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Here was the scene yesterday at a "US Palestinian Community Network" rally in Chicago that was co-sponsored by American Muslims for Palestine. (Video here, starting around 13:45)

Most of the speakers simply led mindless chants to brainwash people to hate Israelis, but one speaker gave a brief, twisted synopsis of the events of the past week. In only one minute, she claimed:

* Israelis invaded, and Jews desecrated, Al Aqsa for no reason, injuring hundreds
* Israeli forces invaded the Church of the Holy Sepulchre (they didn't)
* Israel banned Muslims from the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron (they did - during two days of Passover; but during Ramadan they will ban Jews for six days!)
* The terrorist acts that started before Ramadan that have killed 14 were heroic acts of "resistance across 1948 Palestine."

This is incitement, justifications and praise for murdering Jews, in the streets of Chicago, today.

And it contributes to attacks on Jews - today. In Chicago, there has been an uptick of hate crimes against Jews, and some have been done by Chicago-area Muslims who have been exposed to this kind of hate.

(vide video online)

US Muslims inciting against Jews and praising terrorism in Chicago "#HandsOffJerusalem" rally

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For over a hundred years, Palestinian Arabs have been making up the lie that JEws are plotting against Al Aqsa mosque.

Why? Because no matter how Jews react, Palestinians end up gaining more support.



Incidentally, the lie that "Al Aqsa is in danger" is an example of something that is definitely antisemitic under the EoZ definition of antisemitism (as a "malicious lie against Jews as a people/nation"), and not obviously under the IHRA Working Definition or the others.

Palestinians cannot lose with the "Al Aqsa is in Danger" libel

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Student editors at the Chicago Maroon published a letter of apology for running an op-ed that condemned antisemitism and also removed the piecefrom their website.

The controversial op-ed had condemned Students for Justice for Palestine’s “Don’t Take Sh*tty Zionist Classes” boycott campaign.

The “sh*tty Zionist classes,” according to SJP, are “Multiculturalism in Israel,” “Narrating Israel and Palestine through Literature and Film” and “Gender Relations in Israel.”

In the now-deleted op-ed, first-year students Benjamin ZeBrack and Melody Dias had argued that the SPJ campaign was antisemitic and amounted to harassment.

They wrote that the SJP campaign actively encouraged students to drop classes taught by professors who recognize

Israel as a country. They argued this violates the university’s discrimination and harassment policies, in particular against Israeli faculty.

“This furthers the trope that Jewish courses and professors work to contribute to propaganda for Israel, which is a blatantly false narrative,” the two wrote.

They also opined in their mid-February piece that the Jewish student community is “indirectly discriminated against.”

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UChicago student newspaper editors remove op-ed denouncing antisemitism from website | The College Fix

Opinion piece had been in response to boycott campaign.

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A Jewish advocacy group is joining a Jewish University of Connecticut student’s efforts to resolve a complaint she filed after facing antisemitic harassment for removing anti-Zionist flyers posted at a school library.

On February 28, senior Natalie Shclover and her boyfriend, Zacharia El-Tayyeb, went to Homer Babbidge library to remove the flyers, when an argument ensued with four students who objected to their actions. The flyers, showing a map of Israel juxtaposed with an image of a child being strangled and a picture of university president Radenka Maric, were posted in violation of school rules, Shclover learned.

During the confrontation, one student allegedly said, “Even though you’re a Jew, you still have to respect us,” while others called her a ““f***king b**ch,” a “white supremacist,” and a “f***king Zionist.”

The incident was denounced by Jewish groups on campus and across the country, with the Anti-Defamation League saying it was “deeply disturbed.”

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The Pro-War Proclivities of Harvard’s ‘Anti-Apartheid’ Speakers - Algemeiner.com

To find more evidence of the emptiness of the “apartheid” slur against Israel, one can quickly look at this week’s “Israeli Apartheid Week” at Harvard University. These activists are not opposed to some imaginary “Israeli apartheid,” but to the right of states like Israel and Ukraine, and their...

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ewish groups this week denounced a University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign (UIUC) student activist group for holding an anti-Israel protest outside the campus’ Hillel center during Passover.

Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) included a stop at the Illini Hillel Cohen Center during what it advertised as an “emergency protest” over clashes between Palestinian rioters and Israeli police at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque.

On Monday, Illini Hillel executive director Erez Cohen called SJP’s actions “unacceptable.”

“Our students are celebrating Passover right now, and they come here for kosher food that they can’t get anywhere else,” he told The Daily Illini, a campus newspaper. “We find it really unacceptable that Jewish students need to be cornered in a situation where they need to cross through a field of yelling people to come and get their religious needs answered.”

