The leader of Germany\’s main opposition party acknowledged that he may have gone too far when he wrote on Facebook that Israel is running an \”apartheid regime\” in Hebron.
Germany\’s Progressive Jewish seminary has given its highest honor to a former anti-apartheid activist with roots in Berlin.
Arthur Goldreich, an anti-apartheid struggle activist, was honored posthumously by the South African Jewish Board of Deputies during its national conference in Johannesburg.
Every year, Jews around the world tell the story of the Israelites’ liberation from slavery in roughly the same way. And every year, familiar props help bring that story to life.
An African American students group took out ads in college newspapers blasting \”Israel Apartheid week\” organizers for abusing the term. In a full page entitled \”words matter\” and appearing in the newspapers on April 7, Vanguard Leadership Group accuses Students for Justice in Palestine of a \”false and deeply offensive\” characterization of Israel.
Three African countries issued a set of commemorative postal sheets remembering famous Jews who fought apartheid in South Africa. Liberia, Sierra Leone and Gambia issued the three black-and-white postal stamp sheets at the beginning of March.
The South African government has compared new Israeli military restrictions on the movement of Palestinians in the West Bank to apartheid pass laws.
Few words have the power to upset individuals and corrode a conversation more than the N-word. Its very use short-circuits rational discourse. Thrown around with frequency in certain circles, the N-word provokes and torments, gaining totemic power with each use. The N-word I refer to is, of course, \”Nazi.\”
The decision by the L.A. County Commission on Human Relations to give its John Allen Buggs Humanitarian Award to Muslim leader Dr. Maher Hathout and the vitriolic rhetoric from a segment of the Jewish community.
Last week, delegates to the Presbyterian Church USA\’s (PCUSA) General Assembly in Birmingham, Ala., voted to undo their hateful 2004 anti-Israel divestment resolution.
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