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Doctors fear the British Medical Associations annual meeting is becoming a vehicle for Jew hatred as union factions called for action against Israel.

Leaders from the Jewish medical community raised concerns about the hostile atmosphere at the unions conference hours before a woman was heckled on stage for saying she was a practising Jew.

Around 30, or one in 10 motions, which are policy proposals that doctors vote on and the union adopts if passed, had to be removed from debates on legal grounds because they related to the Israel and Palestine conflict, and risked being perceived as discriminatory, more specifically, anti-Semitic.

The words Israel or Israeli appeared 75 times in motions put forward by factions across the country to be debated at the meeting, which is hosted to discuss union policy and doctor and patient rights.

The unions London regional council submitted four identical calls for the BMA to boycott Israeli medical journals, conferences, and academic and commercial exchanges, claiming Israel is breaching human rights.

It proposed the BMA lobby the Government to stop supplying weapons to Israel and repeated accusations of the country committing systematic apartheid.

It said that Israels acts in Gaza could amount to genocide and Israel continues to occupy and oppress the Palestinian people and to use disproportionate and indiscriminate force against civilians.

Other regional divisions proposed funding and supplying medical supplies, humanitarian aid, training for doctors on both sides of the conflict, and an end to military aid to Israel.

The Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan vision asked the BMA to lobby the UK Government to recognise that there is no military solution to the conflicts in Palestine and call for the undoing of all illegal settler occupations in Palestine.

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Concerns have been raised about antisemitism at the British Medical Associations annual conference, after a Jewish doctor was heckled just hours after religious leaders warned the meeting, which took place on June 24, could become a vehicle for Jew hatred, The Telegraph reported on Monday.

Dr.Joanna Sutton-Klein, a Jewish A&E consultant, was heckled by at least two doctors who shouted shame at her after she said she was Jewish.

The BMA denounced the incident, calling it unacceptable and gave Dr. Sutton-Klein 15 seconds of extra speaking time as a result of the interruption, according to the Telegraph.

Union factions of the BMA have been calling for action against Israel, causing fear among the Jewish medical community, said The Telegraph.

According to the Telegraph, 30 motions (about 10% of total submissions) were related to the Israel-Palestine conflict and needed to be removed from proposed debates. Motions are policy proposals voted on by doctors at the conference, which become adopted if passed. For legal reasons, the motions were dismissed due to the risk of them being seen as discriminatory, more specifically, antisemitic.

There were 75 mentions of the words Israel or Israeli in motions put forward to be debated at the meeting, said The Telegraph.

Dr. Sutton-Klein reportedly opposed the decision to block debates on the conflict, saying arguments are essential. She cited the Jewish value of Machloket lShem Shamayim to argue that disagreements are valuable for the sake of a bigger cause.

The heckling incident came during her conference speech in which she disagreed with the dismissal of the motions: one of the justifications for the silencing of these motions was that they might be perceived as antisemitic so I want to stand up here today as a practising Jew to say there is nothing Jewish about the attempt to remove motions that you disagree with."

The unions London regional council also reportedly put forward four identical calls to the BMA for boycott of Israeli medical journals, conferences, and academic exchanges, on the claim that Israel has violated human rights and is committing genocide.

There were also requests for the BMA to lobby the government to stop supplying weapons to Israel due to claims that Israel commits systematic apartheid. One request for lobbying came from the Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan regional committee.

In the meeting, the doctors voted in favor of a motion that protects doctors from repercussions should they be involved in activism. Any doctor who is involved in activism will now not risk losing their license.

No doctor or medical student should ever be afraid to stand up for what they believe in, the BMA said.

Medical student Bethan Stanley, who voted in favor, said the motion would allow her to continue to protest over the war in Gaza, according to the BMA statement.

For me, and many of my colleagues, its because of our medical backgrounds that we feel so strongly that we have a duty to stand up and speak up against the ongoing atrocities in Palestine, she told the BMAs representative body.

Its because we care about protecting and saving human life that we cannot stay silent. Yet for so many medics, particularly those from ethnic minority and Muslim backgrounds, they have been or are being threatened with repercussions to their medical career for doing so.

The chairman of the Jewish Medical Association (JMA), Prof David R Katz, had previously stated that he felt Jewish doctors at the conference would encounter a mix of overt antisemitism, bullying, harassment and flag-waving activism, The Telegraph reported.

Katz also wrote that: JMA members including the small number still engaged actively within the BMA itself are deeply concerned that the meeting environment could become itself a vehicle for discrimination and Jew hatred.

