April 14, 2013 Manitoba Bars Anti-Israel Group for Human Rights Violations In a major decision of international signfiicance, the University of Manitoba’s student union has stripped the Students Against Israeli Apartheid (SAIA) of official recognition. The Manitoba student’s union is the first such group to bar this anti-Israel campus group based on the anti-Semitic harassment and discrimination that take place each year during Israel Apartheid Week. […] Anti-Semitism Blog Anti-Zionism
April 11, 2013 BDS Fail at University of California at Santa Barbara After an epic battle, pro-Israel students have just scored an upset victory against the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, defeating a hard-fought anti-Israel divestment resolution at the University of California at Santa Barbara. These battles are now much closer than they were just a few years ago, as the BDS movement had recently scored victories […] Blog Anti-Zionism
April 10, 2013 Petition Against Anti-Israel Bullying and Bigotry on Campus A group called “Students Against Bigotry” is circulating this petition against “anti-Israel bullying and bigotry on campus.” The campaign for a boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel often degenerates into hatred and smears. We oppose harassment, bigotry and bullying against any group. The petition may be found here, and its text is shown below. STUDENTS […] Blog Anti-Zionism Anti-Semitism
April 8, 2013 Nora Gold Addresses Anti-Semitism for ISGAP at McGill University Author Nora Gold will speak tomorrow at McGill University on “‘I Don’t Know Why They Hate Us – I Don’t Think We Did Anything Bad To Hurt Them’: Jewish Girls (Aged 10-12) Reflect on Their Experiences of Antisemitism.” The talk is part of the the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy’s lecture […] Blog Anti-Semitism
April 7, 2013 Scholars for Peace in the Middle East Conduct Anti-BDS Petition Drive Scholars for Peace in the Middle East SPME is circulating a faculty Petition to Condemn Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Against Israel. The timing is important, as the BDS movement has recently scored a rare string of victories in North America. Student governments have lately passed anti-Israel BDS resolutions at the University of California campuses at […] Blog Anti-Zionism Anti-Semitism
April 7, 2013 Global Anti-Semitism Surged 30 Percent in 2012 Anti-Semitism researchers at Tel Aviv University have announced that anti-Semitic incidents surged by 30 percent last year. Tel Aviv’s Kantor Center, headed by LDB Advisor Dina Porat, issues the authoritative annual report on global anti-Semitism. This year’s report highlights a significant global surge, including last year’s Toulouse school massacre, and expresses concern about anti-Semitism in extreme right-wing political parties […] Blog Anti-Semitism
April 7, 2013 The Algemeiner Compiles List of 100 Most Influential Living Jews Who are the 100 most influential living Jews? Do you have some ideas? Here is your opportunity to share them in an influential forum. The Algemeiner (which is sometimes called the “Jewish Huffington Post“) wants your help compiling its own new list. Until now, the Jewish Daily Forward has been the most widely discussed list-maker in this […] Blog
April 7, 2013 Presidents, Prejudice, and Public Policy Like much else about the 1960s, the mantra that “all politics is personal” was rather naïve compared to earlier, more pointed formulations. According to Harold D. Lasswell, who authored Psychopathology and Politics (1930) during the first wave of Freudian debunking, all politics is the displacement of private motives unto public issues, rationalized in terms of […] Blog Anti-Semitism
April 6, 2013 Irish Teachers’ Union Votes to Bar Israeli Scholars The Teachers’ Union of Ireland, which represents Irish secondary and post-secondary school teachers and lecturers, has voted at its annual meeting to boycott all academic collaboration with Israel, as the Jewish Chronicle (U.K.) reports. The Union’s new resolution steps up its campaign for boycott, divestment and sanctions against what it calls “the apartheid state of […] Blog Anti-Zionism
April 6, 2013 Historian Catherine Chatterley to Address Struggles Over Holocaust Memory Historian Catherine Chatterley, a member of the Louis D. Brandeis Center’s Academic Advisory Board, will deliver a lecture on April 11 on “Canada’s Struggle with Holocaust Memorialization: The War Museum Controversy, Ethnic Identity Politics, & the Canadian Museum for Human Rights” at the Canadian Institute for Jewish Research in Montreal. It is sadly true that the preservation […] Blog Anti-Semitism