AJC Welcomes Report That Outlines Failures to Address Antisemitism at CUNY Campuses
“Given how deep and systemic the problem of antisemitism has been at CUNY, it is now in a position to effect meaningful change without delay or...
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Report on Antisemitism at CUNY Calls for Changes Across the System
An independent review ordered by Gov. Kathy Hochul has found that the City University of New York needs to “significantly” overhaul and update its...
The Nova Exhibition
That’s what non-Jews don’t understand. This isn’t a skirmish, this is about extermination. From the river to the sea. These Arabs...
How we can combat campus antisemitism
As colleges have revamped their general education requirements to weave in principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion, it is essential that...
NBA legend Shaq sends message of support to Oct. 7 massacre survivors
@SHAQ sends words of comfort to Camp Timberlane, which is hosting young Israelis who survived the October 7 massacre (or have relatives who were...
IDF Suspects Hamas Artillery Caused Deadly Fire in Rafah, Investigation Ongoing
The Israeli military suspects that munitions or some other combustible substance caused a secondary explosion and subsequent fire at a complex...
Opinion: Who’s in More Trouble: Israel or Iran?
Israelis are not “settler-colonialists.” Jews believe they are originally from the land of Israel because they are. And Zionism, far from being a...
Time Out! Can we talk about this?
Time Out! Can we talk about this? It’s time to find common ground across the chasm that divides the pro-Palestinian students on our university...
Has critical thinking at universities vanished?
Lost amidst the fog of war is the fact that the conflict began when Hamas violated an existing ceasefire by launching a sneak attack during a Jewish...
The Mission and Vision of People4Peace
People4Peace acts as a voice to educate and enlighten audiences worldwide about the Middle East, particularly regarding Israel’s challenges...
Salman Rushdie warns against ‘Taliban-like’ Palestinian state, rips pro-Hamas demonstrators
“But if there were a Palestinian state now, it would be run by Hamas and we would have a Taliban-like state,” Rushdie said. “a satellite state of...
Montana Tucker: ‘It’s us against the world, and we will prevail’
“What is happening today is way too similar. This is not an ‘Israel problem.’ This is a problem of the world. We see the rise of antisemitism in...
My Daughter Was Killed on October 7; Here Is My Message to the World
Jew hatred is a whitewashed word for antisemitism — and we need to stand as one against it. Anti-Israel, anti-Zionism, and anti-whatever are all the...
What a ‘Free Palestine’ Means in Practice
what the campus protesters happily envisage as a utopian, post-Zionist “state for all of its citizens” would under Hamas be one in which Jews were...
In Our Name: A Message from Jewish Students at Columbia University
Over the past six months, many have spoken in our name. Some are well-meaning alumni or non-affiliates who show up to wave the Israeli flag outside...
John Hopkins President Daniels is calling for an immediate end to the encampment
Over the past two weeks, at encampments at other institutions, we have seen altercations between protesters and counter-protesters and accusations...
‘Look At Me!’: Bill Maher Blasts ‘Narcissism’ Of Pro-Palestine Protesters
“If you really cared about apartheid so much, which Israel does not actually practice — Arabs there vote, they serve in Parliament, they sit on the...
An open letter to the Columbia University Gaza war protesters from a pro-Palestinian activist in Israel
And when you chant, “There is only one solution, intifada revolution!” and “From the Sea to the River, Palestine will live forever!” you are not...
Why Aren’t Palestinians and Their Allies Condemning Calls to Support Hamas on U.S. Campuses? – Opinion – Haaretz.com
“Where are those in the Palestinian, Palestinian-American, and pro-Palestinian community who should be telling those who support Hamas and...
I’m a Columbia Professor. The Protests on My Campus Are Not Justice.
if protesters were instead chanting anti-Black slogans or even something like “D.E.I. has got to die,” to the same “Sound Off” tune that “From the...
