in Jerusalem and opposes anti-BDS legislation. Op-ed.

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The bulbous nosed Jewish stereotype has been used since the Middle ages and was a regular feature of Nazi-era propaganda. Now we see it at one of the top public universities in America.







UC Berkeley has had more of its share of antisemitic activities. There have been assaults on Jewish students, swastikas carved into dorm doors and bathroom stalls, and exhibits glorifying the murderers of Jews. This has a cumulative effect on the psyches of Jewish students, Israeli students, and pro-Israel students and has contributed to creating an unsafe space on campus.

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UC Berkeley Group posts antisemitic charicature

Everyday antisemitism at UC Berkeley. On World Water Day, Cal Berkeley's Palestinian Public Health group posted an antisemitic charicature o...

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Launched in 2005, the BDS campaign opposes Zionism — a movement supporting the Jewish people’s right to self-determination — and rejects Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish nation-state. It seeks to isolate the country comprehensively, including via economic, political, and cultural boycotts. Official guidelines issued for the campaign’s academic boycott state that “projects with all Israeli academic institutions should come to an end,” and delineate specific restrictions that adherents should abide by — for instance, denying letters of recommendation to students who seek to study in Israel.

The campaign has been widely condemned by Jewish leaders worldwide, including major American Jewish organizations, for rejecting Jewish rights and trafficking in antisemitic tropes, while it has been advanced by anti-Zionist activists and supporters as a vehicle to advance Palestinian human rights.

On Wednesday, MESA said what the resolution’s passage “means in terms of potentially new policies or practice is yet to be determined” by leadership. It also denied that an academic boycott would alienate individual Israeli scholars.

Norman Stillman, professor emeritus of Judaic History at the University of Oklahoma and chair of the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa, a competing academic society, said on Wednesday that MESA “has abandoned any pretext of being an academic association in favor of an organization with a singular political cause: to delegitimize Israel.”

He pointed out that while Israel is the highest ranked Middle Eastern country in the annual Freedom House ratings, no other country in the region was targeted by MESA’s initiative, which he said is “deeply rooted in old biases and prejudice.”

Speaking to The Algemeiner on Wednesday, Smith College Professor Donna Robinson Divine likewise called the vote “shameful.”

“It compromises the academic integrity of the association,” Divine said. “It may serve the interests of a discourse and those who control its vocabulary, but that discourse is increasingly distant from providing an accurate explanation of actual developments. Needless to say, it does nothing to provide actual help for most Palestinians wherever they reside.”

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Middle East Studies Association Votes to Boycott Israel - Algemeiner.com

The Middle East Studies Association (MESA) announced on Wednesday its endorsement of the Palestinian-led boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel. Members of the association, which is dedicated to academic study of the Middle East, moved to adopt a BDS resolution after a...

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Security officials are reporting a spate of bomb threats targeting Jewish institutions in a number of states.

The threats came into Jewish community centers around the country in recent weeks, most recently in Pennsylvania and Missouri, according to Michael Masters, who directs the Secure Community Network, a consultancy that works with national Jewish groups.

Other JCCs targeted have been in Oklahoma, Arizona and New Jersey. The threats come through online contact forms and have similar language.

The two most recent threats, in Missouri and Pennsylvania, both began, “I’ll be there at 12 to bomb your facility you ukranian jew filth i got bombs there now.”

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Bomb threats target ‘Jew filth’ at Jewish centers in a number of US states

'I’ll be there at 12 to bomb your facility you ukranian jew filth i got bombs there now,' said the two latest warnings sent to centers in Missouri and Pennsylvania

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