by The Jerusalem Connection | Mar 2, 2017 | anti-Semitism
By Nadiya Al-Noor, Times of Israel— Hating Israel is the thing to do today on university campuses. It makes you seem “progressive.” It means you’re “woke” and socially aware. It means you’re fighting against a tyrannical regime. It is supporting the struggle of...
by The Jerusalem Connection | Nov 3, 2016 | anti-Semitism
By Adam Milstein, JPOST— For thousands of years Jews have been targeted, persecuted and hated for a range of irrational and paradoxical reasons. We have been blamed for the crucifixion and killing of Jesus, even though Jesus was a Jew. We have been hated for...
by The Jerusalem Connection | Aug 26, 2016 | Boycott Divestment Sanction, Christian Left
By Wesley Pruden, Washington Times— The man who controls the language controls the conversation, as George Orwell rightly observed. The word that the left is trying, with a certain success, to appropriate now is “genocide.” Genocide is what Hitler set out to do,...
by The Jerusalem Connection | Aug 22, 2016 | anti-Semitism, Christian Left, Holocaust, Replacement theology
By Carla Brewington, Christian Post— In the 1930s in Germany, many caved to the dangerous political agenda of the time. They wanted power, peace, and prosperity, to reclaim their country from the ravages of World War I. Christians were no different. But in doing...
by The Jerusalem Connection | Aug 18, 2016 | Boycott Divestment Sanction
By Barney Breen-Portnoy, Algemeiner— Jewish students are the most persecuted minority on US college campuses, a representative of an Israeli advocacy group told lawmakers on Tuesday, during a meeting of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee held to...
by The Jerusalem Connection | Aug 16, 2016 | Boycott Divestment Sanction, Christian Left
By Jewish Telegraphic Agency— The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America approved a resolution calling on the US government to end all aid to Israel if Israel does not stop building settlements and “enable an independent Palestinian state.” Voting at its...
by The Jerusalem Connection | Aug 11, 2016 | Boycott Divestment Sanction
By Joel Golovensky, Jpost— On Thursday, the movement for Black Lives announced it would engage in BDS actions against Israel because, among other reasons, “Israel is an apartheid state with over 50 laws on the books that sanction discrimination against the...
by The Jerusalem Connection | Jun 10, 2016 | anti-Semitism, Biblical Israel, Boycott Divestment Sanction
BY OLIVIER MELNICK, New Antisemitism— There are several ways to look at Israel’s right to exist. Historically, Israel was reborn as a modern nation on May 14, 1948 when Ben Gurion declared statehood at Tel Aviv Independence Hall. This was the result of a...
by The Jerusalem Connection | Jun 2, 2016 | 2016, anti-Semitism, Boycott Divestment Sanction, Christian Left
By Michael Laitman, JPOST— We did not need Bernie Sanders’ pick of BDS backer and Israel basher, Cornel West, to partake in writing the Democratic platform, to know how he feels about Israel. Back in May of 1985, when Sanders was still mayor of Burlington, VT,...