NYU Professor: Israel Is Seen As “Ground Zero For Whiteness” By Far-Left On Campus
“Incorrectly, students conflate the civil rights movement with what is going on in Palestine and have digressed, unfortunately, because of an...
To Be (Visibly) Jewish in the Ivy League
The sad fact of campus life today is that speech and behavior that would be considered scandalous if aimed at other minorities are treated as...
Loay Alshareef Post
Sharing a post (formerly twitter) from X from a credible Arab Muslim voice from the Middle East
In Gaza, Israel Helped Civilians During Hospital Raid, and Is Not Responsible for Famine
The problem in Gaza is not a lack of supplies entering it but the deliberate misdistribution of the supplies. Some of that misdistribution is the...
Freed hostage says Palestinian civilians abducted and sold her to Hamas
Nili Margalit, 42, on a tour of Europe to raise awareness of the 133 Israeli hostages still in captivity, told France’s Le Point magazine on Monday...
Assita Kanko Instagram Post
If you are a true pro-Palestinian, you should condemn Islamic terror group Hamas. You should demonstrate against Hamas. You should want better...
People4Peace Launched after 10/7, Combats Disinformation & Antisemitism
Since 10/7, some of us have seen the shocking video footage of the murders by thousands of Hamas terrorists from Gaza who invaded Israel and...
Anti-Zionism Is an Abhorrent Ideology Regardless of Antisemitism
Aside from being an explicit rejection of the entire post-World War II international order in its call to destroy a long-standing UN member state,...
The unshakable courage of Mandana Dayani, Debra Messing and Noa Tishby
Progress is not taking rights from one group of people to give them to another. The violence and targeting of Jews today is not activism. It is a...
The New Antisemitism
To emphasize the narrative of Jews as oppressors, the new antisemitism must also somehow sidestep not only two millennia of Jewish oppression, but...
Gazans take to streets to protest Hamas leadership, call out Sinwar and Haniyeh
In footage circulated on Palestinian social networks, residents are documented calling out against Hamas’s leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, and...
Believe all women, including Israeli women, too
Hamas’ attack on Israeli civilians — not military targets, civilians — was not done in secret. It was not done under the guise of virtue, nor were...
Hoyer: The United Nations’ historic anti-Israel bias emboldened Hamas
The UN’s predisposition against Israel has never been more apparent – or more harmful – than it is today, but it’s nothing new.
Senator Fetterman: There’s only one clear, right side and that’s with Israel
“For me personally, it’s been just incredibly easy to be on the right side. And I believe the right side is with Israel. Some people call that moral...
These Israelis and Palestinians Are Still Working for Peace. Just Quietly.
Positions have hardened on both sides in the face of the Gaza war, but some activists refuse to give up hope.
‘Silence is not an option’: Super Bowl ad on antisemitism to feature MLK speechwriter
one of the last living members of King’s inner circle, [Clarence B.] Jones has devoted much of his energy in recent years to maintaining...
Hamas commander tells troops it’s time to surrender to the IDF
A TERRORIST TRIED TO SELL MY SON’S HEAD IN GAZA’ SAYS FATHER OF SLAIN SOLDIER, Shin Bet confirmed they caught Abu al-Baraa an other terrorists who...
‘Son of Hamas’ joins Israeli public diplomacy campaign
Hamas is going nowhere, and if we continue to negotiate with them, they will continue stretching these negotiations, taking us into a rabbit hole...
Montana Tucker Advocates for Israeli Hostages at the 2024 Grammys with Yellow Ribbon Statement
Montana Tucker, the renowned singer/songwriter and social-media influencer, took a powerful stance at the 2024 Grammys, using her platform to raise...
Israel Implemented More Measures to Prevent Civilian Casualties Than Any Other Nation in History | Opinion
The sole reason for civilian deaths in Gaza is Hamas. For Israel’s part, it’s taken more care to prevent them than any other army in...
