LOS ANGELES, Aug. 19, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) welcomes and applauds the disavowal by the American Jewish Committee (AJC) of an opinion piece entitled "Anti-Semitism on Campus," written by Kenneth Stern of the AJC and Cary Nelson of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), published last April by the AAUP (http:// www.aaup.org/AAUP/about/pres/let/antisemitism.htm). The piece deals with the October 2010 announcement by the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) that Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, or national origin, in federally funded programs, could be construed to prohibit discrimination against Jewish students. The authors of t...
It is very rare to hear Muslim voices that set themselves apart from this kind of discourse and attitude. Often, one will try to explain away this phenomena being a result of extreme frustration and humiliation. That may be true, but one must be honest and analyze the situation deeply. Much like the situation across the Muslim world, there exists in the West today a discourse which is anti-Semitic, seeking legitimacy in certain Islamic texts and support in the present situation in Palestine. This is the attitude of not only marginalized youth, but also of intellectuals and Imams, who see the manipulative hand of the "Jewish lobby" at each turn or every political setback, The situation is far too serious for one to be satisfied by simple explanations based on current frustrations. In the...
Last year, when the notorious Daniel Pipes came to speak at the University of Michigan, there seemed to be a flurry of anti-Islamic activity occurring all over the place. The incidents below are just a random sampling of far right activities that have the perceived "Islamic threat" in common; its status as a political goldmine was recently demonstrated by the Clarion Fund's distribution of 28 million copies of "Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against The West. In February '07 The Associated Press reported that a representative from Kamil International Ministries Organization was invited to a North Carolina high school by a teacher to lecture his students about "the danger of Islam" and distribute literature. One pamphlet distributed was called "Do Not Marry a Muslim Man." That same mont...
...Islamophobia is the new antiSemitism. This is bound to cause some discomfort in certain...
Yet there is nothing "new" about this or about this alleged anti-Semitism that these mainstream Jewish voices seek to reveal. From the moment I started "Tikkun" twenty years ago as 'the liberal alternative to "Commentary" and the voices of Jewish conservatism and spiritual deadness in the organized Jewish community' our magazine has been attacked in much of the organized Jewish community as "self-hating Jews" (though our editorial advisory board contains some of the most creative Jewish theologians, rabbis, Israeli peace activists and committed fighters for social justice). The reason? We believe that Israeli policy toward Palestinians, manifested most dramatically in the occupation of the West Bank for what will soon be forty years and in the refusal of Israel to take any moral respons...
[...] the cheap comparison of the Caracas synagogue burglary with the Kristallnacht only trivializes one of the most horrific events of the last century. [...] by refusing to consult localjewish leaders or worse, by direcúy contradicting them - groups like the ADL and the Wiesenthal Center risk exacerbating the struggles of the communities they ostensibly represent. [...] accusing anyone of anti-Semitism without bothering to provide plausible evidence does more harm than good to the cause of fighting anti-Semitism.
... have followed a policy of antiSemitism or have persecuted Jews solely because of their re...
For several years, [Don Deane] has published editorial content critical of Israel, but when he ran an article by Israel Shamir last May, reaction ratcheted up more than a few notches. In the article, which was about former President Jimmy Carter's book that supports a two -state solution and harshly criticizes the Israeli position as a form of apartheid, Shamir invoked other writers who clearly are anti-Semitic. In referencing the writers, Shamir used terms such as "Jewish control of the [U.S.] government," and "Jewish control of the [U.S.] media." He also invoked what can only be called an anti-Semitic image of all Jews acting in concert "in a mass attack" against Carter. Shamir references other writers who descend into clearly anti-Semitic territory to advance his argument that Carter...
... support [ajournai that contains antiSemitism.]". And yet Barnett and others who believe as he d...
As we get further and further from the Holocaust, the constraints that kept anti-Semitism in check are loosening," says ADL National Director Abraham H. Foxman. "In numerous places around the world, we are hearing and seeing the kind of ugly anti-Semitism many of us thought we'd never see in our lifetimes. It is coming from many different directions - the far-left wing, the far-right wing, ordinary people hurt by the financial downturn and looking for scapegoats, European Muslims, editorial cartoons in the Arab world and the comment sections of mainstream Web sites and social networking sites. It's even in the United States - in the last few months, we've seen a series of murders fueled by anti-Semitism" (see p. 7). QATAR | APRIL 27, 2009: A cartoon published in Al-Watan showed a "post...
By now, most Americans have heard the story of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah many times, with its tale of a Greek king in ancient Syria (which included modern Israel) trying to eradicate the Jewish religion. He was thwarted by the guerilla warfare of the Maccabees, who liberated the ancient Temple in Jerusalem in the second century B.C. The story says they found enough oil to fuel the temple's ever- burning lamp just one night, but the small vial burned continuously for eight days until more was found, the reason Hanukkah lasts eight days and nights. But a
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