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Brown University Discussion of “New Antisemitism” Slams Zionism

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Brown University’s Watson Institute for International & Public Affairs’ website says it is “Seeking to promote a just and peaceful world through research, teaching and public engagement.” It gives someone hope that it is a force for good.

Alas, it spreads antisemitism while pretending to address the scourge.

On October 15, 2022, Brown hosted “The New Antisemitism and the Contemporary Middle East,” which one would imagine would address the horrible antisemitism in the Palestinian Arab community and throughout the Muslim Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. A viewer might have expected any of the following to have been addressed:

The list goes on. There is a disgraceful history of outright Jew-hatred in the “Contemporary Middle East” and Brown University had an opportunity to explore the evil.

Brown University Webinar on Antisemitism was all about the perceived evils of Zionism

The panel had two moderators: Nadje Al Ali and Katharina M Galor, both from Brown University. The speakers were Amos Goldberg of Hebrew University, Raef Zreik of Ono Academic College, Sherene Seikaly of UC Santa Barbara, and Noura Erakat of Rutgers. A mix of Jews and Arabs seemed like a good start to explore the rabid antisemitism in the region.

Goldberg led off the talk with a rant against the IHRA definition of antisemitism, claiming that it undermined the Palestinian narrative discussing Israeli “apartheid.” He added the “IHRA definition is a direct assault on truth,” (17:30) because it included a statement “denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g., by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor”

Zreik followed Goldberg and also lambasted the IHRA definition and said that Israel engages in “ethnic cleansing.”

Seikaly defined antisemitism as only being relevant when coming from White Supremacists and Nazis. She pivoted that Zionism was a concocted European invention to help fight antisemitism. She claimed that Zionism “promised Jews they could finally become European but only by leaving Europe.” (35:00) Zionism created the “ongoing Nakba” and that “the struggle for Palestinian freedom is a crucial step in ending this logic.” (35:40) In other words, she argued that destroying the Jewish State will emancipate Jews from the European invented defense of Jews.

WTF?

Erakat pushed this narrative further, that antisemitism only exists alongside racism when pushed by White Supremacists. She offered that Jews fall into two camps: the Zionists which back a racist state, and anti-Zionists who are anti-racist.

So a webinar about antisemitism in the Middle East devolved into a long attack on the Jewish State. They claimed that Israel is a racist state and therefore hating Zionism is actually the opposite of antisemitism; it is the fight against racism.

Goldberg leaned into this further when he said that Israel doesn’t even care about antisemitism, (48:25) and just uses it to push the Palestinian narrative off-stage.

Zriek continued his story that Palestinians suffer from dispersion, occupation, settler colonialism, and were victims of Jews. That is the only lens through which he believes one can look at Jews in the Middle East: they were victims in Europe but are oppressors in Palestine.

Seikaly ended the talk with “opposing antisemitism, opposing all forms of racism, and opposing Zionist settler colonialism,” (1:15:55) setting herself as a champion for Jews and all forms of hate, which includes hating Jewish supremacy.

Rather than addressing rampant antisemitism in Palestinian society, Brown University gave a lecture that Jews are not indigenous to the holy land and part of a European racist colonial project. At this Ivy, antisemitism is definitionally only a feature of the far-right, and should not be confused with Muslim Arabs fighting Jewish racism which might look like antisemitism to those who are racists and Islamophobes.

America’s universities are not only ignoring violent jihadi antisemitism, they are attempting to reframe it as a just fight against Jewish racists.

It is no wonder that we are witnessing universities celebrating the hideous pogrom launched by Hamas on October 7.

ACTION ITEM

Contact the large Brown University donors “Stop supporting Brown University which whitewashes Palestinian antisemitism and seeks to destroy Israel” Top donors include the Andrew Mellon Foundation ($42m) tel (212) 838.8400, the Ford Foundation ($5.7m) tel (212) 573.5000 and Arnold Ventures

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Toss The Ivy Paper Monsters

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There was a time when elite institutions successfully hawked their wares in an effort to stuff more cash into their bloated pockets. Universities like Harvard, Columbia and Cornell would shill like snake oil salesmen that thousands of dollars ponied up for pieces of paper with their embossed emblems would lead to greater riches, so a worthwhile investment.