My Fellow Palestinians: It’s Time to Get Rid of Our Leaders and Accept Israel’s Offers for Peace | Opinion
As a Palestinian who genuinely yearns for a two-state solution and an improvement in living conditions in the West Bank and Gaza, I believe this...
Gen Z Is Listening to What Netanyahu Is Saying. Is Biden?
But there was nothing inevitable about the seeming impossibility of peace. It was built out of political decisions on both sides. It was built by...
White Supremacist Group Member Convicted of Federal Hate Crime for Defacing Michigan Synagogue with Neo-Nazi Symbols
“Today’s swift conviction sends a strong message that hate will not be tolerated in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula,” said U.S. Attorney Mark Totten for...
Hollywood stars join new campaign against Jew-hatred
“We all want the same thing: Freedom for Israelis and Palestinians to live side by side in peace,” the letter reads. “Freedom from the brutal...
We Must Implement the US National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism
First and foremost, we can’t be shy about the antisemitism we experience. Whether it’s a potential hate crime, an incident of harassment at an...
Congressional Dems intensify their pushback against Netanyahu with public defense of Palestinian state
“We are deeply concerned by Prime Minister Netanyahu’s public rejection of a two-state solution on January 18, and respectfully request that your...
Nova festival massacre survivors in France to recount horrors
partygoers—nearly one-third of the 1,200 people killed by Hamas terrorists during their mass invasion of the northwestern Negev. Many were wounded,...
The Meaning of Gaza’s Tunnels
If Hamas hides the bulk of its fighters and munitions in the tunnels, Israel somehow has to find, search and destroy those tunnels. If Hamas builds...
Op-ed: Is There a Safe Home for Jews in America?
My father, a child survivor of four concentration camps, came to Colorado because it reminded him of his home in Hungary, but with bigger mountains....
Ritchie Torres: Anti-Israel protesters celebrating Oct. 7 are like white people who cheered lynchings
A number of the protests have decried the Oct. 7 violence on Israelis, but others have skated over the initial massacres or have embraced Hamas and...
‘If this is a siege, let me live in a siege’ – journalist describes luxury living in Gaza
Gaza is a modern, beautiful and developed city – with large and well-equipped houses, wide boulevards, public spaces, a promenade by the sea, and...
We Jewish and Arab college students must have civil dialogue to build needed bridges
The raging discord defining our current relationship can be reversed if Jewish/Israeli and Arab/Palestinian students take the integral yet...
Coleman Hughes: The Struggle for Black Freedom Has Nothing to Do with Israel
In the Palestinian national movement, the common denominator has been the rejection of a Jewish state of any size and scope, as well as the...
Israeli women and girls have suffered horrific sexual violence from Hamas. Where is the outrage? | Ambassadors Deborah Lipstadt and Michèle Taylor
the voices of all women must be heard and believed. Any woman’s experience of gender-based violence should not be sidelined or discredited.
‘Sit this one out,’ Fetterman tells South Africa, of Israel genocide accusation
“Hamas is anathema to peace,” he added. “We’ll never have a stable, two-state solution, we’ll never have any peace for Israel until they are fully...
The Agony and Determination of Sderot
The world must understand that Israel’s fight is existential, that we will not cease until the Hamas threat is eradicated. The collective memory of...
‘I hope they shoot her, I hope it’s quick’
On that day, rockets began raining down on Israel at 6:30 a.m. Eden, who was working as a bartender at the festival, phoned her mother to inform her...
It’s Time for Hollywood to Step Up and Fight Antisemitism, Israeli-American ‘Outpost’ Filmmaker Argues (Guest Column)
“There is needed now, more than ever, a dedicated mission to combat antisemitism..
Hamas Tortured Me for Dissent. Here’s What They Really Think of Palestinians | Opinion
After criticizing Hamas for its horrific actions on Oct. 7, I made friends with Israelis for the first time in my life. It turns out that many of...
In rare move, US slams Israeli ministers by name for calling for Palestinian resettlement
“We have been clear, consistent and unequivocal that Gaza is Palestinian land and will remain Palestinian land, with Hamas no longer in control of...
