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Students for Justice in Palestine Group Loses Lawsuit Against Columbia University - Algemeiner.com

A New York judge has upheld Columbia University's suspension of its Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter, a measure taken against the campus group after it launched of spree of assaults, hate campaigns, and disruptive protests following the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas's massacre...

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Lemkin, who represented the family at a UN event marking the 65th anniversary of the genocide convention, described himself as “totally outraged” to see his late relative’s name used to push an anti-Israel agenda. His father was Raphael Lemkin’s first cousin.

“Members of our family were killed in the Holocaust, and Rafael Lemkin would be outraged by the use of his name and the abuse of the word genocide,” Joseph Lemkin said in a statement to The Algemeiner that was copied to eight of his family members. “Our family fully supports Israel’s right to defend itself and are fully in favor of US policies to support Israel. Indeed, we have many family members in Israel; family members who have served in the IDF [Israel Defense Forces] and others that have been impacted by the terror of Hamas.”

The family is discussing possible steps ranging from a joint public statement to a cease-and-desist letter aimed at getting the Philadelphia organization to drop the name.

The co-founder and executive director of the institute, Elisa von Joeden-Forgey, was previously an assistant professor and director of the masters program in Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Stockton University in New Jersey.

Joeden-Forgey did not respond to two emails and two cellphone voicemail messages from The Algemeiner left both last and this week seeking comment. Her co-founder, Irene Victoria Massimino, told The Algemeiner that she is no longer with the Lemkin Institute and “cannot speak on its behalf.”

A Pathbreaking International Lawyer Dedicated to Zionism

Lemkin was born in Poland in 1900 and eventually escaped the Nazis to America, where he joined the War Department, documenting Nazi atrocities and preparing for the prosecution of Nazi crimes at the Nuremberg trials. He dedicated much of his life to making the world recognize the horrors of the Holocaust and designating mass murder as a crime which could be prosecuted through international law. Forty-nine members of his family, including his parents, were killed in the Holocaust. He died in 1959 in relative obscurity.

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Exposed: Anti-Israel Group Under Fire for Using Name of Raphael Lemkin, Zionist Who Coined the Term Genocide - Algemeiner.com

Members of the family of Raphael Lemkin, a Jewish lawyer who coined the term "genocide" and pushed for the passage of the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide, say they are outraged that a Pennsylvania-based nonprofit organization is using the Lemkin name to pursue an...

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Notice what these attackers aren’t saying. They aren’t expressing themselves in the faddish language of anti-Zionism. They aren’t denouncing Israeli policy or speaking up for Palestinian rights. They aren’t trying to make careful distinctions between Jews and Israelis. They are, like generations of pogromists before them, simply out to get the Jews — a reminder, if one was needed, of the truth often attributed to Maya Angelou: “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.”

Which makes it even more remarkable how strenuously some people initially tried to obscure the nature of the Amsterdam pogrom. The media are rarely shy about calling out certain kinds of hate crimes as racist. Yet for days the word “antisemitic” was either put inside quotation marks or attributed to Dutch officials when talking about the violence. The identity of the attackers has been treated as a mystery, or a secret, beyond delicate references to people with “a migration background,” in the words of Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof.

A great deal of attention has also been paid to some Israeli fans who pulled down a Palestinian flag, vandalized a taxi and, in Hebrew, chanted ugly anti-Arab phrases. There’s no excuse for any of that. But rowdy English soccer fans in Germany have been known to celebrate German war casualties. Somehow it doesn’t lead to a frenzy of organized violence.

Nor does it add any light to provide the “context” of the war in Gaza as a way of trying to understand what happened in Amsterdam. No decent person would explain anti-Asian attacks in the United States by observing that attackers might be angry about, say, China’s human-rights abuses or its biosafety standards.

Yet so many supposedly decent people are quick to try to account for the evil that is done to Jews through reference to the evil (as they see it) that Jews do to others. As Leon Wieseltier pointed out years ago, this type of reasoning is not an explanation for antisemitism. It’s the essence of antisemitism.

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Opinion | A Worldwide ‘Jew Hunt’

Antisemitism is reaching the point of catastrophe, for Jews and for Europe itself.

