I appreciate that. Thank you for all being here for this important discussion today. I wish this subject did not need to be discussed at all. Discrimination against anyone on the basis of their faith or ethnicity is always wrong. That we have to repeat that briefing today is troubling. It is even more troubling that too many young people perpetrate that kind of discrimination. This a ministration is committed to stopping it. We stand firmly against the alarming rise of antisemitism, and we acknowledge this reality. Jerusalem is israels world capital. [ applause ] when President Trump moved the u. S. Embassy to jerusalem, it was a historic tap step toward peace in the region. And 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 evil and who deny israels existence, and violently work to wipe it off the map. I think of my visits to the holy land. A indelible experiences that have shaped me in many ways. In visiting my great uncle and aunt in the netherlands, and seeing where they hid dozens of fleeing behind the sacks in their bakery during the second world war, it also impacted me deeply. The atrocities of the holocaust must ever 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. Israel has friends at the u. S. Department of education. We are so pleased to have can marcus as our assistant secretary for civil rights and read rubenstein [ applause ] and rage room assign as our acting general counsel. Many of you know both men and their longtime work against discrimination and anti semitism. One of the most pernicious and prevalent examples of anti semitism on campus is the campaign known as bds. These campus bullies claim they stand for human rights. , we all know bds stands for anti semitism. We recently made clear at Williams College that these kinds of efforts are unacceptable. Students there are trying to register a pro israel group. After much antisemitic uproar, the College Council denied the group recognition. We negotiated a resolution agreement with the college that affords the pro Israel Student Group the same rights and privileges as any other Student Group. Theres another issue, with duke and unc. I recently directed an investigation of a conference. The 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 education is doing to protect students from discrimination, discrimination based on actual or perceived shared ancestry or at the characteristics. We are intent on ensuring protection for students across the country. We are committed to our ownership with attorney general barr and the department of justice on this important issue. I know this discussion will highlight other examples and offer insight on how to continue combating anti semitism on americas campuses. Faith is personal, but it does not 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 ] can you all hear me . s think you for that kind introduction, john. I am honored to be part of the summit today. In particular, am pleased to be moderating this panel on anti semitism on campus. It has been widely reported. You cannot look at the news without seeing an article about a Student Group not being recognized or a student not being given a recommendation to study abroad in israel. Incidents of antisemitism on campus are on the rise. At the very least, i think it is fairly clear from the press, that jewish students feel under threat on campus in a way they have not in the recent past. Our panel today will discuss the state of play. We seeing an increase in anti semitic sentiment on campus or bryson reporting . s what forum does antisemitism take . Looking at what is behind the increase in antisemitism and what can and should be done in response. That is a lot of ground to cover in 90 minutes. Without further ado i will introduce our panels. Jonathan tobin is editorin chief of jewish news syndicate, where he writes a daily, domestic politics, israel and jewish affairs. Is also a regular contributing columnist on national review, then your post, the federalist, among many other national publications. For many years, jonathan wrote a column entitled views from america. Mr. Tobin is a graduate of columbia university. Alisa lewin is with you washington Litigation Law Firm under her name. She argued before the u. S. Supreme court. It was a case involving an american citizen born in jerusalem seeking to list israel as a nation of origin on his passport. She was also president of the and i center for human rights and law. It is a Nonpartisan Group seeking to advance civil rights for jewish people. Ms. Lewin is a graduate of Nyu Law School and princeton university. William jacobson is clinical professor of law and director of the Securities Law clinic at cornell law school. Is also currently a contributor to the times of israel, where he blogs on topics related to bdsm boycotts of israel in Higher Education. Before joining the faculty at cornell, he spent 23 years in private practice in providence. He litigated business to its in the securities industry. He graduated from Harvard Law School and hamilton college. Charles asher small is founding director and president of the institute for the study of global antisemitism and policy. It is a new York Nonprofit funding antisemitism studying antisemitism. He served on the faculty of tel aviv university. He is at Saint Anthonys