“When people come to the Jewish center to yell against Israel, they’re creating an equation between any Jewish person and the state of Israel. That’s singling out an entire community based on a country that’s miles away.”

Cohen additionally told the campus newspaper that one of the SJP protestors committed a “verbal attack,” and that another pelted an object at Illini Hillel.

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Outcry After Anti-Israel Protest Held at University of Illinois Jewish Center - Algemeiner.com

Jewish groups this week denounced a University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign (UIUC) student activist group for holding an anti-Israel protest outside the campus' Hillel center during Passover. Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) included a stop at the Illini Hillel Cohen Center during what it...

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Crowds of anti-Israel protesters have repeatedly chanted a chilling Arabic death threat to Jews under the noses of police without a single person being charged, a JC investigation has revealed.

Officers and prosecutors have acknowledged the antisemitic cry is criminal incitement to racial hatred, with a penalty of up to seven years in jail.

But Jewish community leaders say police are “reluctant” to enforce the law even as hundreds of protesters shout out vile hate speech at demonstrations against Israel.

The chant, “Khaybar, Khaybar Ya Yahud, Jaish Mohammed Sauf Ya’ud” means “Watch Out Jews, Remember Khaybar, the Army of Mohammed is returning”.

It refers to a massacre of Jews said to have been carried out at Khaybar in Arabia in 628CE — more than 1,300 years before the modern state of Israel was founded.

The Arabic-language cry has the “official endorsement” of Al-Qaeda Central — the terror group’s global hub — which issued a statement praising those who used the chant after it was heard at demonstrations in Britain and Israel.

It said: “How did life revive in us with your glorification and your shouts with the oath of loyalty and your chants!

“How much you cooled our chests with launching your jihadi missiles at the people of Zion.”

The chant can be heard in video recordings of seven separate rallies last year, all of which took place across Britain against the background of the conflict in May between Israel and Hamas.

The first of the seven demonstrations took place in London on 11 May, 2021, and was attended by Richard Burgon, the hard-left Labour MP for Leeds East.

The chant was again in the capital on 15 May, when both former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and former shadow home secretary Diane Abbott addressed a huge crowd, which chanted “death to Israel” in Arabic.

The Khaybar cry was heard the same day at a protest in Newcastle attended by former MP and Labour National Executive member Laura Pidcock. It was also heard at another event in Manchester the same day, attended by local Labour MP Afzal Khan.

On 16 May, Geraint Davies, the Labour MP for Swansea West, made a speech attacking Israel at a rally in Wales. When he had finished, he handed the microphone to man wearing a keffiyeh who promptly used the mic to work the crowd up to a fury by leading the Khaybar chant.

It was heard again in London on 22 May at a rally addressed by former Labour deputy leader John McDonnell, and yet again at a further demonstration there the following day. On this occasion a video recording shows protesters being escorted away from the protest by police. One says very clearly in English: “We’ll find some Jews! We want the Zionists! We want their blood!”

The chant’s use in Britain dates back at least to 2010, when it was shouted at the then-Israeli deputy foreign minister Danny Ayalon when he spoke at the Oxford Union. The JC reported this at the time, and the Community Security Trust (CST) stated then it should be treated as a crime.

It was already an established battle cry used by members of al-Qaeda. After Amrozi bin Nurhasin was convicted in an Indonesian court for the 2002 Bali nightclub bombing that killed 202, he shouted “Khaybar, Khaybar, ya Yahud” as he was sentenced to death.

In 2009, Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi, described by terrorism experts as al-Qaeda’s “ideological father”, published a book that that used the words of the chant as its title.

The newly elected president of the NUS, Shaima Dallali, tweeted the hate chant in 2012, though she has now apologised for the “unacceptable” post.

The chant was recorded at a protest outside the Israeli embassy in London in 2017.

But the upsurge in its use in 2021 was triggered by the latest conflict in Gaza, which saw Hamas fire more than 4,000 rockets at Israel, followed by Israeli strikes.

Dave Rich, spokesman for the CST, told the JC that he had been in correspondence with both the police and the CPS for many months over the use of the chant. He said both have accepted that its use constitutes a crime of incitement to racial hatred under section 18 of the Public Order Act.



(full article online)

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It followed a December pronouncement by Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, who issued a strong statement recently against anti-Semitism on college campuses in a letter to all 111 university presidents in the state calling for them to take a serious look at how Jews are treated at their campuses.

“Historically, anti-Semitism has been so deadly due to its evolving nature, making it difficult to identify and address. Arizona’s legislation is a first step in the right direction given that the IHRA definition addresses contemporary anti-Semitism and provides examples of such behavior,” said StandWithUs CEO Roz Rothstein in a released statement after Arizona passed HB 2675.