Harvard’s online course on “leadership”

But the fragrance has left the rose and all that remains are prickly thorns from these former institutions of higher knowledge.

The weeks of October 2023 will be remembered for when the world blanched at the horrific comments stemming from the institutions’ leadership, professors and students, either endorsing or excusing the maiming and butchering of over 1,000 people in Israel.

At Cornell, professor Russell Rickford called the Hamas atrocity “exhilarating” and “energizing” before a crowd. Jewish students at the school were threatened with violence in a number of online posts.

Somehow, the school thinks that people still believe that the institution has a shred of morality to offer a course on the “psychology of leadership.”

Cornell University offering a course on “leadership” pitching that it “leads with empathy”

Columbia University professor Joseph Massad thought Hamas’s burning families alive was “awesome.” This is the same university that INVITED Malaysian Prime Minster Mahathir Mohamad to speak on campus, even though he is a known Holocaust denier and “proud antisemite.” It also INVITED Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who threatened to wipe Israel off the map.

No worry. For several thousands of dollars you can get a paper from the school attesting to your skills at “communication,” because maybe you can find an employer stupid enough to believe that the certificate you bought from a formerly elite university is worth something.

Columbia hawking a communications degree for anyone willing to pay

Harvard is producing so many quality students that gleefully stand in support of Hamas that the school’s paper will now be known as the Bloody Crimson. Clearly everyone should purchase a “leadership” piece of paper from a school that produces such evil creatures.

America’s universities have become cesspools of radical socialism and jihadism, and the world has taken notice. People will no longer pay for worthless pieces of paper from morally bankrupt institutions which funnel proceeds to classes labeling Zionism a form of “European settler colonialism.” Employers are now shunning the schools, and people are removing any mention of them from their LinkedIn profiles.

Ivy League universities are churning out monsters. Finally, Americans are recognizing the rot and seeking to quarantine them before they destroy what was once the land of the free.

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The Rising Generation Discusses Universities

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The Tikvah Fund hosts an annual event in New York City with great speakers discussing Jewish thought, Zionism and Western Philosophy. Hundreds of people attend, mostly from the tri-state area but also Israel, the United Kingdom, Canada and even Brazil.

This year’s event was centered around “THE RISING GENERATION: WILL OUR CHILDREN DEFEND AMERICA, ISRAEL, AND JEWISH CIVILIZATION?” While always a timely subject for Tikvah which focuses on educational programs for middle school through university, the rising antisemitism on college campuses made the focus on the rising generation even more pressing.

The first roundtable discussion after an incredible speech by Ruth Wisse featured: Dore Feith (Columbia), Zach Kessel (Northwestern), Alexandra Orbuch (Princeton), Josh Blustein (University of Chicago), Tal Fortgang (New York University). Each student discussed their experience on campus, ranging from antisemitic groups such as Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), to terrible administrations which could not bear to clearly condemn the barbarity of Hamas’s terrorist attack on October 7.

Student panel at the Jewish Leadership Conference, October 29, 2023

Tal Fortgang concluded the discussion by making four observations about the state of academia in the United States today.

1. University presidents today do not stand by Jews, as evidenced by the amount of time and statement revisions issued to condemn the heinous Hamas attacks. The fifth attempt at condemnation reads like a hostage note written by lawyers.

2. Socialists and foreign entities have colonized the elite institutions. Dore Feith shared that the de-colonialist worldview has infiltrated every department in universities and is now part of the core curriculum at Columbia. Every student is fed a charged philosophy, including that Israel is a European Colonial settlement. There is no room left to debate this hallowed dogma at the Ivy League institutions.

3. There is a dire need to reexamine the admission policy at schools. While schools manage to be highly selective about GPAs and standardized test scores, somehow they manage to “accept 25% of students who are genocidal maniacs.” Based on recent videos of SJP on campus, it’s not an exaggeration.

4. Everyone must do their utmost to “drain the residual prestige which remains for these institutions.” They no longer teach people how to think but what to think, and the modern tenets are immoral by any measure other than a lens of radical socialism. The effort to drain those schools means no longer sending money or children to the school. It may also mean no longer recruiting students for jobs from those institutions.

A letter was shared at a New Jersey Jewish high school which said it would no longer allow some universities to present on site unless they attest that the schools are safe.

