admin | September 13, 2022
(September 13, 2022 / JNS) Nearly a century ago, The New York Times hired Joseph W. Levy, who had spent his boyhood in Jerusalem, as its foreign correspondent in Palestine. Fascinated with archeological discoveries that affirmed the truth of the biblical narrative, Levy admired Zionist land development and the newly founded Hebrew University.
admin | September 13, 2022
The U.S. Department of Educations Office for Civil Rights has opened an investigation into a complaint alleging that Jewish students at the University of Vermont faced numerous instances of discrimination and harassment, which have altogether created a hostile environment on campus
admin | September 13, 2022
Lebanese international law expert Hassan Jouni said in a September 1, 2022 show on OTV (Lebanon) that the United States and the Zionist movement created Hitler and Nazism "in the same lab" that it would later use to create ISIS and terrorism.
admin | September 11, 2022
A leading expert on anti-Semitism has said that university campus groups "have the right to exclude Zionists." Writing in the Times of Israel, Kenneth Stern argued that, although it may be "hurtful" and counterproductive, the right of progressive groups to exclude advocates of the occupation state must be respected. Stern is the US attorney who took the lead in drafting the highly controversial International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism.
admin | August 6, 2022
On July 13, 2022, President Biden arrived in Israel for the tenth visit of his career.
admin | August 1, 2022
The Education Departments Office for Civil Rights has launched an investigation into alleged TitleVI violations by the University of Southern California. The investigation comes two years after acomplaint was filed on behalf of a student government leader who resigned following a campaign by USC studentsto impeach her over her support ofIsrael. The investigation could shed light on aheated debate overthe relationship between anti-Zionism and antisemitism, and its results could have wide-ranging implications for antidiscrimination practices and freedom of speech on college campuses.
admin | August 1, 2022
A French parliamentary deputy has issued a call for expressions of anti-Zionism to be legally prohibited on similar grounds to antisemitic incitement. Writing in the news outlet Valeurs Actuelles last week, ric Ciotti a parliamentarian from the city of Nice for the center-right Les Rpublicains (LR) Party lambasted anti-Zionism as the antisemitism that dare not speak its name. Ciotti pointed to aparliamentary resolution proposed at the end of July that denounced Israel as an apartheid regime, claiming that since its creation in 1948, Israel has pursued a policy aimed at establishing and maintaining a Jewish demographic hegemony and expanding its control over the territory for the benefit of Israeli Jews.
admin | August 1, 2022
The new Sunday Opinion editor of the New York Times will be Max Strasser, a longtime critic of Israel who, as a Times editor, championed Peter Beinarts public renunciation of Zionism. The news was greeted with dismay by at least one watchdog monitoring and combating anti-Israel bias in the press. Expect even more anti-Israel sentiment from NYT opinion.
admin | August 1, 2022
In a recent conversation about Zionist values, the following argument was made to me, The Jewish people were never meant to rule over another people, and doing so contradicts all Zionist values. This is a critique I receive frequently from Zionists upset with the current situation in Israel.
admin | August 1, 2022
(This is part of my memoir I published successively on the pages of Countercurrents on the Zionist invasion of Lebanon in 1982 and the destruction of the Palestinian refugee camp and the jail experience in the Zionist jails.) They took us to a detention camp in the Megiddo area, not far from where we were. There we found the prison contains hundreds of detainees who preceded us; most of them are Palestinians, some Lebanese, and some Arabs, but to a lesser extent. Somebody told me that this was the place for the Egyptian prisoners after the 1967 war, but I do not know how accurate this is.
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