Thank you so much, appreciate that. Thank you for all being here for this important discussion today. I wish the subject didnt need to be discussed at all. Discrimination against the one on the basis of their faith or ethnicity is always wrong. That we have to repeat that refrain today is troubling. Its even more troubling that too many young people perpetrate that kind of discrimination. This administration is committed to stopping it. We stand firmly against the alarming rise of antisemitism, and we acknowledge this reality prematurely is israels capital. [applause] this reality. Jerusalem is israels capital. Theident trump moved capital. Peace in the middle east begins by recognizing israels right to exist. Israel is a light to the region, but we all know it is surrounded by jihadists who embrace people and deny israels existence. And violently work to wipe it off the map. I think of my own visits to the holy land. They were indelible experiences that have shaped me in many ways. Visiting my great uncle and aunt in the netherlands and seeing where they had dozens of fleeing jews behind flour sacks in their bakery during the Second World War also impacted me deeply. The atrocities of the holocaust must never again occur. Never again. [applause] this administration is committed to protecting israel, our strong ally in the middle east only democracy. Israel has a committed friend in the white house and israel has friends at the u. S. Department of education. We are so pleased to have ken marcus as her assistant andetary for civil rights Lee Rubenstein as our acting general counsel. Many of you know both men and their longtime work against discrimination and antisemitism. One of the most pernicious and prevalent examples of antisemitism on campus is the campaign known as bdf. These campus bullies claimed they stand for human rights, but we all know it stands for antisemitism. We recently made clear at Williams College that these kinds of efforts are unacceptable. Students there tried to register a proisrael group, but after much antisemitic uproar, the College Council denied the group recognition. We negotiated a resolution agreement with the college that affords the proisrael Student Group the same rights and privileges as any other Student Group. , recentlynother issue directed an investigation of a conference there that may have been funded by taxpayers. We are looking at whether the conference violated grant terms and perpetuated antisemitism. These are just two examples of what the department of what the department of education is doing to protect students from discrimination. Discrimination based on actual or perceived shared ancestry or ethnic characteristics. We are intent on ensuring protection for students across the country. We are committed to our partnership with attorney general barr and the department of justice on this important issue. I know this discussion will highlight other examples and offer insights on how to continue combating antisemitism on americas campuses. Personal, but it doesnt have to be hidden under a bushel basket, to recall scripture. Americans have fought and died for the right to live their faith in all aspects of their life. This administration is, and always will be, committed to ensuring all believers can live and practice their faith without fear. Thank you, i know this conversation will be useful and important. Thank you very much. [applause] quick scan you all hear me . Thank you for that kind introduction. Im pleased to be moderating this panel on antisemitism on campus. , yous been widely reported cant turn on the news without seeing an article about a Student Group not being recognized or a student not getting a recommendation to study abroad in israel. Clear least i think it is that jewish students feel under threat on campus in a way that they have not in the recent past. Our panel today will discuss the state of play. Are we seeing an increase on campus or just a rise of reporting . What form is the new antisemitism taking . What can and should be done in response . Thats a lot of ground to cover in 90 minutes. I would like to introduce our distinguished panelists. Writes a daily column on domestic politics, israel, and jewish affairs. He is a regular contributing columnist to several publications. For many years jonathan wrote a column in the jerusalem post. He is a graduate of columbia university. Lewinfounder of lewin and , a washington, dc litigation law firm. In 2014, she argued before the u. S. Supreme court a case involving whether an american citizen born in jerusalem may list israel as a place of birth on his or her passport. She is a graduate of nyu loss girl law school. s clinicalobs professor of law and director of a law clinic at cornell. He is currently a contributor to the times of israel where he blogs about topics and or cuts. He spent 23 years in private practice in providence, rhode island. Is a graduate of Harvard Law School and hamilton college. Charles asher smalls founding director and president of the institute for the study of global antisemitism and policy. A new yorkbased nonprofit committed to fighting antisemitism. Scholar atteemed Saint Anthonys college and oxford university. His research focuses on contemporary antisemitism. Hissed her small earned masters degree from University College london and his bachelors from mikael university. Well start by asking each panelist to speak for about eight minutes on a topic related to the larger theme. Mr. Tobin, would you like to begin . Thank you. Its an honor to be here to discuss how to best combat antisemitism and it is encouraging that the department of justice has chosen to highlight the issue in this manner, and we think them for that. Its a matter of no small irony that College Campuses are among the places in this country where antisemitic symptom sentiment has become commonplace. Jews feel threatened by culture of intolerance. That institutions that are supposed to be strongholds of progressive values have become the beachhead on this continent for the spread of what was called a rising