Posts Tagged: Anti-Israel Activism

A Message to Incoming Jewish College Students
To incoming first-years: Unlocking our dorm rooms three years ago, we were filled with nervous excitement. We were excited to meet new people and learn their...

Finnish Amnesty International Board Member Says Israel Worse Than Hezbollah
An Amnesty International board member from Finland was criticized on Monday after denouncing Germany’s decision to ban the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah. Syksy Räsänen, a Finnish...

New Book Exposes Depth of Anti-Israel Hate on American Campuses
About six months after Andrew Pessin posted -- on his Facebook profile -- a defense of Israel during its 2014 war against Hamas, the once...

SPME BDS Monitor: School Year Ends With Defeats for Boycott Movement, But There Are Challenges Ahead
The spring semester ended with several BDS resolutions being defeated in student governments, usually after many hours of debate. The ability of defeat BDS resolutions...

Anti-Israel Marchers Join Trump Protests in New York City; Call for ‘Intifada Revolution’
Anti-Israel activists are seeking to co-opt the left-wing protests that have erupted across the US following Donald Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton in last Tuesday’s...

Anti-Israel Activist Rock Star Roger Waters Reportedly Splits From Palestinian Journalist Girlfriend
Prominent anti-Israel activist and Pink Floyd rock star Roger Waters has broken up with his Palestinian girlfriend, Page Six reported on Tuesday. As reported by The Algemeiner in June,...

Campus Antisemitism Spike Sparks Record Attendance at Media Watchdog Conference
JNS.org - More than 80 students from nearly 70 campuses will be in Boston, Ma. August 7-10 as part of a high-level training conference hosted by...

Ignorance: The True Cost of Higher Education
During several sleepless nights, watching loops of 24-hour news broadcasts devoted to the US presidential race, I noticed certain themes that otherwise might have escaped...
Is the UCC Headed for Another Bout of Anti-Israelism?
The United Church of Christ, a liberal Protestant denomination with approximately 900,000 members (less than half of what it was in the mid-1960s and down...

Anti-Israel Activists Force Shutdown of Israeli Arms Factory in the UK
Anti-Israel activists forced the shutdown of an Israeli-owned arms factory in the United Kingdom on Tuesday, claiming the company helped build drones used in Israel's...

To Counter Christian anti-Israelism, It’s Time to go Local
Every year it seems that they put the Christmas decorations into the stores earlier and earlier. When I was a kid, you wouldn't see the...

Antisemitism With a Literary Glow: Alice Walker’s Ugly Caricature of Israeli Jews
"Jesus, a Palestinian - is still being crucified." (Alice Walker's blog, per CAMERA.) "[Israeli] settlers are the [Ku Klux] Klan" (Alice Walker, during interview with Jesse Rosenfeld.) "I...
Anti-Zionist Historian Faces Criticism for Cal State Lectures
Ilan Pappé, an anti-Zionist Israeli historian and professor at the University of Exeter in England, faced criticism recently for his guest lectures at the California...