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Know Your Rights – Workers and Students

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surgeons at a hospital
 Know Your Rights: Addressing Antisemitism in Healthcare WorkplacesDisclaimer: *This resource is not intended to and should not be interpreted as providing legal advice. Please consult with your own legal counsel. This resource is for medical professionals, healthcare staff, and students and trainees in health care settings who experience antisemitic discrimination, harassment, or hostility at work—whether it comes from colleagues, supervisors, vendors, or patients.  It is…
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Know Your Rights – Patients

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 Know Your Rights: Jewish Patients & Antisemitism in Health CareDisclaimer: *This resource is not intended to and should not be interpreted as providing legal advice. Please consult with your own legal counsel. Have you ever… Felt you were being treated unfairly at a doctor’s office, hospital, or clinic because you are Jewish?Overheard antisemitic remarks from medical staff or others in a healthcare setting?Felt pressured to hide your Jewish identity or connection to…
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Call to Action: Reform the UN Special Rapporteur System

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We have long expressed deep concern over UN Special Rapporteurs who abuse their mandates, utilize antisemitic tropes, trivialize the Holocaust, and support violence against the Jewish state, to drive political agendas. While we recognize the complexity of the removal process for Special Rapporteurs and the importance of maintaining their independence, the current system has allowed for individuals whose conduct conflicts with the UN’s core values to continue serving in these influential…
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Roger Waters en sus propias palabras

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Roger Waters, cofundador y vocalista de la banda Pink Floyd, es un destacado activista antiisraelí y partidario del movimiento de Boicot, Desinversión y Sanciones (BDS). Su activismo se ha caracterizado cada vez más por hacer uso de tópicos antisemitas, incluidos el del poder judío o "sionista", comparar a Israel con la Alemania nazi, y menospreciar a cualquiera que manifieste apoyo, aunque sea tangencial, a la existencia de Israel. La retórica…
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Roger Waters In His Own Words

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Roger Waters, the co-founder and lead singer of the band Pink Floyd, is a leading anti-Israel activist and vocal supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement. His activism has increasingly been characterized as playing into antisemitic tropes, including those about Jewish or “Zionist” power; comparing Israel to Nazi Germany; and disparaging anyone who conveys even tangential support for Israel’s existence. Waters’ inflammatory rhetoric spans back…
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Louisiana v. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (U.S.C.A. 5th Circuit, 2022)

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Under the Trump Administration and continued under the Biden Administration, a public health law called Title 42 has been used against many seeking asylum and other forms of immigration relief at the U.S. border, denying them entry under the pretext of covid-19 prevention. The Biden Administration had announced that it would stop expelling migrants under Title 42 starting May 23, 2022. The plaintiff states in this case are challenging the Title 42 wind-down on Administrative Procedure Act…
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Antisemitic Incidents at Anti-Israel Events and Actions Around the World

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Antisemitic Graffiti on a Synagogue Door in Norwich, UK
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…
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Global Antisemitism: Select Incidents in 2021

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January  Argentina A Jewish family was physically and verbally assaulted  Canada Swastikas were spray painted on a synagogue  Greece A monument to the Holocaust was defaced Iraq  Antisemitic comments were made by the country's former Prime Minister Poland Nazi symbols were spray painted on the wall of a Jewish cemetery  Turkey Classic antisemitic tropes appeared in a pro-government…
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United Nations Partition Plan 1947 (UN Resolution 181)

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Following the British announcement that it would end its authority over Palestine, the question of sovereignty was considered by the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP). The UNSCOP report recommended the division of the British Mandate-controlled area of Palestine into two states, one Arab and one Jewish, with Jerusalem to be an “international” city. According to the plan, the two states, roughly equal in size and natural resources, would cooperate on major…
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Global Anti-Semitism: Selected Incidents Around the World in 2017

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Barbados St. Michael – March 17, 2017 – Anti-Semitic message were spray painted on the exterior walls of the Nidhe Israel Synagogue. Brazil Rio de Janeiro – June 11, 2017 – A swastika was drawn inside a Star of David sign outside the entrance of Clube Israelita Brasileiro, a Jewish community building. Porto Alegre – March 25, 2017 – A Jewish school was painted with the words “Israel genocide state” and “Free Palestine…
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Why Didn’t Israel Withdraw from the Territory It Gained During the Six Day War?

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Following the end of the Six Day War there was great debate within Israel about what to do with the territories gained during the war, which included East Jerusalem, the West Bank, Gaza Strip, the Sinai Peninsula and the Golan Heights. Some in Israel advocated an immediate withdrawal from the territories. Others supported a withdrawal only in exchange for peace with the surrounding Arab countries. And some, euphoric over the reunification of Jerusalem and control over Judaism’s…
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Did Israel Start the Six Day War?

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Israel preemptively attacked Egypt on June 5, 1967. After a month of increasing regional tensions escalated by Egypt (spurred on by the Soviets) and failed diplomatic efforts to calm the situation, Israel’s leaders believed they had no choice but to strike first. Within hours, Jordan and Syrian forces attacked Israelis forces. In May 1967, events in the region led Israel to expect that an Arab attack was imminent. Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser had ordered a withdrawal of the…
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Key Dates In Israel's History

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February 14, 1896 Publication of Theodor Herzl's treatise "The Jewish State" August 29, 1897 Opening of the First Zionist Congress at Basel, Switzerland November 2, 1917 Issuing of Boycott (on the Jewish community of Palestine) July 22, 1946 Irgun bombs King David Hotel February 14, 1947 Britain gives UN responsibility for Palestine November 29, 1947 UN Partition Plan approved (Resolution 181) May 14, 1948 Declaration of the State of Israel …
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Key Facts About Israel

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Flag The colors blue and white were chosen according to the colors of the ‘Tallit’ – the Jewish prayer shawl. The Star of David appearing in the center of the flag has been a Jewish symbol for hundreds of years. State Emblem The official emblem of the State of Israel is the Menorah – a candelabrum, whose shape is derived from the sage plant (Moria). In certain species of the plant, the leaves branch out in a way that resembles the candelabrum that stood in the…
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The Iranian Nuclear Threat: Why it Matters

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On July 1, 2019, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) announced that Iran had exceeded its agreed-to limit on the volume of its stockpile of enriched uranium, putting heightened concerns about an Iranian nuclear weapons program back in the headlines.  Days later, Iran proclaimed it had enriched uranium to about 4.5% purity, again breaching prior agreed to levels.  Since then, Iran has announced numerous other accelerations of its nuclear program that specifically exceed…
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