BMA spokesperson said: The BMA takes extremely seriously behaviour which is discriminatory, racist or offensive in any way.

In this instance, one or two members chose to disrupt the speech by a Jewish doctor who was speaking out in defense of the Palestinian community in Gaza.

They continued by saying that the action was called out straight away, and was being investigated.

We have not been contacted directly by the Jewish Medical Association with regard to the specific points made in their letter, but nonetheless we are deeply sorry to learn of the contents and we will be making contact with them to discuss this further.

Community Security Trust, an organization that fights antisemitism in the UK, said the rise of anti-Jewish hate incidents in the medical profession has been particularly disturbing since the October 7 Hamas massacre.

The sphere of medicine in England has been faced with multiple accusations of antisemitism in recent months.

According to a BBC freedom of information request from the GMC, a body which regulates UK doctors, there were eight complaints of antisemitism by doctors between January and October 2023.

However, this rose to 60 complaints of antisemitic conduct against medical professionals in the four months after the Hamas attacks.

In March 2024, an investigation by the Jewish Chronicle found that a British-Palestinian doctor, Dr. Hassan Abu Sittah, who had just been elected as rector of the University of Glasgow, had praised terrorists, prompting fears for the safety of Jewish students.

The JC investigation found that the doctor had praised a terrorist in a newspaper article, sat beside terrorist hijacker Leila Khaled at a memorial and delivered a tearful eulogy to the founder of the PFLP, a group that was involved in the October 7 massacre.

The article penned by Dr. Abu Sittah for Hezbollah-affiliated Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar in 2018, featured a eulogy of Ahmad Jarrar, who planned the murder of father-of-six Rabbi Raziel Shevach in a shooting near Nablus.

In the piece, Abu Sittah called Jarrar a hero and spoke of The martyrdom of the resistance member Ahmed Nasr Jarrar, the hero of the Nablus operation, at the hands of the Zionist occupation army.

In a separate incident, a letter sent by the BMA chair of council to the government in January 2024 led to Jewish doctors canceling their membership to the association.

The letter accused Israel of disregarding international humanitarian law, but made no mention of hostages.

A Jewish consultant psychiatrist in London cancelled her BMA membership as a result of the letter. A Jewish News article quoted her as saying: I feel totally devastated and unsafe as a Jewish doctor working in the NHS. The BMAs statement dated 12/1/24 is entirely unilateral and biased against Israel, and I am disgusted that they couldnt bring themselves to mention anything about the 7th October Hamas massacre, torture and kidnapping of Israelis, Hamass use of Gaza hospitals as military bases, and their continued rocket fire and attacks against Israeli civilians.

In another Jewish News piece on October 16, 2023, a London doctor, whose relative was a victim of the Hamas October 7 attacks, was reportedly called a baby killer by another doctor in his hospital.

In March, a report by the telegraph said a doctor had been suspended after saying London would be better Jew free. Dr. Dimitrios Psaroudakis was investigated by the Health Secretary, Victoria Atkins, who was asked to take a tougher stance on extremism.

Complaints were made to the GMC about the President of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, Dr. Camilla Kingdon, who equated Israel to Hamas in a blog post ten days after October 7.

One act of barbarity cannot and must not justify a wider descent into barbarism, she wrote.

According to the GMC, 1,903 doctors identified as Jewish in 2023, amounting to 1% of total doctors in the UK.

There are 53,359 doctors in the UK who identify as Muslim, amounting to 17%.

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Several HasmoneanHigh School for Boys pupils were attacked at Belsize Park underground in an incident the police are treating as a hate crime.

At around 4pm on Monday officers were called to the tube station over reports that Jewish children had been assaulted.

The Community Security Trust said that while no one was seriously injured, the incident was,a threatening and distressing incident for those involved and a further example of the unacceptable levels of antisemitism in our country.

Speaking to the Jewish News, a mother of one of the victims said:They ran ahead of my son and kicked one of his friends to the ground. They were trying to push another kid onto the tracks. They got him as far the yellow line.

"Im not sure how he managed to get away. My son ran a few steps up to try and get help. They ran after him, he was elbowed in the cheek and he hit his head against the wall.

"They dislodged a tooth and shouted Get out of the city Jew!'

The mother added:The child who was being pushed was being taunted all the way from school and on the way to the tube.

"They followed him. My son is very shaken. He couldnt sleep last night. He said Its not fair. Why do they do this to us.

I feel that encapsulates what antisemitism feels like. Why? What have we done?

Reports circulating online that children had been pushed onto the train tracks were false, however, a Hasmonean staff member told the JC.