French Students Launch Appeal to Make Oct. 7 ‘World Day Against Antisemitism’
One of France’s leading Jewish intellectuals is promoting a petition initiated by a group of students, several from Muslim backgrounds, calling for...
At These Schools, Arab and Jewish Students Share Their Feelings, With Each Other
“We need to be friends with each other and not fight,” one student at the Jerusalem school said in Arabic. “We can live in peace,” said another in...
Is AOC Half Right About Bethlehem?: Evidently her staff never bothered to inform her that, in fact, Israel is not occupying Bethlehem, “violently” or otherwise.
In short, by every criterion that Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez uses to judge political and social issues, the Palestinian Authority regime that...
Jewish Reality Star Julia Haart Rails Against Liberals, Feminists, LGBTQ+ Community for Not Condemning Hamas
During an interview with Israel’s ILTV Israel News on Thursday, Haart said she was baffled that feminist organizations have not spoken out against...
‘Screams Without Words’: How Hamas Weaponized Sexual Violence on Oct. 7
“That day, I became an animal,” she said. “I was emotionally detached, sharp, just the adrenaline of survival. I looked at all this as if I was...
Will anything make the world take Hamas’ sexual violence seriously?
So, too, is the denial of their suffering. Acknowledging the carnage of Oct. 7 won’t bring any of the victims back, ease the suffering of survivors...
Four Big Lies Driving the Alarming Surge in Antisemitism
The four big lies seek to delegitimize Israel and Zionism in order to legitimize attacks against Israelis and Jews.
Israel Expresses Regret for ‘Unintended Harm’ to Civilians in Gaza Airstrike
The Israeli military said it was “working to draw lessons” from an attack in central Gaza that was reported to have killed dozens of...
‘Jesus Would Be a Hostage in Gaza if He Was Alive Today,’ Says French Catholic Priest Who Pioneered Holocaust Research
“If he had lived in 1942, Jesus would have been deported to Auschwitz, and if he had been born today, he would be the target of missiles or be a...
United States Senator Kirsten Gillibrand condemns Hamas’ unprovoked terrorist attack against Israel and kidnapping of hostages
I fully condemn Hamas’ violent activity, reaffirm Israel’s right to protect itself, support the swift passage of President Biden’s emergency...
Hamas can end this
For Hamas, the only solution is destruction of the Jewish state, as explicitly stated in their charter. So Hamas will insist on fighting a war they...
Fetterman, Breaking With the Left on Israel, Rejects ‘Progressive’ Label
“I do find it confusing where the very left progressives in America don’t seem to want to support really the only progressive nation in the region...
Why Anti-Zionism Is Antisemitism
The attack is unexpected and brutal, but Reb Zushya endures it in stoic silence, until he eventually collapses unconscious on the floor, and the...
A day after being heckled for his Israel views, Ritchie Torres gets a hero’s welcome at Bronx Jewish school
Torres then turned to the students and said: “All of you are fighting for the right of Israel to exist as a Jewish state, and the right of Israel to...
A day after being heckled for his Israel views, Ritchie Torres gets a hero’s welcome at Bronx Jewish school
“I believe in Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state and I believe in the U.S.-Israel relationship and I’m never going to waver from that...
An Open Letter to Congressman Dan Goldman
We are grateful for your leadership during these difficult times and in the face of sometimes-withering adversity. We are heartened to see that...
Blinken takes issue with world focusing on demands of Israel, not Hamas
“What is striking to me is that even as we hear many countries urging an end to this conflict… I hear virtually no one demanding of Hamas that it...
“New School” Students Trample Memory of their Zionist Founder
Unlike today’s protesters, who hurl the term “genocide” at anybody they dislike, the refugee scholars who taught at the New School knew from...
Teen accused of planning mass shooting at Ohio synagogue ordered to write book report on WWII hero
A 13-year-old boy who was arrested and accused of planning a mass shooting at an Ohio synagogue will have to write a book report on a Swiss diplomat...