college and oxford university. s research focuses on contemporary antisemitism including delay legitimization of israel. Charles small earned his masters degree from mcgill university. We will ask each panelist to speak for 8 minutes on a topic related to the large name. After opening statements, there will be questions to the panel is to get them in dialogue with one another and asked him to comment on Current Events. Mr. Tobin, would you please began . Thank you. It is an honor to be here to discuss how best we can combat antisemitism. It is very encouraging that the department of justice has chosen to highlight this issue in this manner. We thank you for that. It is of course a matter of no small irony that College Campuses are among the places in this country where anti semitic sentiment has become commonplace. Jewish people feel threatened by a culture of intolerance. Institutions that are supposed to be strongholds of independent inquiry and progressive values have become the beachheads on this continent for the spread of what the state department calls a rising tide of antisemitism that has been sweeping across the globe. It is shocking. For anyone who is paying attention to the academic world and the last generation, it is hardly a surprise. The reason for this boils down to one key fact. The growing popularity of anti zionism 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 field not only marginalized but also intimidated and threatened. Support for the movement to boycott the best in section israel, bds, it has not only gained a foothold in academia, but in Many University departments, opposition to its discriminatory goal and tactics mark both dissident academics and students as pariahs to be shunned, shut it down, or worse. s situation that is particularly threatening to jews. In this generation, anti semitism has taken on a new form in which israel has become the substitute for anti semitic, antijewish stereotypes that have been handed down through the ages. In discussing this problem, it is vital that we clarify some ocular misconceptions. What is antizionism . Is it, as many of the less on his advocates, separate and distinct from hatred of jews . Antizionism is a position is opposition to a jewish state. It focuses 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 out the single jewish state on the planet for extinction and making it the only existing National Political entity of the nearly 200 representatives in the United Nations that is the focus of an International Movement to erase it from the map. In a postwar world, with various conflicts giving rise to scores of new nations, it is considered an original sin that must be reversed. Just as important, it is to understand the contrary rationalizations put forward by bds advocates and other opponents of israel. Antizionism is not criticism of israel or of the current government and policy. 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. That is life in a democracy. Mere criticism of israel is not opposition to the existence of israel. Nor is it antisemitic. No responsible person would claim that it is. When one seeks to deny the jews the right to a state in their ancient homeland, no matter where the borders might be, to deny the legitimacy to their national movement, and in a way that no other nationalism is delegitimized, to deny them the right not merely to sovereignty, but to the right to live in peace there and the right of selfdefense, that is not mere criticism. It is prejudice. That must be the starting point for any discussion of anti zionism. When antizionists what they seek 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 for opprobrium in the manner that antizionists speak about and seek to treat the one jewish state. It is true, that not every ethnic at the 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, dedicated on the notion that is population not only has no right to exert power over its people, but no light to live in the territory. That is the case for jews in israel. To oppose antizionism and to correctly brand it as a form of antijewish prejudice is not necessarily to espouse a particular point of view about the middle east peace process. The conflict between jews and palestinian arabs, which has gone on for more than a century, is complex. It is hardly surprising that those who criticize israels stance on the process ignore the fact that israel has sought several times to offer statehood to the palestinians and a change for peace and and and to the conflict. The palestinians rejected it each time. 