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Weekly roundup of world briefs   UPenn refuses to reschedule commencement ceremony on Shavuot (JNS) — The University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia said it will not move the date of its commencement ceremony, which is set to take place during the Jewish holiday of Shavuot, despite a petition to reschedule the event to accommodate those who celebrate the Jewish holiday. According to the university’s student-run publication, The Daily Pennsylvanian, nearly 40 seniors who identify as Orth...

Get email notification for articles from Eva Illouz Follow Apr. 15, 2021 3:48 PM How do you win against your opponent in the ideological arena? Simple: take a reviled symbol and associate it with him. For example, characterize the left as a bunch of traitors or losers, and remind the public of Chamberlain. Politics is replete with distorted perceptions, symbols and images, and manipulating these images is a decisive part of ideological warfare. Mixing and confusing symbols has long been a tact...

From the blog of Mose Apelblat at The Times of Israel

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Letters Writing in Weekly Worker, Ammar Kazmi asks me to “promptly explain” and “correct” what I wrote in my article, ‘Defend David Miller’, about the professor’s “alignment with pro-Shia groups” (Letters, March 18). I am very happy to respond - not to correct or retract, but to further emphasise the main points. The thrust of the article was to defend David Miller, his rights to free expression and broader academic freedom in the face of a concerted assault. The defence of f...

Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, Jeffrey Herf In 1975 United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution declaring the Zionism was a form of racism. Though subsequently revoked, the accusation became a standard theme in intern...

As the daughter of an Ashkenazi mother and Mizrahi father, I discovered that a Mizrahi-Ashkenazi rift existed when my mother... In other words, Jews are losing further control of the public narrative about them. This point is underscored by the incursion of antisemitic violence into racial justice protests in the US and Europe. The death of George Floyd was followed by attacks on synagogues and Jewish-owned businesses in a number of cities, most recently three Israeli restaurants in Portland, O...

Expression of anti-Semitism must be made taboo Definitions of racism against Jews get lost in semantics. We need a policy of zero tolerance about 2 hours ago   As the Jerusalem Declaration on Anti-Semitism is published by an international group of 200 scholars, does a new set of written guidelines help or hinder the fight against anti-Semitism? Is anti-Semitism different from other forms of racism and what measures might be taken to stem an alarming rise in attacks over the last six years? Th...

Get email notification for articles from David Schraub Follow Apr. 7, 2021 10:11 AM The past few years have seen a growing tempest swirl around the so-called International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, or IHRA, definition of antisemitism. The IHRA definition, which had been adopted by dozens of countries and countless universities, associations, labor unions and NGOs, was considered controversial in some quarters for allegedly chilling criticism of Israel by labeling it "antisemitism." Whi...

Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, (iStock) Since 2005, government and non-profit professionals tasked with combating anti-Semitism have championed the widespread recognition of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (I...