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Jan 7, 2025, 3:39 AM

“Settler Colonialism” is Not Just About Israel

There has been much written about the ideological underpinnings over the years which led to the hostility to Israel and Jews on many campuses after October 7. Seeing the world as divided between oppressors and oppressed, with Western countries falling...

Dec 19, 2024, 11:27 PM

The Road Ahead for Syria: Lessons from Iran, Turkey and Egypt

Understandably, there is much speculation about the future of Syria following the revolt that toppled the authoritarian and brutal 50-year dictatorship of the Assad family. There is a wide range of emotions, from the joy of the Syrian people...

Dec 12, 2024, 6:54 AM

How Anti-Western Education Excuses Antisemitism

As we witness for more than a year the surge of antisemitism on university campuses across the United States, what is so startling about it is that despite the existence of anti-Zionist views on many campuses for decades, most...

Aug 16, 2024, 5:33 PM

Not your grandma’s Democratic Convention

A protester stands in front of a row of National Guard soldiers, across the street from the Hilton Hotel at Grant Park, at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, August 26, 1968. (Warren K. Leffler, PD via Wikimedia)

Unlike today's pro-Palestinian activists, protesters at the 1968 DNC in Chicago didn't target an entire community of US citizens

Aug 3, 2024, 4:44 PM

Francesca Albanese, shame on you

It is highly disturbing, though not surprising, that UN Rapporteur on the Palestinian issue, Francesca Albanese, recently compared Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Adolf Hitler. This extreme offensiveness by an official UN representative should disqualify her from her job. In...

Jul 17, 2024, 11:01 PM

30 years after AMIA, the Iranian threat remains

People hold up pictures of people who died during the bombing at the AMIA Jewish center that killed 85 people, on the 25th anniversary of the attack in Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 18, 2019. (AP Photo/ Natacha Pisarenko)

The world's apathy after Argentina and now October 7 is the same inaction against the Islamic Republic's advancing nuclear capabilities. How does this end well?

Jul 12, 2024, 5:30 PM

Hezbollah and the international community’s silence

Displaced Lebanese who returned to their village to attend the funeral of a Hezbollah fighter killed in an Israeli strike in the southern Lebanese village of Meis al-Jabal, try to salvage some belongings from the rubble of their home on May 15, 2024 (AFP)

Somehow, the world only started caring about displaced citizens when they weren’t just from Israel

Jun 24, 2024, 3:26 AM

When it Comes to Hatred of Jews, the End of Shame

Often referred to as the oldest hatred, antisemitism traces back to the pre-Christian era. This enduring animosity escalated thereafter, becoming deeply embedded in Western life for millennia. Reaching its nadir in the murder of six million Jews by the Nazis,...

Jun 7, 2024, 7:55 PM

What Accounts for the Rise in Antisemitism and Anti-Israel Sentiment?

As demonstrations, violence and hate against Israel and Jews spread around the country, we must ask: how did we arrive at such a moment when it was thought until recently that Jewish life in America was the best and...

Jun 2, 2024, 8:49 AM

The Things Not Being Said at Protests

In assessing the many anti-Israel demonstrations across the country, there is much focus, understandably, on the hateful themes, including chants of “from the river to the sea,” “by any means necessary,” “we are Hamas,” and “genocidal Israel.” Still, as important...

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Kenneth Jacobson is Deputy National Director of the Anti-Defamation League.