The question raised by Mr. Pompeo’s anti-BDS policy is the determination of when criticism of Israel devolves into antisemitism. At what point does condemnation of Israel cross that redline?
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When a journalist comes across a letter written in 1939 she is moved by its desperate plea for help – and begins a quest to find the truth.
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Most Jews in the New York tri-state region think of Jackson Township, NJ, as only the bucolic home of the Six Flags Great Adventure amusement park; but, for the past four years, it has been the focal point of a major controversy, centering on the town’s growing Orthodox community’s charges of antisemitism and discrimination at the hands of the local municipal government.
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Anti-Semitism on Campus Student Leadership Assembly – after the tragic shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue and the heartbreaking murders in Jersey City
read moreWhile one could argue that anyone, using the term “lynching” when the victim is not being murdered is engaging in objectionable hyperbole, it is very unfair to say it is objectionable because it is about race. While in the US, most lynching victims were African-Americans, a significant proportion were not. Leo Frank was an example of a Jewish victim of a lynching.
read moreSimply call the Speaker’s office at 202-225-0100 and either tell a staffer or just leave a message informing her that you support bringing House Resolution 246 to a vote on the floor.
read morePerplexing to some that the Sunday, May 19, 2019 fundraising breakfast for Magen David Adom (MDA) has prompted an “Anti-Breakfast for Israel” protest by “Deir Yassin Remembered”.
read moreHistorical examples of anti-Semitic strain hatred, and the libels inciting hatred and violence
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Meet Sol Lurie, a native of Kovno in Lithuania, who was only 11 years old when the Nazis marched into his town in June 1941 and herded all the Jews into a ghetto.
read moreRep. Ilhan Omar’s antisemitic statement that AIPAC buys the support of American politicians for Israel is nothing more than the now-Congresswoman’s latest attempt to resurrect the baseless accusations against Jews that were originally aired in the notorious Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
read moreDoes the Finnish “artist” fight to withdraw his piece from the museum, presumably showing his concern for Muslim Palestinians, or does he fight to keep McJesus at the museum, showing his disdain for Christian Palestinians and his own distorted view of free speech?
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Remembering Dvinsk provides a lucid account, without painting a romantic picture, of life in this historic town.
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“It’s easy to give up because you feel you’re an underdog”
read moreMark Helprin is comfortable with Judaism and Israel, doesn’t see Jews as self-loathing Woody Allen wannabees, and knows Donald Trump is not an anti-Semite.
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