Claims on social media about the nature of the attack had been greatly exaggerated, they said, adding that the children areabsolutely fine now.

The school is currently speaking to the victims and the police to discover what happened.

The alleged offenders are believed to be a group of children from another school.

There will be an extra police presence in the area in response, theCSTsaid.

Theyadded: Our ongoing priority is to ensure that Jewish children can go about their daily lives free from harassment and anti-Jewish hatred.

In a statement, theBritish Transport Police said: Detectives are appealing for witnesses after an assault on a group of Jewish schoolchildren. The incident is being treated as a hate crime.

Enquiries are ongoing to identify the offenders who are believed to be a group of children from another school.

The CST recorded 4,103 antisemitic incidents in Britain in 2023 compared to just 1,662 the year before.

Following the October 7 attack, the charitys director of policy, Dave Rich, said: "Normally it's a great city to be Jewish, but right now a lot of Jewish Londoners are not feeling that way."

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I never thought about Palestine. I never thought about Palestinian people. I never thought of Palestine in the same way people in the U.S. dont think about Indigenous people, myself included.

Until 10 years ago, I believed what I was taught about Palestinians, which is the same rhetoric of dehumanization that is heard every day. I believed in Zionism. I was taught that the authenticity of my identity was rooted in Zionism. Admittedly, I always felt a sense of discomfort with it. I didnt know why, but I still chose to ignore it. I will always regret that.

In one of the weeks during Israels siege of Gaza in 2014, I was sitting in the car with my father. The radio station reported that Israel had bombed a school in Gaza and killed a dozen or so civilians. I worked up the courage to ask my father why they would bomb a school, knowing there were innocent people inside. He answered me, They (Hamas) hide in these buildings and use people as shields. I hesitantly asked my father again why Israel would bomb the school anyway. He became agitated and then said something to me that I never forgot. Its either them or us.

I realized that my father didnt care about dead Palestinians. I also realized that Id never cared about them either, and wondered why. I never asked myself, much less anyone else, what the Palestinians were resisting in the first place. I decided to look deeper.

When I made the decision to learn about Palestine, I thought, or perhaps I hoped, that it would be a confirmation of everything I was raised to believe. It wouldve been easier. Instead, I found myself watching interviews from Palestinians who were displaced in the Nakba (Catastrophe), which was the violent ethnic cleansing of 750,000 Palestinians by the Zionist army in 1948. Then, I watched interviews with Palestinians living in the Occupied West Bank and Gaza. I never understood what the West Bank was until that moment. I still remember how much my eyes hurt because I had been crying so much, but simultaneously forgot to blink for god knows how long.

From then on, Palestine became a part of me. I will be committed to its liberation for the rest of my life. However, in the journey of decolonizing my brain, I was also struggling with my identity. Then, I discovered the Jewish Anti-Zionist movement.

As it turns out, there is nothing more inherently Jewish than to be an anti-Zionist. Every major anti-Zionist figure and organization, from 1897 until now, has been composed of Jews. Socialist Revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg,The Jewish Labor Bund, Albert Einstein and one of the leaders of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising Marek Edelman were all anti-Zionist Jews. Jews made up a large portion of organizations like SNCC and the anti-apartheid resistance movement in South Africa.

In 2024, we have seen the largest resurgence of the Jewish Anti-Zionist movement since the 1930s and 40s. Organizations like Jewish Voice for Peace and the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (both of which I am a member) have stood beside Palestinians at the forefront of the protests over the last eight months, but have also been active for the past 15 plus years.

Historically, we have always been the ones who resisted imperialism and colonialism. And yes, Zionism is the very definition of colonialism.

Colonialism is not just invasion. Colonialism is erasure. Colonialism is theft. Zionists have convinced the world that Palestine isnt real and then stole every aspect of Palestinian culture and declared them to be their own, especially their cuisine and even the keffiyeh. They have convinced the world that Palestinians are just Arabs from Egypt and Syria who needed to be removed so the land could flourish. They convinced the world that the land was theirs to take as ordained by God. Sound familiar? Replace the word Zionists with Europeans. Then, replace the word Palestinian with Native Americans. There is no difference.

I am a Jew. I know of the massacres, expulsions, pogroms and the history of us living under the boot of imperialism and fascism. There is a generational trauma that I feel everyday. In that same breath, what gives us the right to take that same boot, paint it a different color, and step on the throat of Palestine? The answer is nothing.

Zionism hasnt just colonized Palestine; its colonized Judaism. The ironic thing about it is that Judaism, to a certain extent, recommends primacy as a sign of validity. Meaning what comes first is more valid than what comes later. Judaism existed before Zionism, and Palestine existed before the state of Israel.

