Tag: Antisemitsim

Knesset lobby convenes to discuss antisemitism by BDS, Palestinians

The Knesset lobby to combat antisemitism spread by the Boycott, Divestments and Sanctions (BDS) movement and the Palestinian Authority held a discussion on antisemitism to mark the International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Wednesday. The Center...

Melissa Landa: Fired for the Crime of Teaching While Jewish

Melissa Landa had been a popular teacher at the University of Maryland, College Park for ten years when it was decided that her contract would not be renewed. The reason? Landa had become too Jewish,...

SWC Hails overwhelming adoption of Israel’s UN resolution to fight holocaust denial and distortion

The Simon Wiesenthal Center today hailed the overwhelming adoption of Israel’s United Nations Resolution aimed at combating growing Holocaust denial and distortion around the world by governments and through social media.  The resolution, put forth by Israel’s Ambassador to...

Vigilante da Conferência de Doadores apela para responsabilizar a UNRWA pelos professores antissemitas

Um grupo de vigilância fez um apelo hoje em uma conferência internacional de doadores para a UNRWA, que administra escolas para palestinos, instando os governos na reunião de Bruxelas a exigir a responsabilização da agência...

Watchdog at Donor Conference Appeals to Hold UNRWA Accountable for Antisemitic Teachers

A watchdog group delivered an appeal today at an international donor conference for UNRWA, which runs schools for Palestinians, urging governments at the Brussels gathering to demand accountability from the agency about allegations of antisemitism and incitement to terrorism by more than 100 teachers...

Broken glass and shattered illusions

One would have imagined that the night of 9 November 1938 in Germany would have shattered forever any lingering illusions that one could appease Jew-hate by negotiations and reason. It was on Kristallnacht that any...

Statement on Sara Yael Hirschhorn as Panelist at Never Is Now

Statement on the inclusion of Dr. Sara Yael Hirschhorn as a panelist at the ADL 2021 Never Is Now Summit on Antisemitism and Hate. Dr. Hirschhorn's scholarship, teaching, and public engagement work, as well as an​y casual...

Until Messiah, forecast is cloudy skies with 100% chance of antisemitism

Many people assumed that antisemitism died with Hitler in his bunker in 1945. Alas, that was wishful thinking. In 2010, then US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke of the frustration of combatting antisemitism: “Forms...

Democrats from the US at war with Israel

Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) in his victorious campaign against incumbent Elliot Engle, Bowman, blasted Engel for his close relationship with Israel. In May 2021, he called for more restrictions on U.S. aid to Israel  Rep....

Murderers, Not Freedom Fighters

The name Samuel Milshevsky means nothing to Israelis. He was an ordinary man who immigrated to Israel from Estonia in 2001 and lived alone in a small apartment in Herzliya. In November 2002, a...