Letter from the Torah Academy of Bergen County, NY

Jewish institutions, parents and students are taking a new look at Jewish life at America’s leading universities and are not pleased with what they see. Perhaps not coincidentally, Yeshiva University, America’s flagship Jewish university, had admissions jump by 25% over the past three years. It is likely to see a continued surge in the coming years.

ACTION ITEM

Write to your alma mater’s administration, office of the president and alumni affairs “I am appalled at the antisemitism rampant on your campus. I will no longer send donations nor encourage family members to attend your institution. I will pressure high schools to not allow your school to present on campus, and ask my place of employment to stop recruiting from your school.”

Columbia University- alumni affairs caaalumnirelations@columbia.edu
UPenn- alumni affairs alumni@ben.dev.upenn.edu
Cooper Union- alumni@cooper.edu

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Palestinian Authority Tries To Fan Flame Of Global Intifada While War Rages In Gaza

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Wafa, the Palestinian Authority’s official state-run news agency, has once again tried to incite 1.8 billion Muslims to fight Jews and the Jewish State.

On October 25, 2023, as the 2023 Gaza War raged, Wafa wrote “Israeli settlers storm Jerusalem’s Aqsa Mosque,” another lie in its long history of lies to incite a jihad.

The Temple Mount has regular visiting hours and Jews have always used it to visit their holiest site. That angers Jordanian and Palestinian Arabs that Jews claim to have rights to the location which Arabs falsely assert is a purely Islamic holy place.

The Wafa article was horrific from its headline to its last sentence:

“JERUSALEM, Wednesday, October 25, 2023 (WAFA) –  Dozens of Israeli settlers Wednesday morning stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied Jerusalem, under protection from Israeli occupation police, according to local sources.

Witnesses said scores of settlers entered the Al-Aqsa Mosque in separate groups, where they conducted provocative tours through the courtyards of the mosque, received explanations about the alleged “Jewish Temple,” and performed Talmudic rituals near the Dome of the Rock.

This latest incident adds to the ongoing tensions surrounding Al-Aqsa Mosque, the third most revered site in Islam. The entry of settlers into the compound, backed by Israeli security forces, is often met with condemnation from Palestinian officials and religious authorities.

The Islamic Waqf, the Jordan-run authority in charge of the holy site, has repeatedly called for international intervention to prevent these incursions, which are seen as a direct challenge to the status quo of the holy site and an affront to the sentiments of Muslims worldwide.

Since 2003, the Israeli occupation authorities have been allowing Israeli Jewish settlers into the compound almost on a daily basis, with the exclusion of Friday, the Muslim day of rest and worship.

Israel captured East Jerusalem, where Al-Aqsa Mosque is located, during the Six-Day War in 1967 in a move never recognized by the international community.

Al-Aqsa Mosque is subjected to almost daily incursions by Israeli settlers, except on Saturday and Sunday, which are done under the heavy guard of the Israeli police in an attempt to divide the mosque spatially and temporally between Muslims and Jews.“

Jews visit their holiest location during regular visiting hours and need protection of police to keep Muslims at the site from attacking them. Jews go because it is the location of two Jewish Temples and the physical center of Judaism. The fact that Muslims get upset does not make it a “provocation” but goes to the antisemitism of those Muslims.

The Palestinian Authority is attempting to get 1.8 billion Muslims riled up against Jews at this most dangerous time. It must be condemned clearly and quickly and forced to stop promoting lies and incitement.

ACTION ITEM

Email White House “Get the Palestinian Authority to stop claiming that Jews are desecrating the Al Aqsa Mosque in an attempt to incite 1.8 billion Muslims around the world to attack Jews.

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An Open Letter To Progressive Diaspora Jews

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Dear Progressive Diaspora Jews,

I feel for you.

First you broke with your religious friends. You decided that Orthodox Jews were homophobic and against the broad LGBT+ community. In Israel, they were portrayed as sucking off the system and not paying taxes, while in the US they did much the same, while denying young children a proper education. 

Then you purged your right-of-center family to gain alliances. You and your comrades labeled the right-wing “racists,” and refused to have them to your house or dine with them anymore. 

You gave up your Jewish homeland, buying into the narrative that Israel is some version of “European settler colonialism.” You joined calls to boycott the Jewish state, its institutions and people.