I get asked a lot of questions, especially, Why do you care?

Her name was Naifa Riza al-Sawada. She was the 94-year-old matriarch of her family and was displaced in the Nakba. She developed Alzheimers, which prevented her from being able to speak, walk, or eat on her own. This past March, the Israeli Occupation Force (known as the Israeli Defense Force to everyone else) invaded her home and forced her family to abandon her. Two weeks later, her charred remains were found where her home once stood.

What if it were you? What if she was your mother or grandmother?

The fact is, this isnt about me. This is about Palestine and the future of humanity. Palestinian liberation isnt a threat to Jewish safety. It never was. I believe were seeing a turning of the tides, and we must hold strong. Never again is now.

Sam Blustein is an activist who was born, raised and still lives in Memphis. She has a masters degree in history and is an alumni of the University of Memphis. She has participated in holding and organizing teach-ins on Palestine and Gaza over the past nine months alongside other activists in the city and has been a part of social justice work for the past decade.

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Like all those who publish here, I too am a warrior and a wordsmith. I am driven by ideas. They rule my waking life. But some days are too hard.

Ive been writing about antisemitism and anti-Zionism rather intensely since 2000. Ive been covering Oct. 7 for nine months around the clock and only now am I thinking that I need a break. Are soldiers allowed to slow down while a war still rages on and threatens to become even larger and more consequential?

Yesterday, after delivering a lecture on this subject, I became unusually irritable. I think thatI may actually be somewhat traumatized by the non-stop Jew-hatred that has gone viral around the world. Its not only the jihad-like violent riots, violent demonstrations and violent campus encampments that have persisted all across the United States; its not only the sheer vulgarity and barbaric aggressiveness of jihadists, both here against Jews and in the Middle East against Israel; it is also the non-stop individual attacks on individual Jews, the boycotts of Israeli diplomats, academics, athletes, artists, singers, scientists. But especially, its those hotel and B&B clerks in Kyoto, in Sjenica and in Paris who, on their own, recently refused to honor reservations when they saw that the guests held Israeli passports.

This means that Irans army has expanded to include civilians everywhere, at any time, acting on their own, not just as part of a propagandized and orchestrated mob.

Yesterday, together with Prof. Amy Elman, I was privileged to deliver a lecture via Zoom to De Paul Universitys Law School. Our host, Prof. Steven Resnikoff, was very well informed and most respectful. He asked us to address the weaponization of sexual violence by Hamas on Oct. 7.

That subject. Ive written more than 30 articles about it, given interviews, delivered lectures and still the denials persist. Still the hostages remain in captivity undergoing torture. Still Israel is demonized for trying to rescue them.

Irans Hamas is ISIS on steroids. Hamas committed a pogrom meant to be viewed again and again. It showed Jews as victims, which has always functioned as incitement to genocide.For this reason, I do not think that showing any part of Oct. 7 is a good idea. The footage, the testimonies of eyewitnesses and survivors, best belong in a Jerusalem courtroom in an Eichmann-like trial.

Thats assuming Israel is finally willing to execute terrorists with blood on their hands.

For those who must know: Heres an excerpt of some of what I said that is new.

What happened on Oct. 7 was unspeakable, but it was not unique.

It was a pogrom but on steroids, one in which the assassins recorded and photographed themselves. Public gang rape, torture, murder are all part of a classic pogrom. Filming and disseminating it constitutes genocide pornography. (This point was made again and again by Prof. Elman).

The focus on only girls and women is too limited. Boys and men were also genitally mutilated, sexually tortured, kidnapped and murdered.

Rape was aways a spoil of war until it became a systematic weapon of war whose purpose was to ethnically cleanse a specific population. Only now is it considered a war crime.

Whats unique is the utter silence among Western feminists (who claim to care about violence against women) in response to Hamas/Irans sadistic violence against civilians in Israel, some of whom were neither Jews nor Israelis.

Whats unique is that, instead of the world having sympathy for the victims, the sight of Jewish blood unleashed global bloodlust for more Jewish blood.

I was not surprised by the great American feminist silence after Oct. 7. Ive been dealing with antisemitism/anti-Zionism on the left and among feminists since 1971. Ive written books and hundreds, maybe a thousand, articles on the subject.

Thus, I may have been among a handful of people not surprised by the feminist silence about Oct. 7 and the ongoing denial of this atrocity.

Such a silence has deep roots in the politically correct academic world.