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Jews are Jesus-killers and Israel is uniquely aggressive: what Irish pupils are taught

Community leaders in Ireland reveal that Jewish pupils are changing schools to escape hate as new report exposes shocking bias in textbooks

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University of Michigan Student Government Impeaches Anti-Zionist President - Algemeiner.com

The University of Michigan's Central Student Government (CSG) has impeached President Alifa Chowdury, the anti-Zionist leader of the extremist Shut It Down (SID) Party that has, since taking office during the summer, attempted to withhold funding for campus clubs to pressure administrators into...

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Reclaiming Jewish Pride on Campus: Lessons from an Israeli Reserve Captain - Algemeiner.com

I recently traveled across the United States with Olami, a global organization committed to building Jewish identity and ensuring Jewish continuity. My goal was to connect with Jewish students on campus, and share my experiences as a reserve captain in the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) on and...

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Pro-Hamas Groups Planting Seeds of Domestic Terrorism in US, New Report Says - Algemeiner.com

Domestic terrorism may be the end game for the over 150 pro-Hamas groups operating on colleges campuses and elsewhere across the US to foster anti-Israel demonstrations, according to a new report by the Capital Research Center (CRC) think tank. "The movement contains militant elements pushing it...

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University of Michigan Student Government Impeaches Anti-Zionist President - Algemeiner.com

The University of Michigan's Central Student Government (CSG) has impeached President Alifa Chowdury, the anti-Zionist leader of the extremist Shut It Down (SID) Party that has, since taking office during the summer, attempted to withhold funding for campus clubs to pressure administrators into...

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for the record---CHOWDURY is a surname for muslims from South east Asia

 

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Lego store refuses to make figurine featuring yellow hostage ribbon - Jewish News

University professor told by Manhattan branch manager that kidnapped Israelis are a political issue

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Poland condemns vandalism after Warsaw Ghetto Uprising memorial sprayed with red paint.

Law enforcement officers write a report as a worker cleans the red-black paint stain on a monument to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in Warsaw on November 15, 2024. Sergei Gapon / AFP).
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November 16, 2024.

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WARSAW — The Polish foreign ministry on Friday condemned “an act of vandalism” after a monument to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was sprayed with paint, an incident that drew protest from the Israeli ambassador.

“Such acts are an attack on history and the values that unite us as a society,” the foreign ministry said on social media platform X.

Israel’s ambassador to Warsaw, Yacov Livne, posted a picture on social media showing a patch of red paint on the memorial, which was erected to commemorate the Jewish fighters who revolted against Nazi Germany in 1943.

An AFP photographer present at the scene on Friday saw cleaners removing the rectangle of paint about 50 centimeters (20 inches) long. Police were also at the site.

The 11-meter (36-foot) memorial is located at the site of several of the uprising’s armed clashes and is outside the popular Polin Museum established to commemorate the history of Polish Jews.

Livne urged Polish authorities to “find the culprits” behind the incident “and bring them to justice.”

“This isn’t the first act of anti-Semitic vandalism here. Only determined action will put an end to it,” he said on X.

Poland was occupied by Nazi Germany during World War II. Six million Poles died, including three million Jews.

Up to around 450,000 Jews were crowded into the Warsaw ghetto, an area of around three square kilometers (one square mile).

When Nazi forces began deporting Jews to death camps, some of those in Warsaw put up armed resistance on April 19, 1943.

Poland condemns vandalism after Warsaw Ghetto Uprising memorial sprayed with red paint

Polish foreign ministry says 'such acts are an attack on history and the values that unite us as a society'; Israeli envoy urges 'determined action' to stop antisemitism

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Police raid Vancouver home tied to a leader of recently designated terrorist group | Globalnews.ca

Neighbours awoke to the sound of a "bang" and saw an armoured police vehicle and heavily armed members of the Vancouver Police Department's Emergency Response Team.

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Last weekend, neo-Nazis demonstrated at a performance of Anne Frank in Michigan. This weekend, more were parading in Ohio. Displays of hate are on the rise. We need our leaders to denounce them. https://abcnews.go.com/US/masked-group-marches-ohio-neighborhood-swastikas-flags/story?id=115937210

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