In doing so, you unwittingly gave up your heritage and history. You absorbed the narrative that Jews have no place on “Arab land” and don’t belong in the region.

The embrace of all of those approaches was summed up in supporting the ban of Jews from living in the heart of the biblical homeland. You even supported blocking Jews from visiting the holiest place on the Temple Mount, and to pray there, upset that Muslims found it offensive.

Having shunned former friends and family, history and heritage, religion and rights of Jews, you joined your left-wing brothers in all of their causes. Having passed the indoctrination ritual of shedding any particularism and “privilege”, you thought you had clearly earned the right to be called a Socialist comrade.

You even joined anti-Israel groups like J Street and New Israel Fund which pour millions of dollars into campaigns to make Israel appear racist, and successfully got minorities and LGBT people into positions of power.

You even excused your intersectional brothers who called you out as the “enemy” despite your support. You internalized that if minorities were still calling you an enemy after everything you had done, it was evidence that you needed to do more.

But now, after the October 7 Hamas massacre, they have asked you to forsake your humanity. To excuse the beheading of children and burning families alive. To ignore the rape of women and killing of old people. To turn a blind eye to the torture of innocent people and abduction of hostages.

New York Times on October 21, 2023 about Progressives bemoaning the treatment by their intersectional allies after the brutal massacre of 1,400 people in Israel

As your “allies” celebrate the most vicious cruelty to Jewish men, women and children, you pause to think that despite shedding almost every Jew and Zionist from your life, your intersectional brothers still see you as a Jew unless you can join them in cheering the slaughter of Jews and destruction of the Jewish State.

You watch as some fellow Jews like members of Jewish Voice for Peace jump that challenge and cozy to the jihadists. But you pause. Isn’t this obviously morally repugnant you ask yourself?

Your socialist and radical Islamic brothers have killed more than your left-wing friends at the Israeli dance festival and beheaded more than just innocent children in their homes.

They destroyed your faith in a manner more cruel perhaps, than Nazis burning Jews in the town synagogue. Those European Jews had community and faith when they perished. But you, you stand alone and naked as they butcher everyone you know.

I do not gloat. I am not telling you I told you so after I’ve shown you what THEY say and believe for years.

I know that you and your friends painted the “right wing” as irredeemable monsters long ago. But we never abandoned you.

Please come back. Mourn with us. Help identify our dead.

You need to sit shiva too.

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The Antisemitic Campus: Decolonize Palestine

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There are several matters fomenting antisemitism at universities. One of them surrounds the topic of “decolonialization” and its impact on Jews on campus.

It is a plain fact that many European countries planted colonies in far away lands. The United Kingdom planted flags in the Americas, South Africa, India and Australia. Portugal took over Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, Macau and others. Belgium took the Congo. France had controlled Morocco, Algiers, Tunisia, Senegal, Cameroon and Madagascar. Spain took much of Central and South America while Italy took Libya. It seemed that any European country with a fleet sailed the world from the 15th to 19th century and seized lands and goods.

In the aftermath of the Second World War, European countries left their colonies and those emerging countries had varying degrees of success establishing new functioning governments. Universities established departments devoted to this topic, which analyze how the past 75 years shape events today, such as Brown University connecting the 2011 Arab Spring to “Decolonization, Development and State Building in North Africa.”

Many of the departments and conferences consider how post-colonial state-building left countries vulnerable to autocratic regimes. The issues are typically handled by region, such as Columbia University discussing decolonialization in the Americas in the Latin American Studies department and those in Africa in the Middle East Studies departments. Other schools do much the same.

Things devolve when it comes to Israel.

Many professors in Middle East Studies departments are deeply anti-Israel. They consider the Jewish State to be a colony thrust upon the local Arab population by the United Kingdom and other countries after World War I. They ignore the fact that the UK did not send any Jewish citizens to Palestine nor did the British seize local resources for British use.

Most glaringly, the anti-Israel professors ignore the fact that Jews are indigenous to the land of Israel. The history of Jews and the core of Judaism is in the Jewish holy land.

Those basic truths are not only ignored on university campuses, but a counter-narrative is proffered. For example, Columbia University’s Joseph Massad called the Jews in the Bible “Palestine Hebrews,” ignoring the reality that Arabs did not come to the land en masse until the 7th and 8th centuries.