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Arizona votes to adopt IHRA definition of anti-Semitism - JNS.org

It passed by a vote of 49-4 and will be considered by state authorities when they investigate incidents of crime or discrimination.

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[ Expecting the impossible from Christians ]

In the songs about Jews, whose lyrics are printed and distributed to passersby, the singers denounce “the Jews who with their false council sacrificed Jesus on the cross.”


The caroling is led by eight lead singers wearing raincoats. The oldest of the eight men smokes a cigar. He is the group’s treasurer and is nicknamed the “Judas.”

The age-old allegation of deicide against Jews has fueled countless acts of violence against Jews in Europe and beyond. According to Christian gospel, Judas Iscariot betrayed Jesus, leading to his crucifixion.


The Catholic Church in a 1965 document titled Nostra Aetate asserted that “the Jewish authorities and those who followed their lead pressed for the death of Christ” but that this cannot be “charged” against Jews today or all the Jews who were alive during the Crucifixion.


Rabbi Lody van der Kamp, who was born in the east of the Netherlands, called the tradition “unfathomable” in an interview published Wednesday in the Tubantia news site.

“It is beyond me how the residents of Ootmarsum can sing along to this knowing the history of their city,” where four Jews were gunned down during the Holocaust, he said.

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Dutch carolers intend to keep singing antisemitic Easter song

In the song about Jews, singers denounce “the Jews who with their false council sacrificed Jesus on the cross."

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Croatia Jews boycott WWII memorial, say government tolerates pro-Nazi sentiments

Jasenovac death camp, where some 100,000 were killed during Holocaust, was run by Ustasha regime, whose symbols are not banned in the country

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On April 23, video of a conversation involving Muna El-Kurd was postedon an Instagram account, during which El-Kurd begins by urging someone named Fathi not to suggest that there are Jews (not Zionists, not Israelis, but Jews) in solidarity with Palestinians. Fathi responded that yes, there is a Jew from the “left-wing” there. At this point, El-Kurd angrily interjects:

“There is no left-wing! It is all right-wing, it is all settlers, and it is all Zionist dogs. If someone wants to be in solidarity with me, he should get out of Palestine, [then] be in solidarity with me.” (Translated by CAMERA Arabic)

This statement, at best, is an open call for “Palestine” to be ethnically cleansed of Jews. This would include all of Israel, considering that she openly declares that “Palestine” is from “its sea to its river.” Considering that polls show that as many as 95% of American Jews have favorable views of Israel, the embodiment of Zionism, it seems Muna has some rather dehumanizing terminology for diaspora Jews, too. Referring to Jews as “dogs” is a common antisemitic term, particularly among Palestinians and even among antisemites at the United Nations. Chantsof “Jews are our dogs” are heard fairly regularly at demonstrations. No matter what way you slice it, Muna’s words are deplorable and overtly bigoted.

The statement also exposes the emptiness of the supposed “principles” of individuals like El-Kurd. While openly calling for the ethnic cleansing of Jews, her social media accounts are replete with cries to “#EndEthnicCleansing.” It’s yet another example of how much of anti-Israel activism is not about principled human rights, but about the destruction of the Jewish state and the denial of Jewish self-determination.


An Instagram post from Muna El-Kurd showing the red general prohibition symbol over a visibly Jewish person.
What makes this all the more disturbing is that this is the woman the media has fawned over for the last year. TIME named both her and her twin brother Mohammed among its list of the “100 most influential people” in 2021, claiming they “challenged existing narratives about Palestinian resistance…humanizing the experiences of their neighbors. Charismatic and bold, they became the most recognizable voices of those threatened with losing their homes in Sheikh Jarrah.” In July 2021, The Times published a glowing profile of the two that, as CAMERA-UK wrote, “resembles a Palestinian Solidarity Campaign (PSC) press release.” The Financial Times claimed Muna and her brother’s “calls for justice echo the same values of equality that fuel global campaigns such as Black Lives Matter.”

Apparently, the value of equality includes referring to Jews as “dogs” and calling for them to be ethnically cleansed.

The media cannot claim they could not have known about El-Kurd’s extremism. Social media posts from long before her 2021 rise to fame displayed open antisemitism and frequent praise for infamous terrorists like Dalal al-Mughrabi, who led the Coastal Road Massacre terrorist attack, murdering 38 Israelis, including 13 children.

But this story is not just about media outlets riding catchy, profitable narratives at the expense of actual journalistic investigation. It’s also a story about the radical Jewish left and the role they’ve played in normalizing this extremism.