You are either a victim or a victimizer; you are oppressed or you are an oppressor; you are colonized or you are a colonizer. Israel has been designated as the worlds chief oppressor and colonizer.

Some victims are more sacred than others. Men of color are more important than white men; Muslim men of color are even more important, unless theyve been killed by other Muslims. Then, their deaths do not matter. The murders of women of all colors matters even less.

In addition, there is the belief in multicultural relativismthat all cultures are equal; that there is no objective truth. Everything is relative, subjective; everyone is entitled to their own narrative.

Heres one reason my views are so different:

Most Western pro-Palestinian feminists, leftists and academics have never lived in a Muslim country or moved in Muslim circles or worked with Muslim dissidents as I do.

I wrote about this inAn American Bride in Kabul.

They have absolutely no knowledge of Islamic gender and religious apartheid; Islamic imperialism, Islamic colonialism, or Islamic conversion via the sword; no understanding that Muslims practiced anti-black slavery and sex slaveryand many still do.

DemonizingIsraelisas worse than the Nazis allows Europeans to continue the Holocaust against the Jews and feel that they are rendering themselves safe from radical Islamic hostilityby appeasing the Islamist Muslims who live in their midst. It is also a way of scapegoating Jews and Israel for the crimes of European and Muslim racism and colonialism.

Like so many, I had assumed that the worlds hatred and persecution of Jews had ended; that Jewish history would never again repeat itself.

I was wrong.

Itwas foolish to have thought that Jew-hatred would suddenly become extinct or that Israel would not remain under siege.

We must shed our illusionspermanently. We cannot expect that conditions will always improve, or that one country or another will always be a safe haven for Jews.

One cannot win a war of ideas if one refuses to fight it.

I will take a step back, take a breath or two and return to my frontline post.

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This is the list I wrote before packing up my life in Australia and moving to Israel and making Aliyah in 2016. A simple list with a clear objective, I wanted (and needed) to meet a Jewish woman to marry. Jewish lesbians are not a rarity and I did not have to pick Israel as my target destination. I am sure that Sydney, Melbourne or even New York would have presented me with various options for my search. However, meeting a gay, Jewish woman often comes with the woke salad of all the other liberal identities and political beliefs that dont digest well with me. For example, the pro-socialist, anti-capitalist agenda that is trending throughout university campuses at present. This socialist agenda happens to be anti-Israel and requires any Jew to denounce Israel and Zionism as oppressive and imperialist. This is not new and this is not something that I will do.

Israel was my chosen destination because after some ten years of university study and living in the Diaspora, I became tired of the anti-Israel sentiment growing in the West. My first Times of Israel blog post reads, It was common to hear flippant remarks that Israels biggest problem is Gaza and to boycott the state (Israel) to entice actionIn a time of growing anti-Israel sentiment coupled with news media bias and sensationalism it becomes increasingly difficult to continue to defend Israels right to exist and my own. I wrote this in November 2016 and not much has changed. These are the words of a young Jewish woman growing tired of being the only Jew amongst her friends and the only person defending the Jewish peoples right to exist in their ancestral homeland.

Having been in these liberal academic circles for ten years and conversing with the LGBTQIA+ groups, I found it hard to identify with anything they believed. First, being gay is not an identity it is a sexuality and who I sleep with has nothing to do with how I view the world, my values, my beliefs, nor my behavior. Kindness and empathy come from values and those values are Jewish values of Tikun Olam and You shall love your neighbour as yourself. No matter the extent of the conversation within LGBTQIA+ groups there was always the sticking point that being Jewish was somehow a little dirty. Even the Jewish gay people I knew who did adopt the anti-Zionist stance never quite fit in and never quite felt at home because essentially being Jewish does mean accepting the archaeological remnants of our ancestors, the temple in Jerusalem, the yearning to return to Zion that is written about throughout the Hebrew scriptures. It takes a significant amount of mental gymnastics to try to negate those elements of Jewish thought and to accuse Jews of being white, European, colonialists. My brain isnt that flexible.

There was no way I was going to bend on marrying someone who didnt support my Jewish identity and who didnt support Israel. This is why Israel became the destination of choice I needed to improve my odds in the Venn diagram of three small overlapping circles Jewish, Lesbian, Zionist.

I was lucky. Israel was the right destination and I did meet the very woman with whom I am spending the rest of my life. We met in Tel Aviv in 2017 during the biggest Pride parade in the Middle East; I stopped into a restaurant and there she was. Israel hasnt legalized gay marriage yet but it does recognize same-sex marriages from overseas. Moreover, Israel does recognize cohabitation between same-sex couples and recognizes same-sex unions. It was in fact the first country in Asia to do so. On February 14th 2018, just over six months after we met, my ideal woman and I became legally de-facto in Israel with equal rights to that of a married couple. When we returned to Australia, we married for the visa and then Israel recognized our marriage in return.

