Who will defend Jewish students against anti-Semites?
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Who will defend Jewish students against anti-Semites?
If the Biden administration reverses Trump’s policy penalizing Jew-hatred on college campuses, it may be open season on pro-Israel kids for BDS advocates.
(January 25, 2021 / JNS) Following the U.S. Capitol riot, there has been a renewed emphasis on the threat from white-supremacist hate groups from the Biden administration, much of the media as well as the organized Jewish community. The anti-Semitic imagery seen at the rally organized by former President Donald Trump as well as in the mob storming Congress was frightening. No one should discount the fact that although their numbers are few, such violent right-wing extremists are dangerous. If there was any complacency about such threats, the deadly attacks on synagogues in Pittsburgh and Poway, Calif., in 2018 and 2019 should have dispelled that notion. Jewish institutions should remain on alert, as they
"Skeptics may object that too many of the measures are non-binding and hence perhaps difficult to enforce, but their ramifications will indeed be felt," writes WJC Executive Vice President Maram Stern in Die Welt.
Why are Jews trying to undermine the fight against Jew-hatred?
December 18, 2020
(JNS) A group of 122 Palestinian academics, journalists, writers and filmmakers signed a letter last month taking issue with the widespread adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Association definition of anti-Semitism. Their statement has gotten a lot of attention and been rightly criticized as both disingenuous and illegitimate since it is absurd for a group that is the object of prejudice, as is the case with the Jews, to be denied the right to define the hatred that is directed at them.
But as much as the Palestinian protest against the IHRA declaration is deserving of.
On a recent trip to Israel, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that the U.S. now officially considers the BDS movement to boycott Israel to be antisemitic. Soon after, news broke that Pompeo also plans to label Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Oxfam as antisemitic for their anti-Israel activism. In so doing, Pompeo was relying on the controversial International Holocaust Remembrance Association’s working definition of antisemitism, which is famously murky when it comes to distinguishing between anti-Zionism and antisemitism.
The definition itself is rather ambiguous: “Antisemitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews.” But even more controversial are the “contemporary examples of antisemitism,” some of which are about Israel. For example, it lists “applying double standards by requiring of [Israel] a behavior not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation” and “claiming that the existence of a State
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