It’s grossly antisemitic, and ignored by the school administration.

Beyond the cultural appropriation and historical theft, the anti-Israel movement manufactured a lie that Zionism isn’t even Jewish. At a BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) vote at the University of Wisconsin in 2017, a student said “Israel in its inception is not a Jewish idea but a European one,” a principle at the heart of the decolonialization project.

That insane idea is gaining backers. The Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism (ICSZ) is hosting conferences to advance this proposition in universities around the country. According to its “Points of Unity” which people must sign-on to, the number one affirmation is “Zionism is a settler colonial racial project. Like the US, Israel is a settler colonial state. The Institute opposes Zionism and colonialism, and abides by the international, Palestinian-led call for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions.”

Its webite goes on that it “aims to support the delinking of the study of Zionism from Jewish Studies, and to reclaim academia and public discourse for the study of Zionism as a political, ideological, and racial and gendered knowledge project, intersecting with Palestine and decolonial studies, critical terrorism studies, settler colonial studies, and related scholarship and activism.”

This group is trying to sever Jews from the Jewish State and Zionism, and place Zionism in the camp of “decolonial studies” and “critical terrorism studies.”

It is Abhorrent. Repugnant.

And given air at today’s universities.

This antisemitic group is made up of a bunch of teachers in the California school system, teachers at New York University who pushed to boycott Israel, Sarah Lawrence, UMass, and Jewish anti-Zionists like Jewish Voice for Peace and Alissa Wise.

Not surprisingly, this group masks its Jew-hatred under the guise of “academia.” It said that Jews had the October 7 savagery coming to them as part of decolonialization, and was outraged at Jews demanding justice. ICSZ wrote an “open letter to universities and other institutions, demanding they retract their statements endorsing Israeli genocide against Palestinians.” By “genocide”, they meant Israel trying to rescue 200 hostages seized by Hamas, pursue maximum justice for the Satans of Gaza who butchered 1,400 Israelis, and try to return the region to coexistence on either side of the border. Equally upsetting to these evil people at ICSZ, they were “horrified by the ubiquity of messaging from our university administrations that has expressed empathy for Israeli life,” because beheading children and raping women doesn’t deserve “empathy” if the “victims” are Jewish “colonizers.”

This is the state of American academia.

Universities are miseducating students that Jews have no history in the land of Israel and that the Jewish State’s founding was a racist European colonial project. They believe that Israel’s continued existence is an “ongoing Nakba” and Israel must be dismantled “by any means necessary,” which includes the October 7 massacre.

When Joseph Massad of Columbia University wrote about the “start of the Palestinian War of Liberation,” he did not see Arab terrorists hacking children to death and killing the elderly; he saw freedom fighters throwing off the yolk of oppression of Jewish invaders as a moment of “jubilation and awe.”

This depravity is no longer a small fringe. Consider that Brown University hosted “Decolonizing Palestine: Hamas between the Anticolonial and the Postcolonial,” which promoted the idea to “normalize and globalize Hamas.” (27:00)

America’s universities are indoctrinating students in the antisemitic screed of the Hamas Charter, retouched with leftist jingoism to support the slaughter of Jews. And they are pushing the movement to go global. Jews on campuses everywhere have every reason to be terrified.

ACTION ITEM

Demand antisemitic professors and clubs like Students for Justice in Palestine be kicked off campus.

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The Problem With Antisemitism On College Campuses Stems From Where Jews And Arabs Focused Their Donations

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A number of high-level individuals have recently taken aim at their alma maters for the toxic environment that exists for Jewish and Zionist students on campus.

They are very late to the party.

Jewish Philanthropists Donating To Humanities

For many years, billionaires like Ron Perelman, Bill Ackman and Marc Rowan donated tens of millions of dollars for health care facilities, art centers, humanities and economic studies at Harvard, University of Pennsylvania, Brown University and others. Yet they seldom put any money into Israel or Jewish Studies programs at these institutions, assuming all was fine and the schools they attended decades earlier remained much the same.

Now, as noxious antisemitism has reached a boiling point as campuses host “Resistance” rallies in support of Palestinians slaughtering Jewish civilians, these philanthropists have suddenly recalled the Jewish and Zionist part of their humanity programs.