Its 2024 and I am raising Jewish children with a Jewish partner and I dont have to sacrifice my values or identity for the sake of fitting in with neo-Marxists who eat woke salad everyday. Instead, I feel lucky that the country my ancestors come from and the people who fought and continue to fight for its survival, will not only defend my right to exist but they will defend my right to exist however I want. Thats something to be proud of this Pride month.

Hava Mendelle is a Political Science Graduate from the University of Queensland, Australia, and has an interest in politics and identity. Her schooling and work have spanned four different continents and multiple cities from London to Tel Aviv, from New York to Sydney, and she experienced multiple Jewish communities. You can find more of Hava's writings at the Spectator Australia.

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Attacks on the Jewish state and the people committed to it are hardly new. However, a series of rants at School District of Philadelphia public meetings present a new twist on an old illness.

The latest effort to attack Jews is to shout the demand that the haters of Jews have the right to teach facts about a conflict halfway around the globe about which they know virtually nothing other than that they hate Zionism, hate what they think it stands for and are convinced that Jews are the personification of evil white America.

A ringside seat in this arena of blame and shame can be found at every recent SDP board meeting, during which speakers primarily current and former SDP teachers known as Educators for Palestine espouse passionate proclamations of facts about which no debate is to be permitted. These are facts like the claim that all Jews who believe that Israel has a right to exist as a Jewish state and the right to self-defense against existential threats, are despicable and violent racists cruelly advocating for the murder of innocent people of color.

This, of course, is the mantra of Hamas, the terrorist organization that butchered, incinerated and raped to death more than a thousand innocents in southern Israel on Oct. 7, but who now claim that Israel is the guilty party. According to the Hamas supporters lecturing at SDP board meetings since Oct. 7, anyone who disagrees with their narrative has no right to be heard in public schools and no right to complain to authorities about the harassment of their children. These Hamasists insist that Philly students must be indoctrinated with their smears and lies about Jews and that anyone who disagrees is a racist.

Philly Educators for Palestine monopolized virtually every speaker slot during the May 30 and June 6 SDP board hearings. They accused Philadelphias Jewish teachers, parents and students, and the SDP Jewish Family Association of being outside agitators from the right-wing. They handed out Marxist propaganda celebrating Ebrahim Raisi, the Butcher of Iran, at their rally preceding the board meeting. They demanded that the board acquiesce in their defiance of rules, procedure and order.

Parent and university professor Adeem Suhail invoked his status as an educator to justify his claim that the occupation of Palestine at the hands of the state of Israel has long been a textbook example of racist and violent settler-colonialism. Suhails distorted and mythical claims assume as fact that Jews have no connection to the land of Israel, never had a Temple there, were never exiled and never yearned to return and that all Jews are white oppressors.

Suhail insisted the school board allow our students and our teachers their right to learn and teach historical facts but he was talking about his facts, not the actual facts about the children of Israel or the land of Israel. He and his co-ideologues certainly dont want Philadelphia students to learn the facts about Hamas murderous terrorism; its taking and raping of hostages; its use of hospitals as military command centers; or its theft of billions of dollars in international aid to fund the purchase of weapons and the construction of military tunnels in which no Arab civilians are permitted shelter.

Promoting hatred between the citizens and students of Philadelphia, teacher Khalid Bilal charged that white supremacy drives Zionism even though most Israeli Jews are people of color. Even the anti-Israel United Nations conclusively rejected the Zionism is racism attack on Jewish liberation back in 1991.

Parent Ahmed Moor baselessly charged Jewish children and families of propagating a race war, stating, We cant have white women calling the police on children of color anymore.

Teacher Keziah Ridgeway of Northeast High School charged the district with becoming Florida because it dared to prohibit antisemitic words and images at school events. Ridgeway also repeatedly slammed a Jewish teacher by name, falsely accusing her of revealing confidential information about a student because, according to Ridgeway, the teacher allegedly shared on social media a school presentation that had already been seen by thousands and Ridgeway herself publicly posted. How confidential could that presentation be?

All of this antisemitic hatred is not only on display at SDP board meetings while the board remains silent throughout. The people espousing these lying rants want their hatred to become school district policy. They want to carve this hate into the curriculum and thus engrave it on the minds of Philadelphias children.

