What a Year it Was
September 5, 2002
Two years ago, American Jewry buzzed with talk of Jewish continuity and renaissance, and fretted over intermarriage and assimilation.
Michael J. Jordan
The Public Opinion War
May 2, 2002
Now the Middle East conflict is also playing out in the American street. For months, pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian groups have demonstrated with some regularity in New York and other cities nationwide.
‘We Knew We Had to Come’
April 18, 2002
It was 90 minutes into the community\’s largest public mobilization in 15 years, and Jews from around the country continued to stream toward the U.S. Capitol, clamoring to get into the pro-Israel rally.
Hate Israel, Not Jews
April 11, 2002
It was on full display last year at the global anti-racism conference in Durban, South Africa, but the \”demonization\” of Israel has reached a fever pitch during the past month with the surging death toll in the Middle East, say Jewish observers.
Even as Holocaust Remembrance Day is marked this week, anti-Israel critics worldwide increasingly are employing Nazi and Holocaust imagery and analogies to describe the Jewish state\’s behavior toward the Palestinians.
E.U., U.N. Want Their Say
April 4, 2002
U.N. and E.U. diplomats, at least in their public comments, appear less vitriolic about the string of lethal suicide bombings in Israel than the Israeli response to them and often seem to morally equate the two.
Bush Backed — Finally
October 11, 2001
With the launch of the U.S.-led war on terrorism, American Jewish leaders are rallying behind Washington.
Ideological Insults
September 13, 2001
As terror struck New York and Washington, D.C., Jewish activists were still recovering from the ideological bomb of a U.N. conference that lashed out at Israel as racist and apartheid.
Political Pot Boils Over
September 6, 2001
On a cool and drizzly night in this Indian Ocean port city, a vast white tent standing in the middle of a cricket field seemed to fit in with the circus atmosphere of the U.N. World Conference Against Racism, one Jewish observer said.
This was no regular circus that had come to town, however, but a viciously anti-Israel, anti-Jewish circus that had carried on all week and was about to reach its apex.
It got so bad on Monday, just halfway through the official governmental conference that began Aug. 31 and ends Sept. 7, that the United States and Israel recalled their delegations.
The U.S. delegation said it would not continue working in such a \”racist,\” anti-Semitic atmosphere.
Sharon: Criminal or Victim?
June 28, 2001
The accusation that Ariel Sharon is a war criminal — back on the public agenda with two court cases in Belgium and a damning BBC documentary — is the latest step in a campaign to discredit and delegitimize Israel, supporters of the Jewish state say.
A quick Internet search reveals a plethora of Arab and Muslim Web sites demanding that Sharon be \”brought to justice\” for the 1982 massacre of Palestinians by Lebanese Christians in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps.
UJC Launches Campaign
June 21, 2001
The umbrella of North American federations is set to unveil a multipronged, $4-million solidarity campaign titled \”Israel NOW — and Forever.\”
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