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Walkouts at U.S. Colleges Demand End to Aid for Israel, Include Support for Terror

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Walkouts at U.S. Colleges Demand End to Aid for Israel, Include Support for Terror
On Wednesday, October 25, 2023, students at more than 100 U.S. college campuses staged walkouts demanding an end to U.S. aid to Israel and that their institutions divest from weapons companies allegedly involved with Israel. The walkouts, prompted by Israel’s military response to Hamas’s October 7 massacre, were organized primarily by Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapters and several other student groups. Some events included language that both explicitly and implicitly…
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Symbol: Inverted Red Triangle

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Since the October 7, 2023 attack by Hamas against Israel, the inverted red triangle has, in many cases, come to signify support for violent Palestinian resistance against Israel and against Zionists and Jewish people more broadly. It is used both offline and online, sometimes in the form of an emoji (🔻), and has been spraypainted on Jewish homes and institutions, often alongside antisemitic and threatening slogans.     The symbol first appeared in propaganda videos from…
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EU Study Finds Massive Rise in Online Antisemitism During COVID Pandemic; Canada Truck Attack Targets Muslim Family, Killing Four

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June 11, 2021 THE WEEK’S BIG 3  Antisemitic incidents more than doubled in May compared to last year following Mideast violence, according to new data from ADL. Online antisemitism grew significantly during the pandemic, with COVID-19 ushering in “a new wave of antisemitic conspiracy theories and hate in Europe,” the European Commission said in a report issued last week. Four members of the same family were killed in a pickup truck attack in London, Ontario in what…
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The World’s Immoral, Deadly Silence on Hamas and Hezbollah

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by: Kenneth Jacobson The Times of Israel The current crisis in Israel is disturbing on many levels. While there’s nothing new about Hamas raining rockets down on Israeli civilian centers, the heightened levels of sophistication of the rockets, combined with the distressing outburst of inter-communal violence in Israeli cities have added to the stark challenges facing Israel as it moves into the second week of conflict with Hamas. Undoubtedly, the beginning of this current…
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Meyers Leonard fined and suspended for antisemitic slur; Israeli society increasingly divided; LGBTQ protections stripped from hate crimes bill

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March 12, 2021 THE WEEK’S BIG 3 Miami Heat center Meyers Leonard was fined $50,000, suspended from the team's facilities and banned from team activities after he uttered an antisemitic slur while playing video games. Israeli society is increasingly divided, with 81 percent of Israelis stating that they believe that their society is increasingly divided, a 12 percent increase since 2017, according to a new ADL. survey. A panel of South Carolina lawmakers stripped explicit protections…
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Extremists Support Protests Against COVID-19 Quarantine; Over Half of US Jews have Experienced or Seen Antisemitism, Survey Shows

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April 24, 2020 THE WEEK’S BIG 3A series of anti-quarantine rallies took place across the country this week, several of which were sponsored in whole or part by identified extremists and featured antisemitic content. A new ADL survey released on Holocaust Remembrance Day found that more than half of America’s Jews have either experienced or witnessed an antisemitic incident over the past five years. And Israel’s year-long political stalemate has come to an end, with the…
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Setting the Record Straight: Jewish Communal Response to Middle East Curriculum in Newton Schools

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July 23, 2019 By Robert Trestan and Jeremy Burton “Teaching High School Students to Demonize Israel” (Tablet, July 18) falsely portrays the Boston area’s two major mainstream Jewish community organizations’ role in a seven-year-old controversy regarding the Newton public school district’s use of the Arab World Studies Notebook and other materials in Newton North High School’s World History classes. Our organizations, ADL and JCRC, are in fact deeply…
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Frequently Asked Questions About Free Speech on Campus

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What is the source of our free speech rights? Free speech rights emanate from the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution[1] and from state constitutions. The U.S. Constitution limits the government’s ability to regulate speech based on content and it applies to all public colleges and universities. It serves as a floor, not a ceiling. State constitutions may grant more robust free speech rights than the U.S. Constitution, but never fewer. Is there a distinction between private and…
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