Here are some actual facts: Denying Jewish history, denying the deep connection between the children of Israel and the land of Israel, denying the Jewish commitment to Zion and denying the Jewish right to national liberation are all antisemitism because they are lies about Jews, lies about history and denials of the rights of Jews as Jews.

People understand that Holocaust denial is antisemitic. In the same way, denial of the grotesque Oct. 7 atrocities or justifying is also antisemitism. By all means, lets teach facts. We can start with those.

Lori Lowenthal Marcus is the legal director of the Deborah Project, a public interest law firm asserting and defending the civil rights of Jews in educational settings.

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Jew hate is pervasive in classrooms across campus, in student groups and online We are ostracized, mocked, harassed, assaulted and scapegoated because of our identities We have been attacked with sticks outside of our library. We have been surrounded by angry mobs and we have been threatened to Keep f**king running.

This is how Eden Yadegar recently described her ordeal as a junior at Columbia University to the Committee on Education and the Workforce of the U.S. House of Representatives, which is investigating antisemitism at Columbia and other U.S. higher education institutions.

The antisemitism crisis at U.S. universities, one marked by escalating safety risks, disruptions to teaching and learning, reputational harm, and donor alienation, reflects the serious consequences for universities when they fail to take timely and appropriate action against student protests that veer from free speech into hate speech.

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As this current firestorm subsides, and with summer now upon us, university leaders will be forced to reckon with how they allowed pro-Palestinian student demonstrations to reach a point that the White House has called blatantly antisemitic, unconscionable and dangerous. They will need to take steps both to restore order and to reconcile with Jewish community members.

That process should involve engaging directly with Jewish and Israeli students, faculty members and student groups to understand their lived experiences of this frenzy of anti-Jewish racism. These engagements should be part of a formal inquiry undertaken by every campus that comprehensively examines the causes of antisemitic incidents, the lapses in protecting Jewish students and faculty, and the development of robust strategies and tactics to promote Jewish inclusion and defend against future waves of anti-Jewish racism.

There will be a need to re-evaluate policies around student protests to ensure that such actions do not descend into violence and jeopardize the physical and psychological safety of Jewish students and faculty members and, indeed, all community members on campus, nor infringe on the rights of students to engage in what should be the primary university activitylearning.

Universities will need to take a closer look at the ways in which anti-Israel and anti-Jewish politics and agendas have infiltrated their institutions and take action relating to discriminatory narratives promulgated by professors in or outside the classroom, student groups that espouse and promote ethnic violence, and discrimination against Israeli researchers.

Investigations will need to be conducted into how funding from foreign governments has contributed to the fomenting of anti-Jewish hate. A recent report detailed how more than 200 U.S. universities have received $13billion in contributions from foreign governments, many of them authoritarian regimes such as the governments of Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. The report found that campuses that had received foreign funding experienced higher numbers of antisemitic incidents.

In keeping with the valued tradition of universities as places for the exchange of ideas and the pursuit of truth, postsecondary leaders should also seek ways to cultivate productive discussion and dialogue about Middle East conflicts that emphasize the inclusion of and respect for diverse viewpoints.

Diversity, equity and inclusion policies and programs at universities will need to be reconsidered and revised to recognize and address the needs of Jewish students and faculty members. As members of a historically persecuted group that once again finds itself vulnerable to bias, harassment and violence, Jews also deserve the DEI supports and protections that are afforded to other marginalized groups.

From a communications perspective, universities can take many steps to demonstrate their dedication to the rights and safety of Jewish and Israeli students. Public statements about their institutions values of inclusiveness and tolerance must explicitly indicate a firm rejection of anti-Jewish hatred and strong commitment to protecting the security of Jewish and Israeli community members. To maintain a safe and cooperative workplace, communicators must express these same sentiments in internal messaging to faculty and staff.

University communicators should also connect with Jewish student groups and Jewish employees to understand how they are experiencing this growing wave of ethnic hatred so that they can shape culturally sensitive communications.

It would also be useful for communicators to connect with Jewish and Israeli community organizations to better understand the complex history of antisemitism and how Jewish community members are experiencing this current wave of ethnic hatred. Engaging with groups such as the Anti-Defamation League and Jewish Federations of North America could help communicators guide their universities in their interactions with students, employees, donors, the public and other stakeholders. Such outreach efforts will also support communicators in developing robust protocols to deal with comments on their universitys social media posts that feature anti-Jewish misinformation or bias.

Finally, achieving true and meaningful reconciliation with Jewish community members will also require universities to engage with and support their institutions Jewish spiritual leaders. Together with interfaith and other spiritual leaders on campus, rabbis can play an important role in healing tribal divisions and promoting unity on campus, which has never felt more important in the higher education space.