Why I Can’t Stop Writing About Oct. 7
Everything that was true before Oct. 7 became more so after it. Hate crimes against Jews, which had nearly quintupled in the previous 10 years, also...
“New School” Students Trample Memory of their Zionist Founder
In short, American Zionists and European Jewish refugees made the New School what it is today. They must be spinning in their graves at the...
Israel Gaza: Hamas raped and mutilated women on 7 October, BBC hears
“She was alive,” the witness says. “She was bleeding from her back.”
The View from Here
I’m a writer. A Jewish comedy writer. I know, hardly a rarity. In fact, one of the most oft-asked questions I get during the Q&A portion of...
Zionist Arab puts hostage photos, Israeli flag outside Rashida Tlaib’s office
He stood in front of the congresswoman’s office and called her antisemitic because Tlaib “refused to condemn the terrorist organization Hamas…and...
Opinion: After my grandmother’s ordeal in the Holocaust, I have to speak out against sexual violence by Hamas on October 7
I was raised with a deep understanding that injustice happens in a vacuum of silence. If people don’t speak up, evil operates with impunity. In the...
The Woman in the Hamas Video Is My Daughter
As a mother, I simply worry: Did my daughter’s captors give her a clean change of clothes, or is she still sitting in the same bloody sweatpants she...
The Alternate Universe of Antisemitism
But, curiously, the white, non-racist students aren’t standing up for them. Unfathomable. Some, in fact, have gone ahead and joined the barbaric...
Jewish American Families Confront a Generational Divide Over Israel
For at least a half-century, American Jews — the substantial majority of whom tend to be liberal and vote Democratic — have largely supported the...
My Egyptian Family Fought Israel Nobly. Hamas Are Nothing but Terrorists
It is time we all stood up for peace and against terrorism. It is time to put an end to turmoil in the Middle East: the tragic headlines, the...
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand: every American must care about the hostages
The children, the babies, the families, the mothers. Talk about their lives, talk about who they are, to make sure that the news media and the...
Son of Hamas Co-Founder Calls for Israel to Kill His Father Along With All Terror Group Chiefs in Gaza, Qatar
“Anyone who believes in justice knows we have to eradicate Hamas and if we don’t all humanity will pay the price. This is not only Israel’s fight....
Chuck Schumer: What American Jews Fear Most
Today, too many Americans are exploiting arguments against Israel and leaping toward a virulent antisemitism. The normalization and intensifying of...
Schumer warns ‘antisemites are taking advantage’ of pro-Palestinian effort
The Senate majority leader said antisemitism is coming from ‘people that most liberal Jewish Americans felt previously were their ideological fellow...
Majority Leader Schumer Delivers Major Address On Antisemitism On The Senate Floor
As the horrors of October 7th started coming into focus, the Israeli ambassador to China shared with me the story of what she heard had just...
Jewish Actor Jon Lovitz Tells Those Who Hate It When Jews Defend Themselves: ‘Tough S—t’
“I support Israel standing up for itself and destroying Hamas,” Lovitz tweeted. “So the Palestinians and Israelis can be free from Hamas terrorists...
Understanding the True Nature of the Hamas-Israel War
Any two-state solution down the road is impossible without a credible, legitimate Palestinian Authority that Israel trusts to govern a post-Hamas...
The Left Is Dooming Any Hope for a Palestinian State
Do the people chanting “Free Palestine” and “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” have any idea of the irreparable harm they’re doing...
Hamas’s ‘suffering’ excuse
“This is not war. This is murderous hatred. It is cynically bartering human lives, both Palestinian and Israeli, for publicity: The more...
After Students Target Pro-Israel Teacher, Officials Try to Quell Outrage
“Violence, hate and disorder have no place in our schools,” [NYC Schools chancellor] Mr. Banks, who himself attended Hillcrest in the...