New York civil liberties groups celebrated Mamdani’s orders as a step to protect the First Amendment right to criticize Israel. Israel didn’t see it that way.
For two decades, some Israeli officials & Israel partisans have worked to embed a new, Israel-focused definition of antisemitism in institutions around the world, from international bodies & national governments to college campuses in heartland America. As a result, advocacy for Palestinian rights is on the way to being curtailed and even criminalized as “hate.”
The attack in Manchester is evidence not of a rising tide of antisemitism but of something else entirely: a growing and dangerous political illiteracy being cultivated in our societies
This week in Washington, D.C., a federal judge made a ruling so shocking, so unprecedented, that it flips the First Amendment on its head. Judge declared that the Israeli flag is not a political symbol at all, but a racial one.
Project Shema, increasingly a presence on university campuses, uses progressive language while foregrounding the “harm” of anti-Zionism.
The Jewish Community Relations Council attacked a talk I gave to the U.S.’s largest children’s mental health system as “antisemitic” because I discussed Palestinian trauma. My employer bowed to the pressure. JCRCs all over the US work to stop Americans from learning the facts.
University announces the move as it tries to restore $400 million in funds frozen over its alleged failure to protect Jewish students
“Really, it’s an across-the-board attempt to silence and take away the First Amendment right of people simply because they don’t agree with them. It’s a very dangerous precedent.” Abed Ayoub, executive director of American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee
Supporters of Israel have resurrected McCarthy’s tactics, falsely labeling those who call for peace in Palestine or an end to U.S. military aid to Israel ‘antisemites’ – which does not make Jews safer.
The pro-Israeli Anti-Defamation League (ADL) surveyed the activists for their opposition to a program in which US police received training from Israeli military and police officials.