Sharon Aschaiek is principal for Higher Ed Communications, which offers communication advising, writing and editing and project management services to colleges and universities.

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With everything thats happened on, and since, the horrific attack by Hamas terrorists on October 7 the day the world changed it has become painfully clear that Israels dependence on external factors for its security grows increasingly precarious.

It is a vulnerability that underscores an urgent need for Israel to chart a course toward true independence, both in terms of defense and in fulfilling the destiny of the Jewish people in our ancestral homeland.

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant is currently meeting with members of the Biden administration in Washington to, in his words, come to an agreement on Israels next steps in this war. This is the same administration that consistently pressured Israel to appease Hamass demands for a ceasefire; pressured Israel by withholding weapons shipments; and tried to pressure Israel not to send IDF forces into the Hamas stranglehold of Rafah.

Why should Israel find itself beholden to an ally that is not truly interested in our own self-defense, that wont allow us to do whatever it takes to defend our borders and our citizens?

The time has come for the Jewish people to insist on a forward-looking road map that extends far beyond the immediate aftermath of the current conflict, one that secures a thriving future. Central to this vision is an embrace and acceptance of a politically incorrect truth that the Jewish people have an ancestral identity and an unbreakable connection to the Land of Israel. Additionally, we can no longer shy away from confronting the Jew-hatred that fuels the Palestinian national movement.

Its time to reclaim our authentic Jewish identity, proudly assert our rightful place in our ancestral homeland, and call out the true impostors and occupiers.

It is imperative beyond fighting a war on the home front that we wage war on the scourge of antisemitism that has openly reared its ugly head in every corner of the world. Its time to create the next generation of proud Jews by building resilience, and instilling within them a deep understanding of what it means to be a Jew.

Looking ahead and to quote Rachel Goldberg-Polin, mother of hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin Hope is mandatory. We must offer a vision based on optimism and hope to Israeli citizens and global Jewry, that transcends immediate security concerns, and encompasses the broader aspirations of our people to live freely and proudly in our ancestral homeland.

While day after plans are crucial for addressing immediate security challenges, they fall short of providing a comprehensive and inspiring road map for Israels long-term future.

Whats next for Israel will be discussed by several leading international voices at Pulse of Israels annual conference in Jerusalem next week. The current war may not be winding down anytime soon, despite global pressure for a ceasefire. Yet with its myriad challenges, the future of the Jewish state is filled with much promise.

Its time to build consensus around a vision centered on optimism and confidence in our collective future. By reclaiming our deeply rooted connection to Israel, we can empower Jews worldwide to stand tall in the face of adversity.

When it comes to affirming our identity, we must not leave it to others not to elected officials or organizational leaders. Rather, it is up to us to confront antisemitism head-on and reinvigorate pride in our roots, and in who we are.

As we navigate these and other challenges, let us remember that the strength of the Jewish people lies in our unity and unwavering commitment to our shared destiny. It is time to end Israels precarious dependence on outsiders for security. We must remain steadfast in our commitment to reclaiming our authentic Jewish identity and fulfilling our purpose in our ancestral homeland.

The writer is the host of the Pulse of Israel daily video/podcast and the CEO of 12Tribe Films Foundation.

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The 4,782 documented instances of Jew-hatred in Germany in 20232,787 of which happened after Oct. 7represent an 80% increase over 2022, according to a report from the Federal Association of Departments for Research and Information Centers on Antisemitism.

On average, about 33 antisemitic incidents occurred per day in Germany from Oct. 7 until the end of the year, compared to a little more than seven daily from Jan. 1 to Oct. 7, 2023, according to the new data, released on Tuesday by the Bundesverband RIAS, which is funded by the German state.

Two-thirds of the instances that involved extreme violence, assaults and threats also took place after Oct. 7, per the study.

The antisemitic massacres and terrorist attacks in Israel motivate people in Germany to engage in antisemitic behavior, said Bianca Loy, research associate at the Bundesverband RIAS and co-author of the study. Many well-known antisemitic stereotypes have been updated and applied to the Hamas massacres, and the war in Israel and Gaza.

Owing to this, she added, violence against Jews has been justified, trivialized or denied.

Loy called the situation, in which many have to hide their Jewish identities, alarming and unacceptable.

The unprecedented rise in antisemitic incidents must be understood as a wake-up call, stated Benjamin Steinitz, managing director of the Bundesverband RIAS. The state has the responsibility to ensure that Jews can safely participate in civic life.

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