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November 1, 2019

Anti-Israel Activists Now See the Holocaust as a Topic Inherently Inimical to Them

“Nakba supercessionism.”

Last week, Harold Kasimow, a retired professor of religious studies, came to Benedictine University in Illinois to speak about his experiences surviving the Holocaust as a child. At his talk he was confronted by a member of the school’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) who wanted to know if he supported or condemned “the establishment of the Zionist Israeli state”; the student eventually walked out after he refused to give the answers she hoped for. Video of the incident has been making the rounds on social media. Jonathan Tobin comments:

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November 1, 2019

  1. Strategic Lessons for Israel from the Turkish Intervention in Syria

    Erdogan’s accidental favor to Putin.

  2. Anti-Israel Activists Now See the Holocaust as a Topic Inherently Inimical to Them

    “Nakba supercessionism.”

  3. Azerbaijan Commemorates Its Jewish War Hero

    Albert Agarunov.

  4. How Jewish Was Herod?

    His ancestry was questionable, but he may have kept kosher.

  5. How Iran Became a Home to Jewish Refugees from Soviet-Occupied Poland

    And the Land of Israel for Polish Gentiles.