Posts Tagged: Natan Sharansky
Human Rights Icon Natan Sharansky Calls Out Progressives Who View Jews as ‘Oppressors’
Renowned human rights activist Natan Sharansky called out on Wednesday progressives who viewed Jews as “oppressors,” saying such an outlook contradicted the concept of individual...
How Chess Helped Natan Sharansky Outlast the Soviet Union and Foster Jewish Unity
Never Alone: Prison, Politics, and My People by Gil Troy and Natan Sharansky (Hachette, 2020). In 1977, Natan Sharansky, a leading activist in the democratic dissident...
The Life and Legacy of Natan Sharansky
JNS.org - In the Soviet Union of the 1970s, it wasn’t hard to meet Russians who knew the Communist system was incorrigibly corrupt, dysfunctional and...
New Sharansky Book Discloses Strains Between Netanyahu, US Jews
“Liberal American Jews really don’t like Israel,” a frustrated Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told then-Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky in 2015, according to an account...
Jewish Human Rights Icon Natan Sharansky Urges Unity in Fight Against Antisemitism
Former Soviet refusenik Natan Sharansky called for unity in the fight against antisemitism during an online forum on Monday. In a conversation hosted by the American...
Head of British Foreign Office’s Coronavirus Operations Condemns ‘Sad, Hateful’ Pandemic-Related Antisemitism
The head of the British Foreign Office’s coronavirus operations denounced antisemitism connected to the pandemic on Sunday. “So much of this corona-related #antisemitism now infesting our...
BBC Reporter, Long Accused of Anti-Israel Bias, Slammed Over Holocaust Commemoration Report
Outrage erupted on Thursday after a BBC report on the Holocaust commemoration events currently underway in Israel used the opportunity to slam the Jewish state. The...
Israel’s Role in the Struggle Against Antisemitism
JNS.org - As leaders from more than 40 countries gather in Jerusalem on Thursday for the Fifth World Holocaust Forum, marking the 75th anniversary of...
View From New York Antisemitism Rally: ‘No Fear’ Theme Resonates, From Soviet Era To US Today
Journalists usually report on marches and rallies rather than participate in them. I made a rare exception to that rule for last Sunday’s “No Hate,...
Sharansky Warns Against Post-Pittsburgh Aliyah Push
Israeli politicians tempted to try to capitalize on the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre by urging American Jews to immigrate to the security of Israel should hold...
Ahead of Tisha B’Av, Israeli President Issues Call for Jewish Unity
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin issued a call for Jewish unity on Monday at a pre-Tisha B’Av Torah study session he hosted at his residence in...
Fourteen Flaws in Tom Friedman’s ‘Israel to American Jews’ New York Times Column
The New York Times devotes three columns on the top half of its op-ed page to an article by Thomas Friedman that appears under the...
Plight of Syrians Leads to Cancellation of ‘Jewish Nobel’ Ceremony in Jerusalem
The Israel-based Genesis Foundation has announced the cancellation of a planned ceremony in Jerusalem at which influential British-Indian contemporary artist Anish Kapoor was to receive its...
New Israeli Initiative to Equip Jewish High School Students With Tools to Counter Campus Anti-Zionism Lauded by Advocacy Groups
A new Israeli initiative to prepare high school students to deal with and confront anti-Zionist activity that they are liable to encounter when they get to college was...
