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Jun 6, 2025, 6:53 PM

Antisemitism Needs No Reason — Only Opportunity

Pro-Palestinian sentiment grows in Canada (Image generated by AI)

The recent announcement by Canada that it is launching a criminal investigation against Israeli officials for alleged “war crimes” has sent shockwaves through pro-Israel communities worldwide. For many, this felt like a diplomatic earthquake—another brick removed from the once-solid...

Jun 6, 2025, 3:08 PM

From Clicks to Chaos: Internet Burnout and the Rise of the Mob Mind

Once hailed as the greatest human innovation since the printing press, the internet was supposed to connect the world, democratize information, and spark creativity. In its early years, it largely fulfilled that promise. Commerce expanded. Education became global. Whole...

Jun 6, 2025, 2:27 PM

A pro-divestment movement takes shape on Canadian university campuses

On May 8, 2025, the University of Toronto Faculty Association (UTFA), which represents professors and librarians at one of the largest universities in North America, adopted a resolution proposed by an anonymous group of its members that calls on...

Jun 5, 2025, 7:26 AM

Sudan burns, Syria bleeds – but campus rage fixates on Israel

There are enough tyrannical regimes and humanitarian crises in the world to keep college students busy, but foreign funding is turning them against Israel instead

Jun 4, 2025, 8:00 AM

Failing our Jewish Youth in Discussing the war in Gaza.

I love the holiday of Shavuot, the festival commemorating the giving of the Torah, where we engage in all-night Torah study, Tikun Leil Shavuot. My wife and I usually attend classes both in our synagogue as well as at...

Jun 3, 2025, 11:23 PM

Pillars of Intolerance: The Student Government Crisis at UC San Diego

The recent UC San Diego student government elections have left many students uneasy, not because of voter turnout or procedural flaws, but because of who won, and why. All winning candidates came from a single slate: PILLARS. While their campaigns...

May 22, 2025, 3:55 PM

March of the Living exposes some hard truths

I recently participated in the March of the Living, a journey of remembrance and reflection that takes thousands of Jews and others on the walk from Auschwitz to Birkenau. Marching alongside survivors, rabbis, teenagers, and dignitaries, I expected grief...

May 21, 2025, 9:54 PM

The United States is exceptional but no exception

When a horde of masked protesters wearing keffiyehs barge into a school library brandishing anti-Israel signs with “Genocide” and Apartheid” scrawled on them, while shouting “Free Palestine” that is not protected speech, it is intimidation. When Jewish students are...

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Apr 30, 2025, 9:46 PM

Anti-Muslim Hate and Antisemitism Rise Together

Anti-Muslim hate in the UK surged to record levels last year, an organization tracking all Islamophobia has found. Almost 6,000 reports to Tell Mama were confirmed by it as anti-Muslim incidents, more than double the number two years ago,...

Apr 27, 2025, 5:41 PM

Without Action the Amsterdam Apologies to Jews Are Just Another Betrayal

“The Amsterdam government was, when it mattered most, not courageous, not decisive, and not compassionate. It horribly abandoned its Jewish residents.” On Yom HaShoah, Amsterdam’s mayor Femke Halsema made history with this moving apology for the city’s role in the...

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