Volume 13, Issue 65:
Wishing all of our Jewish readers a meaningful and an easy fast.
May 5781 be a Peaceful, Joyous, and Healthy Year.
--- Sarah Stern, Founder and President of EMET
Jump to: Middle East (#Middle East) Israel (#Israel) Anti-Semitism (#Anti-Semitism)
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** Systemic Anti-Semitism Taking Root in our Students’ Minds ([link removed])
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** By Sarah Stern / September 14th, 2020
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The summer of 2020 is officially over. It will always be remembered as the summer of COVID-19 and of a painful period of national introspection about race. I certainly can claim no expertise on the issue of race. However, after years of arduous study and advocacy on the issue of anti-Semitism and of bias in our nation’s school systems, I have to reach the unfortunate conclusion that there does exist systemic anti-Semitism throughout the United States, particularly in our nation’s universities.
For decades now, behind the ivory covered towers of our universities, there has been a well-documented bias against Israel and the United States, particularly in our nation’s Middle East Studies Programs, as is well documented in Martin Kramer’s seminal book, “Ivory Towers on Sand.” This has led to one-sided politicization of an entire discipline, where paltry propaganda has been substituted (at the taxpayer’s expense), for a good, well-rounded education.
This tendency has become even more pronounced, as of late, because of the phenomena of “cancel culture,” where there is an implicit rigid orthodoxy of “acceptable thought.” Our students are the real losers here. Today’s university experience is a far cry from John Stuart Mill’s description as “the marketplace of ideas.”
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** Upcoming Events
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EMET Webinar - Wednesday, September 30 | 12:00pm ED
Does the Warming of Relations Between Israel and Some of the Sunni States Symbolize an Evolution within Islam?
Featuring: Zuhdi Jasser, Founder and President, American Islamic Forum for Democracy,
and Hussein Aboubakr Mansour, Director of EMET’s Program for Emerging Democratic Voices from the Middle East
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Tuesday, September 29 | 7:00pm EDT
EMET is proud to co-sponsor an event with Gen Z Jews: Summit on Anti-Semitism
Featuring Bari Weiss
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** Israel
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** Arab allies should mean more to Israelis than airplanes ([link removed]) - Israel Hayom
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** Hamas, Fatah say agreement reached on Palestinian elections ([link removed]) - i24 News
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** Arab-Israeli progress seemed impossible. That's because of old assumptions. ([link removed]) - Washington Post
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** Honduras to move embassy to Jerusalem by end of year ([link removed]) - Jerusalem Post
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** Middle East
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** Saudi Royal Family Divides Over Potential Embrace of Israel ([link removed]) - Wall Street Journal
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** Armani Hotel Dubai to host first kosher restaurant in UAE ([link removed]) - JNS
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** US and UAE eye December goal to agree on F-35 deal - sources ([link removed]) - Jerusalem Post
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** Explosion in Hezbollah stronghold in southern Lebanon; cause unclear ([link removed]) - Washington Post
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** U.S. Increases Troop Presence in Syria As Russian and ISIS Threats Grow ([link removed]) - Free Beacon
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** Is Saudi Arabia about to go nuclear with China’s help? ([link removed]) - JNS
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** Angered by Arab-Israel ties, PA quits chairing Arab League sessions ([link removed]) - Jerusalem Post
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** Palestinian security forces arrest supporters of Abbas rival Dahlan ([link removed]) - Middle East Eye
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** Palestinian leadership is on a collision course with Arab countries ([link removed]) - Jerusalem Post
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** The French – Hezbollah romance continues ([link removed]) - Alma
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** Iran
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** 'Iran could have enough material for nuclear weapon by year's end' ([link removed]) - Israel Hayom
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** Trump executive order to enact sanctions on arms-sellers to Iran ([link removed]) - JNS
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** Trump Administration moves to head off any military sales to Iran ([link removed]) - Wall Street Journal
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** Venezuela and Iran Buck U.S. Sanctions Again to Export Crude ([link removed]) - Bloomberg
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** Iran To Fund The Fortification Of Syrian Air Defense ([link removed]) - Radio Farda
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** US sanctions Iran’s court system over execution of wrestler, other alleged abuses ([link removed]) - Fox News
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** U.S. imposes new Iran sanctions over human rights violations ([link removed]) - Reuters
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** Iran’s Revolutionary Guard opens new base on Hormuz Strait ([link removed]) - Bloomberg
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** Anti-Semitism
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** University of Illinois student government passes BDS measure for second time this year ([link removed]) - JNS
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** Nearly two-thirds of US young adults unaware 6m Jews killed in the Holocaust ([link removed]) - The Guardian
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** Zoom cancels Leila Khaled webinar at San Francisco State University ([link removed]) - Jerusalem Post
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** Ahead of BDS Vote on Campus, Columbia Student Paper Apologizes for Running ‘Deeply Inappropriate’ Pro-Israel Ad ([link removed]) - The Algemeiner
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