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These names are being talked about to be the US anti-Semitism monitor April 7, 2021 5:34 pm Nancy Kaufman, seen in January 2019, said a number of people outside the Biden administration urged her to apply for the monitor's post, so she made her interest known to people inside the administration. (Tibrina Hobson/Getty Images) Advertisement WASHINGTON (JTA) — Nancy Kaufman, the former CEO of the National Council of Jewish Women, said this week that she had been in touch with the Biden administration about becoming this country’s newly empowered anti-Semitism monit...

IfNotNow smears IHRA definition as a 'threat' to progressivism   March 5, 2021 (JNS) — The self-proclaimed Jewish-American “progressive” organization IfNotNow hosted a discussion on Jan. 27 about “how the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism has been destroying the progressive movement.” The word “discussion,” may, in fact, be too generous a term for what was, in reality, a diatribe of misinformation. An address by Taher Herzallah, associate director of outreach and grassroots organizing for American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), took up much of the event. It should be noted ri...

At the height of the debate over Israel’s possible annexation of the West Bank last summer, J Street, the liberal pro-Israel group, was urging followers on social media to write to Senators opposing the move. Elan Carr, the State Department’s envoy to combat antisemitism, jumped in to take exception to J Street’s use in a Tweet of a photo of then-President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaking at the White House as Jared Kushner and two other Jewish advisers looked on. “How dare @jstreetdotorg use this picture in this context,” Carr said in a message fr...

IfNotNow smears IHRA definition as a ‘threat’ to progressivism IfNotNow smears IHRA definition as a ‘threat’ to progressivism For the group and its allies, the acknowledgment of the connection between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism likely hits too close to home, hence their crusade to smear it by any means necessary. (February 19, 2021 / JNS) The self-proclaimed Jewish-American “progressive” organization IfNotNow hosted a discussion on Jan. 27 about “how the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism has been destroying the progressive movement.” The word “discussion,” may, in fac...

Article content A University of Ottawa history professor says he’s deeply concerned about the chilling effect a Polish court ruling could have on Holocaust scholarship like his that seeks to explore the role of individual Polish collaborators. In a telephone interview from Poland on Wednesday, Prof. Jan Grabowski said the ruling, which demands an apology for “inaccurate information” published in a 2018 book he helped edit, has unleashed a frightening backlash. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or uOttawa Holocaust scholar worries about 'chill...