Twelve Jews died in Ethiopia this summer — two of famine, 10 of mostly treatable medical conditions — and Dick Giesberg wants to know what it says about the Zionist imperative when the Israeli government refuses to expedite the immigration of a suffering Jewish community.
Coming after conferences on anti-Semitism in New York, Amsterdam, Paris and Vienna, the book, \”A New Anti-Semitism? Debating Judeophobia in 21st-Century Britain,\” is something of a symposium unto itself.
What do the Kurds have to do with Holocaust? More than you might think.
We must speak out against anti-Semitism and other forms of racism and bigotry anywhere we encounter them, especially in our own peace and justice community. We cannot accept a peace movement leadership that excludes outspoken opponents of the war because they are also supporters of Israel.
Sadly, even though most Americans remain supportive of Israel, there is abundant evidence that in academia, opposition to Israel\’s policies has mutated into attacks that demonize the Jewish State, undermine its legitimacy and foment anti-Semitism. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) reports that \”campus anti-Semitic incidents were up dramatically in 2002.\”
Expressions of anti-Semitism through Holocaust imagery were so harsh in the Greek media and political circles at the time that Hronika, the official magazine of the Central Board of Greek Jewish Communities, spoke of a climate of \”hysteria and anti-Semitism\” that was masquerading as mere criticism of the State of Israel.
In his attempt to critique the Anti-Defamation League\’s (ADL) survey on anti-Semitism in America, our friend and former colleague David Lehrer has misinterpreted ADL\’s findings in three key ways (\”Don\’t Circle the Wagons,\” July 5).
If Israel\’s friends and diplomats have a harder time this week convincing the world that Israel is not a racist state, they have only their own government to blame.
Geneva and Ann Arbor, Mich., may be a world apart, but they now have something in common: both are settings for a reinvigorated effort to undercut the very legitimacy of Israel.
The same folks responsible for turning this summer\’s Durban conference on racism into an anti-Israel free-for-all are getting set for an encore performance in Geneva next week. And in college towns like Ann Arbor, Arab and Muslim student groups are using spurious comparisons with South Africa to discredit Israel.
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