Marc Rowan called on alumni to stop donating to the University of Pennsylvania after the school hosted an anti-Zionist and anti-Semitic “literary festival.” He said that the heads of the university should step down for failing to stop the tidal wave of hatred at his beloved school.

Bill Ackman asked Harvard to publish the names of people who said they supported Hamas’s actions of “resistance,” so that financial firms would not hire them upon graduation.

These billionaires, who made fortunes in the business world by investing intelligently and properly predicting the future, utterly failed to understand universities today.

Billions from Muslim Countries For Muslim Studies

The Saudi Arabian government, corporations and particular individuals gave $600 million to several universities between 2011 and 2017 according to The Project On Government Oversight. MIT alone took in $78 million. George Washington University, Columbia University, Tufts University, and the University of Southern California each took $1 million or more.

According to POGO, “the largest foreign funder by far is Qatar, the only country to give over $1 billion in the seven years covered by the Higher Education Act data.” Qatar is a principal funder of the political-terrorist group Hamas which committed the heinous massacre of over 1,000 people in Israel this week, which finally made the Jewish billionaires pay attention to the campus problem.

POGO added that “Harvard University received by far the most foreign money in the period, reporting just over $1 billion from over 60 countries. In addition to Harvard, MIT, Johns Hopkins University, Georgetown University, and Northwestern University are among the schools that reported receiving the most foreign gifts, each totaling over $300 million.”

Harvard students after Hamas’s jihadi massacre
Harvard editorial of 2022 supporting boycott of Israel

The foreign donations take several forms, each of which embeds foreign culture into the universities’ campuses, and ultimately into the country.

Some international money was used to establish university branches in foreign countries. These centers enable U.S. students to study abroad and become more familiar with autocratic regimes in a friendly college environment.

Arab states funded Islamic Studies and Middle Eastern studies departments on U.S. campuses like the president of the United Arab Emirates, Sheik Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahyan, who donated $2.5 million to the Harvard Divinity School to endow the Sheik Zayed Al Nahyan Professorship in Islamic Religious Studies. Within a short period of time, the Zayed Center became a noxious fountain of anti-Semitic screed complete with Holocaust denials and blood libels.

Significantly, millions of dollars from Arab countries have funded student scholarships for thousands of Muslim students to come to the U.S. to study. During the Obama Administration, tens of thousands of students from Arab countries were present at universities, a number which began to decline significantly under the Trump Administration.

The presence of thousands of foreign students and Muslim teachers taking over Middle Eastern Studies Departments created a toxic brew. Students were able to petition universities to open chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) with a faculty adviser, which were conveniently now present and paid for. The AMCHA Initiative showed that schools with five or more academic advisers favoring boycotting Israel “were 7.24 times more likely” to issue anti-Israel statements than schools with fewer than five advisors. Further, AMCHA Reports “analyzing antisemitic incidents in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 indicate a significant increase in actions which directly harm or threaten Jewish students, including physical and verbal assaults, destruction of property, harassment discrimination and suppression of speech, at schools with an SJP or similar anti-Zionist chapter.”

In short, Gulf states spent billions of dollars over decades at American universities building an anti-Zionist and antisemitic infrastructure, while Jewish philanthropists had ribbon cutting ceremonies on general intellectual matters. The Jewish billionaires are waking up too late to their poor investments, when the anti-Zionist and antisemitic culture on campuses is deeply ingrained and universities are highly addicted to the stable flow of Islamic money.

While Rowan and Ackman may make a lot of noise about getting alumni to stop donating to these schools, they should put at least as much effort to get universities to stop taking money from autocratic, anti-democratic regimes which are poisoning the minds of America’s future and making schools inhospitable for Jews.

ACTION ITEM

Donate to Yeshiva University, a proud Jewish and Zionist university

Donate to StandWithUs, as they fight for Jews on other college campuses

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The United States Is “Morally, Historically, and Politically Wrong” About Jewish Prayer on Temple Mount

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The antisemites of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan continued their evil ways in condemning Jews visiting their holiest location on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, even during the Jewish pilgrimage holiday of Sukkot. The Jordanian foreign minister “denounced the continuous break-ins by Israeli settlers [meaning Jews] at Al Aqsa Mosque” and “that the 144-dunum Al Aqsa Mosque is solely an Islamic holy site” and is completely off-limits to Jews.

