Melissa Landa
ARTICLES BY: Melissa Landa
Lessons From the ‘No FEAR’ Rally
It has been 11 days since the “NO FEAR Rally in Solidarity with the Jewish People” took place in front of the United States Capitol,...
Why California’s Model Curriculum Fails Jews, and Jewish Students
California’s Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum (ESMC) is currently on its fourth draft, partially a result of its original antisemitic references, which were removed after Jewish...
After Antisemitic Attacks, a Call for Moral Clarity on the Left
On Sunday, tens of thousands of people gathered in New York City to march across the Brooklyn Bridge and send a unified message against antisemitism....
Jewish Students Have Endured Enough
The Executive Order that President Donald Trump signed on December 11 provides Jewish students the same protections granted to other minority groups under Title VI...
At Oberlin and Elsewhere, Anti-Zionism Is Not a Valid Viewpoint
Discrimination and harassment of Jews by pro-BDS groups like Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace is rampant on many campuses. While...
Antisemitism Is Real — We Must Fight It Loud and Proud
Jews are under assault in the United States. White nationalists are marking the landscape with a trail of blood and swastikas, desecrating Jewish tombstones, and...
In Rochester and Elsewhere, Jewish Organizations Must Forcefully Fight Anti-Zionists
The “Witness Palestine Film Festival” in Rochester, New York, is now celebrating its eighth year. In past years, the event lasted for one week and...
The United Nations Delegitimizes BDS
The United Nations' Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief, Ahmed Shaheed, just released a report titled, “Combatting Antisemitism to Eliminate Discrimination and Intolerance...
We Must Fight BDS Lies and Manipulation on Campus
Over the last few years, thousands of Americans Jewish adolescents who were raised in Zionist households have been taught that Israel is unworthy of their...
Why Jews Should Experience the Palestinian Perspective
For 30 years, I have been an anti-bias educator, and for five years, I have been an anti-BDS activist. Yet only recently have I discovered...
Israel Is Not an ‘Apartheid’ State — Here’s the Proof
Since the claim that Israel is an apartheid state was broadcast in 2001 in Durban, South Africa -- the land where I was born and...
Taxpayer-Funded Israel Hate in Takoma Park, Maryland
On Tuesday, July 23, the municipality of Takoma Park, Maryland, spent taxpayer dollars to screen a vicious and dishonest film about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The...
Standing Up to Antisemitism in Queens, and Calling on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to Do the Same
Raja Abdulhaq and Nerdeen Kiswani were scheduled to speak at the Church of the Redeemer in Astoria, Queens on the evening of May 14. Caleb...
An Episcopal Church in New York Is About to Host Two Virulently Anti-Israel Speakers
On Tuesday May 14, the Redeemer Episcopal Church in Astoria, Queens is scheduled to hold an event called “Palestinian Expulsion and Resistance: The Nakba, BDS,...