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Muna El-Kurd: Jews are Zionist Dogs, and ‘Palestine’ Should Be Ethnically Cleansed of Them

The statement also exposes the emptiness of the supposed “principles” of individuals like El-Kurd. While openly calling for the ethnic cleansing of Jews, her

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The Catholic Church’s 1965 publication of Nostra Aetaterepresented an unequivocal statement that the Jewish people should not be held responsible for the death of Jesus. The document also overturned centuries of teachings that insisted God held the Jewish people “in contempt.”

The Dutch lyrics are relatively mild compared to a controversy over a 2013 Romanian Christmas carol.

The carol, which was aired on Romanian national television, featured the lyrics, “A beautiful child was born / His name was Jesus Christ / All the world worships Him / But the kikes / Damn kikes / Holy God would not leave the **** alive / Either in the sky or on the Earth / Only in the chimney as smoke / This is what the **** is good for / To make **** smoke through the chimney on the street.”

The persistence of antisemitic folk songs was a theme in the material of comedian Sacha Baron Cohen’s Borat character. In a scene typical of the character’s skits, Borat convinced townspeople to sing along to a song that implored them to “throw the Jew down the well” so their country “can be free.” Whether or not the people were aware the song was a joke remains to be seen.

While Cohen’s Borat character lampooned people’s willingness to engage in antisemitic stereotypes, European towns such as Ootmarsum continue traditions that promote Jew-hatred. An annual parade in the Belgian city of Aalst, for instance, includes floats displaying bulbous-nosed Jewish puppets standing on money bags, marchers dressed in Klu Klux Klan costumes, and young Europeans donning blackface makeup.

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‘Throw the Jew Down the Well’ Part 2? Easter Carolers Insist on This Antisemitic Song | United with Israel

The song promotes the false accusation that the Jews are responsible for Jesus' death.

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Some tweets from a German "anti-Zionist" rally show that many of the participants have a problem with...Jews.

Here, a reporter from Bilde who was being protected by police from the protesters is jeered as a "fucking Jew."

Journalists were also insulted as "dirty Jews."


Here, someone is called a "Drecksjude" - a Shit Jew. Also "Khaybar, Khaybar, oh Jews, the army of Mohammed will return." And chants in support of Qassam rockets aimed at Jewish civilians.



What lovely people!

Multicultural Germany! The exact opposite of Nazi Germany - except, of course, for how they think about Jews.

Notice also that the anti-Zionists who swear up and down that they abhor antisemitism never say a negative word about things like this.

I'm blocked from most of the JVP idiots, but if you are not, challenge some of them to condemn this hate without adding a "but."

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Scratch an "anti-Zionist," find an antisemite (Germany edition)

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Antisemitic incidents spike by 34%, break US records in 2021 - ADL

The surge of incidents in May 2021 coincided with the military conflict between Israel and Hamas, the ADL found.

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It quotes a Jordanian ministerial statement that "called on the occupation to return the situation in Al-Aqsa Mosque to what it was before the year 2000 and close the Mughrabi Gate through which settlers carry out their daily incursions into the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque.

Meanwhile, the Sheikh of Al Azhar in Egypt rejected out of hand the suggestion that he meet with rabbis.

Egyptian newspaper Al Majd has this headline: "The number of Jews in the world is 15 million evil people: only 7 million of them occupy Palestine and 6 million occupy the “Zionist” United States."




Rai al-Youm has an article that says that an unnamed (they) have been performing espionage and mass murder of civilians from the time of Joshua until today.

Ma'an offhandedly accuses Jews of murdering Jesus.

There is a famous Yiddish story of a poor man who complains to the rabbi that his house is too small, and the rabbi asks him to fill it with farm animals for a while. After the animals are removed the man is happy that he has so much more room. This article, however, twists it into a tale of how Jews manipulate their enemies psychologically without doing anything concrete to help them.

And then there is this article in Al-Omah that is supposedly against normalization with Israel, but the examples of such normalization in the UAE include their hotels providing kosher food for visitors, plans for a Jewish neighborhood and sending Passover greetings. For good measure, it adds "Al-Aqsa Mosque must be liberated from the defilement, terror and arrogance of the Jews."

There's even more! Mohamed Mokhtar Gomaa is the Egyptian minister of religious endowment (waqf). He came under attack on social media, because the ministry of waqf forbade night prayers in mosques this year because of COVID. People were upset and therefore called him the worst insult possible: they claimed he was a Jew. (A person who wanted to defend him considered calling one of his attackers the son of a Jewish mother, but decided that this was too harsh of an insult.)

