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“Britain’s fight against #anti-Semitism and extremism cannot be allowed to fail”

DAILY MAIL Number of hate crimes against Jews soars as report says anti-semitism is at the ‘core’ of far-Left beliefs by Martin Beckford May 1, 2016 The number of hate crimes against Jews in Britain has reached a shocking new … Continue reading

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Invoking the ever-reliable “Israelis are Nazis” meme, former London Mayor Ken Livingstone in hot water for commenting “Hitler supported Zionism” [VIDEO]

TIMES OF ISRAEL Herzog to UK Labour leaders: Visit Yad Vashem, remember what happened to the Jews by Staff April 30, 2016 Israel’s opposition leader Isaac Herzog responded furiously Saturday to the ongoing row over anti-Semitism in Britain’s Labour Party, … Continue reading

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Israel and the Jewish diaspora make progressive pieties look silly

NATIONAL REVIEW Why the Left Hates Jews by Kevin D. Williamson April 29, 2016 …For those who learned at the feet of that old fraud Edward Said, the Jews are the colonialists, the European modernists inflicting capitalism and technology upon … Continue reading

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“The silencing of Jerusalem’s mayor is only symptomatic of the political rot that pervades San Francisco State University” [VIDEO]

JEWISH JOURNAL San Francisco State University’s selective free speech policy by Abraham H. Miller April 18, 2016 When a group of Muslim students and their leftist allies used the illegal heckler’s veto to shut down the speech by Jerusalem Mayor … Continue reading

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At a time of much campus sensitivity about so-called micro-aggressions and the need to render campuses safe spaces, why are macro-aggressions against Jews so freely tolerated ?

FRONT PAGE MAG Targeting Jews in the Ivory Sewer by Kenneth Levin April 15, 2016 …The targeting of Jews on American campuses, as well as the defaming and targeting of the Jewish state, can be construed as in large part … Continue reading

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“In the Middle Ages, Jews were hated because of their religion. In the 19th and 20th centuries they were hated because of their race. Today they are hated because of their nation state, Israel. Anti-Zionism is the new anti-Semitism”

NEWSWEEK Anti-Zionism is the new anti-Semitism, says Britain’s ex-chief rabbi by Jonathan Sacks April 3, 2016 …Nor is this a problem in Europe alone. A 2015 survey of North American Jewish college students by Brandeis University found that three-quarters of … Continue reading

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“The persecution of Jews in Arab lands had not ceased since the rise of Muhammad who, in 626 C.E., enslaved, expelled or beheaded the three leading Jewish tribes of the Arabian Peninsula”

ISRAEL HAYOM Forgotten Jewish refugees by Yoram Ettinger April 8, 2016 …The CIA assessed that “a second Jewish Holocaust in less than 10 years” would be the response to the establishment of a Jewish state. In fact, 820,000 Jews were expelled … Continue reading

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Current pro-Israel efforts among Jewish millennials will fail because they’re targeting the symptom rather than the syndrome

THE FEDERALIST How To Revive Jewish Support For Israel by Jonathan Bronitsky April 5, 2016 …Assimilation, broadly understood, is the obvious reason younger Jews aren’t as interested in Israel as their forebears. They weren’t around during the Holocaust and they … Continue reading

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“University leaders who are so quick to stand up against microagressions against other groups remain silent in the face of anti-Semitism”

WASHINGTON POST Colleges have become hypersensitive to racial prejudice. Why not anti-Semitism? by Lawrence H. Summers March 31, 2016 It has seemed to me that a vast double standard regarding what constitutes prejudice exists on American college campuses. There is … Continue reading

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UK’s Nick Cohen: “Why I’m Becoming A Jew And Why You Should, Too”

TIMES OF ISRAEL Why a militant atheist Brit decided to become a Jew by Jenni Frazer March 30, 2016 …in 2007 [Nick] Cohen wrote a book, “What’s Left? [How the Left lost its Way]”, a provocative and witty account of … Continue reading

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