This false narrative was inserted by Muslim and Arab nations into the United Nations which has subsequently used it for decades.

United Nations map showing the 1949 Armistice Lines between Israel and Jordan through Jerusalem and highlighting the “principal holy places”

As seen in the United Nations’ map above, the The Temple Mount (in red dotted lines) is not marked correctly as a Jewish holy site. The “Haram esh-Sharif (Mosque of Omar and Mosque of Aksa” is only listed as a Moslem holy place, a deliberate insult to global Jewry.

The United States has sometimes taken offense at the erasure of Jewish heritage in Jerusalem. In response to a United Nations vote on Jerusalem in December 2021, Ambassador Richard Erdman, Area Advisor for Near Eastern Affairs issued a statement: “I want to highlight one specific issue of serious concern, which is the reference to the holy sites in the Jerusalem text. The text only references “Haram al-Sharif,” rather than “Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount,” which is agreed terminology that recognizes the shared and diverse history of the holy site. The omission of this inclusive terminology is of real and sincere concern. It is morally, historically, and politically wrong for the members of this body to support language that denies both the Jewish and Muslim connections to the Temple Mount and Haram al-Sharif.“

Yet despite condemning the lack of LANGUAGE showing Jewish connection to the Temple Mount, the United States supports antisemitic ACTIONS against Jews praying at their holiest site.

On September 28, 2023, Linda Thomas-Greenfield said “I also want to reiterate that the United States firmly supports the preservation of the historic status quo with respect to the holy sites in Jerusalem [banning Jewish prayer on the Temple Mount]. And we oppose actions that depart from the historic status quo, or otherwise disturb the sanctity of these sites. Such action is unacceptable.”

It is a disgrace that the United States can acknowledge the centrality of the Temple Mount to Jews and Judaism, while simultaneously supporting banning Jews from praying at the site. The United States is aligning with antisemites on the wrong side of history, supporting outright discrimination in a Muslim religious war against Jews.

Why is the Biden Administration so determined to spread anger, division and hate? Why is it supporting policies in which Jews are targeted for attack at their holy site? To gain support against the Iranian nuclear weapons program or lowering the price of gas a few cents?

It is past time for decent governments to support an honest telling of history and abolish the inequity Jews continue to face in Jerusalem.

ACTION ITEM

EMail Senator Gillibrand “It is a disgrace that the US can acknowledge the centrality of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem for Jews yet support banning Jewish prayer at their holiest site.”

EMail Senator Schumer

Email White House

It is a disgrace that the US can acknowledge the centrality of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem for jews yet support banning Jewish prayer at their holiest site.

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Bowman Defends Pulling Fire Alarm By Calling Republicans “Nazis”

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Disgraced Congressman Jamaal Bowman (D-NY16) has now admitted to pulling a fire alarm in the halls of congress. Fearing that his apology would be viewed as insufficient, he has instructed his staff to defend his actions by redirecting the question towards Republicans which he calls “Nazis“.

Memo from Bowman’s office directs staffers to call Republicans “Nazis” if asked about the congressman pulling a fire alarm

The internal memo specifically calls on staffers to swear loyalty to the radical congressman and say “I believe Congressman Bowman when he says this was an accident. Republicans need to instead focus their energy on the Nazi members of their party before anything else.”

What kind of inanity is this? It makes a mockery of the entire concept of an apology to hurl insults at the other political party and minimizing the Holocaust as simple fodder for political cover.

It is insufficient for Bowman to only apologize to fellow politicians for causing a dangerous situation in congress; he must ask forgiveness from the entire country for trivializing the genocide of Jews as a red herring to conceal his own stupidity.

ACTION ITEM

EMail Senator Gillibrand “Condemn Rep. Jamaal Bowman for using the Holocaust as a shield for his own stupidity.”

