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“Harvard’s deliberate indifference to, and indeed enabling of, antisemitism on its campus constitutes an egregious violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964”

BREITBART Jewish Students Sue Harvard for Antisemitism Joel B Pollak January 11, 2024 A group of Jewish students sued Harvard University for antisemitism on Wednesday, alleging that it is violating Title VI of the U.S. Civil Rights Act by allowing … Continue reading

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“The Anne Frank Gift Shop” is joltingly, infectiously funny thanks to a dry humor-filled script by Rapkin, a seasoned journalist and writer who wrote “Pitch Perfect”

KVELLER Dark Comedy ‘The Anne Frank Gift Shop’ Is a Must Watch Lior Zaltzman January 5, 2024 The first time Mickey Rapkin went into the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam was a religious experience. “You can’t believe you’re there,” he … Continue reading

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Flight crew complained that passengers who switched seats made them uncomfortable

FORWARD Passengers accuse JetBlue of antisemitism after Orthodox Jews ordered off plane Beth Harpaz January 2, 2024 Three Orthodox passengers were ordered off a New Year’s Eve red-eye flight from California to New York after they changed seats. “My inflight … Continue reading

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Alice Walker, author of “The Color Purple,” in the mid-2010s began promoting works by an antisemitic conspiracy theorist and authored an antisemitic poem of her own

JTA As ‘Color Purple’ adaptation hits theaters, Alice Walker’s antisemitism returns to spotlight Andrew Lapin December 23, 2023 …But even as the reputation of “The Color Purple” has soared over the decades, Walker’s own has become more muddled — specifically … Continue reading

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Would College Students Donate to Support the Killing of Jews?

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The day after the game, five days after Harvard President Claudine Gay’s disastrous testimony before Congress, I decided to walk the campus to reminisce about my time at Harvard and reflect about what had gone wrong at this once-great university

WALL STREET JOURNAL An Antisemitic Occupation of Harvard’s Widener Library US Senator Dan Sullivan December 15, 2023 …When I walked upstairs to the famous Widener Reading Room, I couldn’t believe my eyes. Nearly every student in the packed room was … Continue reading

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From pre-K lessons on ‘ethnic noses’ to lectures on Israel as an apartheid state, students are learning that Jews are the enemy

THE FREE PRESS How U.S. Public Schools Teach Antisemitism Francesca Block December 19, 2023 …But the ideology fueling these demonstrations isn’t limited to the college campus. It now begins in public high schools and even elementary schools as early as … Continue reading

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While American Jews—as if in a time warp—keep wringing their hands over threats from “white supremacists” you’d have to be living under a rock not to see most of the serious threats to Jews today are coming from the left

TABLET MAG American Jews Need to Stop Being Stupid About Politics and start taking policy seriously Julia Hahn December 14, 2023 …The argument one now hears from American Jewish liberals searching for an excuse not to have to vote with … Continue reading

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Economist/YouGov poll also found a majority of Americans support the U.S. backing Israel in its war against Hamas. About 61 percent of Americans said it was either “very” or “somewhat important” to support Israel

THE HILL 1 in 5 young Americans think Holocaust was a myth Nick Robertson December 8, 2023 A fifth of Americans ages 18-29 believe the Holocaust was a myth, according to a new poll from The Economist/YouGov. While the question … Continue reading

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Three elite university presidents decline to say that calling for the genocide of Jews violates their codes of conduct

THE BULWARK Any Other Group Gregg Hurwitz December 6, 2023 AT A CONGRESSIONAL HEARING ON TUESDAY, the presidents of three formerly great institutions—Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, and MIT—demurred on the question of whether calling for the genocide of Jews … Continue reading

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