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, and not just jerusalem in the west bank, over which these two peoples have contended, when they so readily support many other Ethnic National and religious groups, practicing a unique kind of light. Seen in this light, anti zionism and is bds component are not a critique of any israeli policy or politician. Nor is its purpose shifting israels border. Its purpose is as bds advocates, as they make abundantly clear in their literature and website, to deny the jews rights, that no one thinks of denying to others. And the term of art as such, it is a form of discrimination. The term of art for discrimination against jews is antisemitism. While it is possible to make academic critics 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 anti semitism. The arguments from anti zionists and their bds movement raise not just to erase 71 years of israeli nationhood but to erase thousands of years of jewish history and faith. They single out israeli actions and judge them not merely by double standards apply to know whether democracy, let alone any other middle east country. Asic to maliciously compare it to nazi germany. They treat the one nation that is linked to judaism as a legitimate while ignoring as illegitimate while ignoring the connections between faith and dozens of other sovereign nations. The arguments against israel and particularly his supporters in the United States are also straight out of the anti semitic playbook, including themes about jews combining power and congressional support and false accusations of dual loyalty and committing loathsome crimes. They are rooted in a kind of demonization of jews that is all too familiar for students of history. That members of congress as well as academics and activists have employed these themes, testifies to both the growth of this movement, and the unwholesome manner in which it has sought to insinuate its ideas into the national conversation. Moreover, we dont need to look at their literature of the bds movement to know that anti zionists in the bds movement rct and hate. Wherever they raise their banners on College Campuses, or anywhere else, antisemitic acts whether in terms of intimidation or even violence, always follow. The hijacking of intersectional ideas in which the struggles of various minorities are seen as linked has enabled some academics and journalists to portray the war against the jewish state as somehow analogous to the struggle for civil rights in this country. This false analogy, which seeks to employ the linkage of human rights in order to legitimize antizionist rhetoric, is rooted in a pulse it. It is those who wish to discriminate against the one jewish state and its people who are spreading heads, not those who seek to defend zionism, which is the National Liberation movement of the jewish people, the suspect this form of antisemitic hate claim they are promoting peace. But their position is actually antithetical to the cause of peace as well as prejudice, because it seeks an outcome that could only be achieved by a genocidal war against israel and its people who will not submit to the overthrow of their Democratic State or the ethnic cleansing of their country. That is to matter who is spreading this form of hate, whether they are nonjews or in the case of a small focal left is minority, jews. Seeing clearly then, there is no doubt that those whose 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 or speaking out in favor of peace or human rights, but engaging in any form of hate that is inherently antisemitic. We must proceed from this unavoidable conclusion, to think that it must be the policy of the United States, and of decent people everywhere, to oppose anti semitic education 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. Antizionism is not merely anti semitism operating under a new false front, and those who deny this are spreading a big lie. It is imperative that we not only uses summit as a springboard for action against a noxious form of hatred and its troubling reappearance within the expense of survivors of the holocaust, but also to deny its appearance, a cloak of legitimacy with which they seek to clothe themselves. That is due on College Campuses or anywhere else. But it is especially important that we not let those who seek to educate or to deny those who go to college the right to do so without being immunized, shunned or silenced. Thank you. [ applause ] g 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 a swastika or with the nazis. It is more difficult, however, for many to identify antisemitism, the type that jonathan just described, the antisemitism that targets zionism and denies the right of jewish selfdetermination. So, i would like to focus a little bit more on that form of antisemitism. It is not uncommon today to hear people say i am not anti jewish, i am just antizionist. But is that really possible . Is it possible to support jews but oppose zionists . The answer is no. Why . Because zionism is an integral part of jewish identity. Zionism calming the yearning and desire of jews to exercise their right to Self Determination and to reestablish a jewish homeland in the land of israel is an inherent, ancestral and ethnic jewish characteristic. Zionism as a Political Movement may have originated in the 19th century, but this yearning for zion, the desire of jews to return to their ancestral homeland, doubt is thousands of years old. As old as abraham and the bible. To be a zionists means to support this right of jewish selfdetermination in the ancestral homeland of the jews. If i celebrate the fact that jews have once again return to the land of israel, if i celebrate that the jewish state of israel exists, then i am a zionist. Those who oppose zionism who oppose zionism denied use this right. Today, the father of the journalist daniel pearl, has coined the term for this. He calls it zion a phobia. An irrational fear or hatred of a homeland for the jewish people. The International Holocaust<