EMail Senator Schumer

Email Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY15)

Email Rep. Michael Lawler (R-NY17)

It is insufficient for Bowman to only apologize to fellow politicians for causing a dangerous situation in Congress. He must ask forgiveness from the entire country for trivializing the genocide of Jews to conceal his own stupidity

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For The Sins Of 5783…

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For the sin of negotiating with terrorists;

For the sin of not criticizing an ally because I was desperate for their support on other matters;

For the sin of staying in organizations that despise me and my values;

For the sin of not clearly condemning Holocaust deniers;

For the sin of not doing more to oust radical anti-Zionist politicians; 

For the sin of not doing more to oust radical anti-Semitic politicians;

For the sin of ignoring vile of antisemitism fostered by minority groups; 

For the sin of allowing a noxious political party to grow and gain power;

For the sin of not writing Congress to condemn the United Nations ignoring the use of children as soldiers

For the sin of not writing to the media which falsely portrays Palestinians as seeking peace rather than the fact they are longing to murder Jews;

For the sin of donating to groups that foster terrorism against Jews;

For the sin of not lobbying to shut down UNRWA;

For the sin of not internalizing the ‘Settler Intifada‘ resisting Arab terrorism in the proportionate manner suggested by the UN;

For the sin of not speaking truthfully about counter-terrorism;

For the sin of ignoring the growing threat from a ‘Global Intifada’;

For the sin of giving platforms to anti-Semites;

For the sin of visiting countries that continue to vote against Israel;

For the sin of equating Muslims and al Aqsa Mosque with Jews and the Jewish Temple Mount;

For the sin of not loudly calling out antisemitism in all of its manifestations;

For the sin of paying for antisemitic media;

For the sin of not protesting the ban on Jews praying on the Temple Mount; 

For the sin of excluding Jews from diversity programs and victims of preference;

For the sin of fratricide, killing and excommunicating a fellow Jew;

For the sin of ignoring the horrible spike of Palestinians killing Israelis;

For the sin of allowing violence to reap rewards;

For the sin of treating racism and antisemitism differently;

For the sin of not putting oneself in Israel’s shoes;

For the sin of ignoring the ties between antisemitism and anti-Zionism;

For the sin of fumbling activities of Israel and the diaspora;

For the sin of collaborating with The New York Times in attacking Hasidic schools;

For the sin of equating Jewish connection with Israel to migrants entering the U.S.;

For the sin of equating the fear of Jews going to pray and Muslims going to pray;

For these things related to the Jewish world, please pardon us

For letting my shaymos pile up unceremoniously;

For swiping a machzor from the shul and not returning it on time;

For missing tashlich because of the rain;

For enjoying warm vacation weather and beach, instead of feeling like I left Egypt on Passover;

For eating in a non-kosher restaurant with clients eating only lettuce and telling them I wasn’t hungry, rather than state I only eat kosher;

For swearing off any additional COVID shots without a bli neder, when I have no idea about the future

For these sins related to my faith, please pardon us

For being so slow in Whatsapp tehillim groups, and repeating a chapter already claimed, disrupting the flow;

For comparing my state-of-hair to those my age;

For telling people I no longer drink alcohol, while they are enjoying a drink;

For the sin of posting too many pictures on vacation;

For rubber necking transgender people;

For abruptly ceasing casual shabbat shalom kisses in synagogue without explaining the reason;

For taking off extra days from the office when getting covid the third time;

For not helping enough people in their job searches;

For speculating why a couple I only know casually filed for divorce;

For not including everyone, especially the younger people, in shabbat lunch conversations;

For these sins related to community, please pardon us

For typing @everyone on Facebook;

For connecting to people I don’t know on LinkedIn;

For trolling people whose political views I disagree with;

For posting pictures on Instagram with a fish face;

For these sins related to social media, please pardon us

For lying to my spouse about my weight;

For checking out my ex’s social media;

For never kissing my mother-in-law;

For spending time in bed on my cellphone rather than with my spouse;

For these sins related to family, please pardon us

For playing with the latest AI in a non-PG way;

For putting halavah in the refrigerator;

For binge-snacking when the spouse leaves the room;

For not exercising enough;

For wasting money buying the latest iPhone;

For standing in a line outside to buy… anything;

For talking to too many people, for talking to too few;

For doing too much, for doing too little;

For all these things, please pardon us

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Notable Quotes:

“In this world so distrustful of information, lesson plans are built on emotions, and nothing rings the register and feels so familiar as the touchstone of Jew bashing.“