All of this in only in the past 24 hours!

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Arab antisemitism just keeps on coming, and keeps getting worse

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Pro-Palestinian demonstrators in Berlin displaying the national flags of Algeria and Morocco. Photo:
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Muslim activists in Germany who chanted antisemitic slogans at a pro-Palestinian demonstration in Berlin last Saturday were motivated not by a personal connection to the conflict, but by their exposure to bigoted religious and media messages, a leading Middle Eastern expert on Islamism said on Tuesday.

Ahmad Mansour — an Israeli-Arab psychologist who is based in the German capital — told Berlin’s BZ news outlet that the outbursts of antisemitic invective at pro-Palestinian rallies in the Kreuzberg and Neukölln districts came from participants with “no biographical proximity” to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.

“It’s the methods of upbringing, religious understandings, education and media that work every day to further fuel this hatred,” observed Mansour, who recently led an investigation into allegations of antisemitism at the Arabic-language service of Deutsche Welle, Germany’s taxpayer-funded broadcaster.

In a separate interview with German radio, Mansour remarked that while schools in Germany educated students about the Nazi Holocaust, scant attention is paid to the antisemitism that crystallizes around the hatred of Israel. Given the profusion of antisemitic conspiracy theories, educators had “a lot of catching up to do,” Mansour said.


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Following Antisemitic Incitement at Pro-Palestinian Rally, Berlin Politicians Urge Tougher Police Crackdown - Algemeiner.com

Muslim activists in Germany who chanted antisemitic slogans at a pro-Palestinian demonstration in Berlin last Saturday were motivated not by a personal connection to the conflict, but by their exposure to bigoted religious and media messages, a leading Middle Eastern expert on Islamism said on...

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These Jewish students are absolutely right to declare that references to “Zionist-funded US and Western media,” “the Zionist grip on the media,” and “Ashkenazi Jewish whiteness” cross the line from legitimate criticism of Israel to blatant antisemitic rhetoric.

It is important to acknowledge the uptick in such Israel-related antisemitism.


This spring semester, SJP chapters on multiple campuses are hosting the incendiary Palestinian activist Mohammed el-Kurd, who has said that Israelis have “an unquenchable thirst for Palestinian blood,” describes Zionism as a “genocidal” and “sadistic” “death cult,” and insists that Israelis are akin to Nazis.
Furthermore, this obnoxious trend to marginalize Jews on campus is not confined to SJP and other explicitly anti-Israel groups. At American University, the Muslim Student Association just pulled out of an interfaith Seder/Iftar event due to Hillel’s support for Israel as a Jewish and democratic state.

These actions have consequences — a recent AEN-supported research paper found that colleges and universities with an active SJP chapter suffer 253% more antisemitic bias-reporting incidents than campuses without one.

All of this creates a campus climate where Jewish and Zionist students, such as those who wrote to NYU’s administration, feel increasingly unsafe to publicly express their identity. A just-released survey by the American Jewish Committee (AJC) found that nearly 23% of American Jewish millennials agreed that the statement “anti-Israel climate, on campus or elsewhere, has forced me to hide my Jewish identity” described their own views “very well” or “somewhat well.”
Campus administrators must ensure that their institutions remain places that promote civic discourse and create a supportive environment for all students. This requires that university leaders develop and implement robust action plans, involving educational programming and trainings around Jewish identity, the Jewish experience, and antisemitism. Anti-Israel groups and activists, and the campus community as a whole, need to better understand how targeting “Zionists” isn’t an automatic get out of jail free card for hateful expression. Since Zionism is a central component of Jewish identity for most Jews on campus, antisemitic bigotry can’t be avoided simply by replacing the word “Jew” with the word “Zionist.”

To be sure, criticism of Israeli government policies, along with its state and society, is not necessarily antisemitic, but rhetoric that delegitimizes and demonizes Israel and normalizes violence against Israelis must be called out for what it is: anti-Jewish hate speech that’s antithetical to the values of any academic institution.

Thus, it is encouraging that NYU Law School Dean Trevor Morrison recently sent a statement to students emphasizing that “NYU Law condemns as immoral the intentional killing of civilians. … That includes, but is not limited to the recent attacks in Israel,” and that a broader statement from NYU and NYU Law highlighted that those institutions “vehemently reject and condemn anti-Semitism.”

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Universities Should Exercise Moral Leadership to Address SJP Antisemitism - Algemeiner.com

When does anti-Zionism become antisemitic? Anti-Israel activists often attempt to shield themselves from accusations of bias and bigotry by claiming that they’re merely making a political critique. But for those law school students at New York University who recently used conspiratorial and...

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