tide of antisemitism that has been sweeping across the globe. It is shocking. For anyone who has paid attention to the academic world in the last generation, it is hardly a surprise. The reason for this boils down to one key fact. The growing popularity of antizionism and the way that ideology has been used to legitimize antisemitism and to create a hostile atmosphere in Academic Circles and on some campuses where jews feel not only marginalize but intimidated and threatened. Support for the movement to has not only gained a foothold in academia but in Many University partners, opposition to its discriminatory goal and tactics marks both dissident academics and students as pariahs to be shunned, shouted down, or worse. A situation that is particularly threatening to jews. In this generation, antisemitism has taken on a new form in which israel becomes the substitute for antijewish stereotypes that have been handed down through the ages. In discussing this problem, it is vital that we clarify some popular misconceptions. What is antizionism, and is it, as many of its list on his advocates claim, separate and distinct from hatred of jews . Antizionism is opposition to a jewish state and is focused on activism and advocacy in the United States and terrorism in the middle east for the elimination of the state of israel. It means singling singling out the one jewish state on the planet and making it the only entity of a newly 200 represented in the United Nations that is the focus of an International Movement to erase it from the map, and whose birth and a postwar world in which various conflicts gave rise to scores of new nations is considered an original sin which must be reversed. Just as important is to understand that contrary to the rationalizations put forward five bds advocates, antizionism is not criticism of israel or of its current government and its policies. More than 7 million israelis wake up every morning and proceed to criticize their government, just as more than 300 million americans wake up every day and do the same about some aspect of their state, local, and federal government. Thats life in a democracy. Were criticism of israel is not is itsion to the nor antisemitic. No responsible person would claim that it is. But when one seeks to deny the jews the right to estate in their ancient homeland, no matter where its borders might be drawn, to deny legitimacy to their National Movement in a way that no other nationalism is delegitimized, to deny them the right not merely to sovereignty, but the right to live in peace and the right of selfdefense, that is not your criticism, it is prejudice. That must be the starting point for any discussion of antizionism. What antizionist seat to do is something that is unique to one people and one country. No other people on the planet are treated in this manner or singled out the way antizionist seek to treat the one jewish state. It is true that not every ethnic group has achieved sovereign status in their homeland throughout the world, but there is no other example of an International Movement that is dedicated to eradicating an existing sovereign state, predicated on the notion that its population not only has no right to exert power but no right to live in it, as is the case for jews in israel. To oppose antizionism and to correctly grant it as a form of antijewish prejudice is not necessary to espouse a particular point of view about the middle east Peace Process. Jews andict between arabs which has been going on for more than a century is complex. It is hardly surprising that those who criticize israel stand on the Peace Process ignore the fact that israel has sought several times to offer statehood to the to the palestinians in exchange for peace and into the conflict, and that the palestinians rejected it each time. But those who claim that justice is only to be obtained by denying to the jews the right to statehood over any part of their country, tel aviv, haifa, not just roussell and the west bank, over which these two peoples have contended, when they so readily support many other ethnic, national, and religious groups, of practicing a unique kind of bias. Seen in this light, antizionism and its bds component are not the critique of any israeli policy or politician. Purpose shifting israels borders. His purpose is, and media advocates make abundantly clear in their literature and websites, to deny the jews right , that no one thinks of denying to others. A form oft is discrimination and the term is antisemitism. While it is possible to make academic critiques of israels right to exist that can take on an air of legitimate debate, in practice, on many College Campuses as well as elsewhere, advocacy for antizionism illustrates that it is indistinguishable from traditional forms of antisemitism. The arguments from antizionist and the bds movement raise wish to erase thousands of years of jewish history and faith. They single out israeli actions and judge them not merely by double standards applied to no other democracy, let alone any other middle east country, but seek to maliciously compare it to nazi germany. They treat the one nation that is linked to judaism is legitimate as illegitimate, while ignoring the connections between fades and other dozens of sovereign nations. The arguments against israel and supporters in the United States are also straight out of the includingic playbook, false accusations of dual loyalty in committing crimes. They are rooted in a kind of demonization of jews that is all of familiar for students israel. The members of congress have employed these themes testifies both to the growth of this movement and the unwholesome manner in which it has sought to insinuate its ideas into the national conversation. We dont need to look at their literature to know that antizionism and the bds movement are steeped in it. Wherever they raised their banners, College Campuses or anywhere else, antisemitic acts whether intimidation or even violence always follow. In hijacking of the ideas which the struggles of various minorities are