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May 22, 2025, 2:59 PM

Pretending to ‘Grapple with Genocide’: The Anti-Israel Fad in Academia

The University of Chicago hosted an event on Monday, April 21st, billed as “Grappling with Genocide”— organized by the Center for East European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, the Center for Latin American Studies, and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. (Image from the Pozen Family Center for Human Rights at The University of Chicago).

This article was co-authored by Rachel Suggs and Joachim Sciamma. The latest trend in academia has arrived. Universities across the United States and the Western world have begun hosting “academic conferences” of scholars, researchers, and career professionals to wax rhapsodic...

Sep 27, 2024, 7:53 PM

Why Holocaust education in the US failed

Antisemitism is unlike any other form of prejudice in that it is a disease not just of hatred, but of an altered and false reality.

I was born on a frosted November morning on Manhattan’s Upper East Side with a silver spoon in my mouth. Just before my first birthday, my family moved to the promised land of white suburbia, also known as southwest...

Aug 5, 2024, 8:37 AM

Hostage Poster Vandalism and Policing Jewish Grief

When I first saw a video on social media of a self-proclaimed “social justice activist” tearing down a poster publicizing the kidnapping of an Israeli civilian, I had a chilling sense of déjà vu. The woman’s eyes— looking over...

Jul 25, 2023, 2:11 PM

Israel Must Ratify a Constitution, Protests Prove

Israel needs a written constitution, and it needs one now. (AI)

Israel is witnessing an unprecedented national debate over the country’s democracy. The controversial reform to judicial review, proposed by the Minister of Justice earlier this year, would fundamentally transform the checks and balances of Israel’s government. Thus far, the...

Jul 4, 2022, 1:48 PM

The Right to Abortion: Israel’s Committee, America’s Court, and Due Process

Following the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe vs. Wade and thus stripping the constitutional protection of the right to abortion, Israel has updated its decades-long abortion approval process. Here is an overview of the history and protection of the...

Jul 3, 2022, 2:45 PM

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Ukrainian refugees and Israel’s ‘Jewish character’

Illustrative: Ukrainians who fled the fighting in Ukraine land at Ben Gurion Airport outside Tel Aviv on March 17, 2022. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

The attempt to put a strict quota on non-Jewish refugees is not only cruel – it directly contradicts the most important Jewish values

About Me

Rachel L. Suggs is an undergraduate student at the University of Chicago triple-majoring in Jewish Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, and Law Letters. She is an intern at the law firm Decker, Pex, Ofir & Co. in Jerusalem, Israel, which specializes in immigration law. In 2024, she became the first student from her University to win the Global Honors distinction exclusively for the study of Hebrew.