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Jul 2, 2019, 1:05 PM

How BDS in Germany comes from a well of antisemitism

Reichstag building in Berlin, seat of the Bundestag (Jewish News)

As an on-campus Jewish representative and Israel advocate, I often hear from other student activists that BDS is not a campaign against the Jewish people, but rather the Israeli government and some prominent Israelis. If this is the case, then why are companies both big...

Jun 4, 2019, 1:29 PM

Turning back the tide on the minimisation of Jewish victimhood

Protesters wave Palestinian flags and hold placards during a pro-Palestinian demonstration in Paris, France, on August 2, 2014. Israel bombarded Gaza on Saturdayafter accusing Hamas of destroying a humanitarian ceasefire by capturing a soldier whom the Islamists say was probably killed in Israeli shelling. (Photo by Alain Apaydin/ABACAPRESS.COM via Jewish News)

Antonio Morera Antunes, the artist whose antisemitic caricature was published in the New York Times in April, had produced such grotesque images before: a cartoon from 1983, which pictured Israelis dressed as Nazis, with Magen David’s in place of the swastika, pointing their guns at...

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Natalia Gutman is a third-year Comparative Literature student at Queen Mary, and CAMERA on Campus UK Fellow and Coordinator.