seen as linked enable some academics and journalists to portray the war against the jewish state is somehow analogous to the struggle for civil rights in this country. But this false analogy quit seeks to employ the language of human rights in order to legitimize antizionist rhetoric is rooted in a falsehood. It is those who wish to discriminate against the one jewish state and its people who are spreading hate, not those who seek to defend zionism, which is the National Liberation movement of the jewish people. Those who spread this form antisemitic hate claim they are promoting peace, but their position is antithetical to the cause of peace. It seeks an outcome that can only be achieved by a genocidal war against the people of israel who will not submit to the ethnic cleansing of their country. That is true no matter who is spreading this form of hate, whether nonjews are in the case of a small local leftist minority, jews. Seen clearly, there is no doubt that those who discourse about israel is anchored in a movement to destroy it and to demonize its people and its diaspora jewish supporters are not merely criticizing its government are speaking out in favor of peace or human rights, but engaging in a form of hate that is we must conclude that it must be the policy of the United States and of decent people everywhere to oppose antisemitic agitation and violence whether it labels itself antizionist or some other set of ideas that masquerades as progressive but is actually practicing one of the oldest forms of hatred. Merelyonism is not antisemitism operating under new false front. Those who deny this are spreading a big lie. It is imperative that we not only used his summit as a springboard for action against eight noxious form of hatred and its troubling reappearance within the lifespan of survivors of the holocaust, but also to deny its apparent cloak of legitimacy with which they seek to clothe himself. That is true on College Campuses or anywhere else, but it is especially important that we not let those who seek to educate or those who go to college the right to do so without being demonized or shined. Thank you. Nned. Shu thank you. [applause] good morning. Thank you very much for inviting me to participate in this summit. It is a true honor to be included on this illustrious panel. Most people today are able to recognize traditional or classical antisemitism. The antisemitism that we associate with the swastika or with the nazis. It is more difficult, however, for many to identify antisemitism, the type that jonathan has described. The antisemitism that denies the right of jewish selfdetermination. I would like to focus a little bit more on that form of antisemitism. Its not uncommon today to hear people say, im not antijewish, im just antizionist. But is that really possible . Jews possible to support but oppose zionists . The answer is no. Why . Because zionism is an integral part of jewish identity. Zionism, the yearning and desire of jews to exercise their right to selfdetermination and to reestablish a jewish homeland in the land of israel is an inherent, ancestral, and ethnic jewish characteristic. Zionism is a Political Movement may have originated in the 19th century, but this yearning for zion, the desire for jews to return to their and sister homeland, that is thousands of years old. As old as abraham in the bible. To be a zionist means to support this right of jewish selfdetermination in the ancestral homeland of the jews. If i celebrate the fact that jews have returned once again to the land of israel, if i celebrate that the jewish state of israel exists, then i am a zionist. Those who oppose zionism deny jews this right. The father of the late journalist daniel pearl has coined the term for this. Zionaphobia, and irrational hatred of a homeland for the jewish people. The International Holocaust definition alliance is denying the jewish people their right to selfdetermination by declaiming claiming it is a racist endeavor. The definition recognizes that is defect oh antisemitism. My maternal grandmother was a. Ix generation jerusalemite her ancestors came to live in jerusalem in the early 1800s out of a deep sense that as jews, that was their home. Zion is theg for glue that has kept jews together for millennia. For centuries, jews have not only place faith in jerusalem, but they have prayed to return to jerusalem. The alliance next year in jerusalem is hard every year at the passover seder and at the conclusion of yom kippur, day of atonement. Do you know that over half of the 613 commandments in the pentateuch relate to the land of israel and can only be fulfilled in the land of israel . The jewish connection to the land is so strong that for thousands of years, wherever jews have lived, they have prayed for rain in the land of israel, not where they reside. But zionism, this essential component of jewish identity, is now under attack. Those who deny jews the right to selfdetermination, who say jews do not have a right to a jewish state in any borders in the land of israel, their criticism of israel is antisemitic, even if it is cloaked in human rights terminology. Because if you do not believe the jewish state of israel has a right to exist, then your criticism of israel is not intended to reform the policies of the government of israel. It is intended to destroy the jewish state. To accurately identify antisemitism masquerading as antizionism, we must learn to distinguish between the tonphobes, those who seek destroy the jewish state on the one hand, and those who genuinely seek coexistence between jew and arab on the other. Groups like students for justice sportsstine and jewish for pete, those for peace. Are not interested in dialogue or compromise. The goal is elimination. Make no mistake about it, what is happening today on campuses and beyond is part of an organized, wellfunded strategy to marginalize proisrael zionists and deny them a place in society. And students for justice in palestine, an organization supported by american muslims in palestine, held it no national conference,