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The Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) is a socialist political party in the United States that incorporates virulent anti-Zionism as a core organizing principle.
June 10, 2021 By David Andrew Weinberg
In the last year, peace accords between Israel and four Arab states fueled predictions that several other Mideast governments might soon make amends with the Jewish state. Saudi Arabia, Mauritania, Oman, Kuwait, and Qatar were all identified as possible next candidates for peace with Israel. Reports also suggested that Turkey and Egypt, which recognize Israel but avoid fully normalized relations, might face new pressures to shift from cold…
June 08, 2021 Just as Jewish individuals and institutions have been targeted with antisemitism during the recent conflict between Israel and Hamas in many European cities, antisemitic incidents have also occurred in European soccer stadiums and antisemitic vitriol has reached unprecedented levels online.
Antisemitism has always been present in European soccer. Fans have written antisemitic, racist, neo-Nazi slogans on banners, sung them in songs, and shouted them during physical attacks on…
June 07, 2021 Los jóvenes judíos en Europa han experimentado un aumento del antisemitismo, odio y amenazas durante la crisis en Israel y la región. Los incidentes antisemitas en las manifestaciones, la quema de banderas israelíes frente a sinagogas y centros comunitarios judíos, las amenazas violentas y el vandalismo contra instituciones judías han hecho que se cuestionen su seguridad como judíos.
Bini Guttmann, presidente de la Uni…
May 21, 2021 By David Andrew Weinberg
In recent days, political cartoons in Middle Eastern publications have understandably focused extensive attention on the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. Unsurprisingly, some of these cartoons crossed the line from legitimate political satire to trafficking in antisemitic imagery and messages.
Common anti-Jewish tropes applied to Israel’s conduct by some of these cartoons included depictions of Jews being bloodthirsty…
May 20, 2021 In response to the recent conflict in Israel and Gaza, as well as the tensions in Jerusalem that led up to the violence, there have been some prominent voices, including among NGOs and activists, who have engaged in problematic rhetoric about Israel.
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always engendered strong passions and differences of opinion. In a crisis, such differences are of course heightened. And while exchanges of views - even harsh disagreements - are…
May 14, 2021 By: David Andrew Weinberg
Less than a year ago, a high-profile sermon at the Grand Mosque in Mecca fueled speculation Saudi Arabia might be prepared to follow some of its neighbors’ footsteps by making peace with Israel. However, clerics at Saudi Arabia’s Grand Mosque in Mecca as well as the Prophet’s Mosque in Medina sent a starkly different series of messages this week, in how they…
May 14, 2021 Young Jews in Europe are experiencing a spike in antisemitism and hate and threats as the crisis in Israel and the region escalates. Antisemitic incidents at demonstrations, the burning of Israeli flags in front of synagogues and Jewish community centers, violent threats and vandalism of Jewish institutions are causing them to question their safety as Jews.
Bini Guttmann, President of the European Union of Jewish Students (EUJS), the umbrella organization…
by: Carole Nuriel | May 14, 2021 The Times of Israel JERUSALEM — The State of Israel and Israeli society are currently in the throes of a major crisis, one of the gravest ever. For several weeks, we have been witnessing events that one after the other have escalated the situation. Now we have reached a point where Israel is engaged in direct warfare with Hamas, a U.S.-designated terrorist organization, along with a dangerous conflagration inside Israel that threatens to shred the…
Updated: June 1, 2021
Since the start of the May conflict between Israel and Hamas, there have been numerous antisemitic incidents around the world related to the conflict. The perpetrators of these attacks deliberately targeted Jewish institutions in order to express their anger towards Israel.
Whenever anti-Israel actions target synagogues, Jewish community centers, kosher restaurants, Jewish owned businesses, or individual Jews – in other words, holding Jews…
May 12, 2021 Some at Anti-Israel Protests Express Antisemitism, Support for Terror
Antisemitism and support for terror among a small but vocal segment of protesters at nationwide demonstrations sparked by ongoing violence in Israel and Gaza
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Video from a protest in Philadelphia shows a demonstrator declaring, “Israel controls the media.” Such a claim plays into the…
April 14, 2021 Appearing on a March 31, 2021 webinar organized by University of California-Berkeley lecturer and American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) board chairman Hatem Bazian, Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement co-founder Omar Barghouti veered into troubling rhetoric, expressing support for what is essentially a litmus test conditioning Jewish participation in interfaith dialogue on condemnation of Israel.
Barghouti stated, “Interfaith dialogue is perfectly fine so…
March 18, 2021 From March 6-12, 2021, anti-Israel groups American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) and UK-based Friends of Al-Aqsa held an all-virtual Aqsa Week, described on AMP’s website as “programs and educational webinars... that focused on Jerusalem, its Islamic significance...the Prophetic connection to Palestine to[sic] the dark era of the Crusades and US/UK policy towards Jerusalem.”
Many events, however, featured speakers who veered into inflammatory rhetoric,…
January 13, 2021 As images of the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol have been shared across social media, activists in the broader anti-Israel movement used photos that showed the appearance of an incongruous Israeli flag among pro-Trump protestors at the rally and outside the Capitol to falsely link Zionism and Israel with the extremism of January 6.
According to photos and reports, other national…
November 20, 2020 By David Andrew Weinberg
The Yemeni Embassy in Washington recently released a report featuring primary source documents on the core ideology of the Houthi insurgents who seized Yemen’s capital in 2014. That report, authored by Embassy official Salem Baafi, makes a case that antisemitism and other forms of hate form an essential part of the worldview and motivation of Yemen’s Houthi rebels.
The Houthis’ oft-invoked slogan is itself antisemitic…
October 06, 2020 Leila Khaled, longtime active leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and who has engaged in PFLP terrorist operations, keynoted an October 3, 2020 public webinar during which she expressed explicit support for violence and deep animus toward Zionists.
The webinar was convened by the far-left “anti-imperialist” group International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS). In her session, Khaled claimed that Jews,…
October 02, 2020 By David Andrew Weinberg
On September 12th, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo criticized the Iranian government for promoting an antisemitic libel about 9/11 as well as for announcing it will host another Holocaust cartoon contest. Sadly, it appears that repulsive antisemitic cartoon competition is officially now underway.
At the time of Secretary Pompeo’s tweet, little information was available about this worrisome new…
October 02, 2020 Leila Khaled is a longtime active leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and is well-known for her role in the hijacking of two civilian airliners, TWA Flight 840 in 1969 (bound for Tel Aviv from Rome) and El Al flight 219 in 1970 (traveling from Amsterdam to New York City).
In 1997, PFLP was designated as a terrorist organization by the United States Department of State, which cites the group as having carried out “large-scale…
October 01, 2020 A small but vocal segment of anti-Israel activists have engaged in inflammatory rhetoric in response to the recent normalization deals between Israel, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, which were inked in a ceremony on the White House lawn September 15. Since the Israel-United Arab Emirates deal was announced August 13, critique from some has veered into conspiracy theories (that at times have incorporated antisemitic tropes) and language justifying violence and demonizing…