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Volume 14, Issue 55

“Using lies and social pressure to force students to disavow Israel is a strategy aimed at raising the psychic and professional cost of being Jewish.”
 
—Former Labor Party Knesset Member Einat Wilf
The Emotional Hold of Our Symbols

By Sarah N. Stern | May 13, 2022 | Published in JNS

The hold that symbols have over one’s identity, one’s core beliefs, one’s religion, one’s affiliation with a group, a tribe or a nation is incalculable. A friend of mine, a secular Jew who could very easily pass for a WASP, was recently physically attacked on four separate occasions in New York because he proudly wears a Jewish star around his neck.

Asked why he refuses to take it off, he replies, “because that is who I am.”

Nowhere does this play out stronger than within the 2.8 square miles encompassed by the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem. And nowhere is the emotional hold on this stronger than in the 1600 feet of the Temple Mount Complex, known to Muslims as “Harim al Sharif” and to Jews as “Har haBayit.”

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Richard L. Cravatts, Ph.D., author of six books, including Dispatches From the Campus War Against Israel and JewsJew Hatred Rising: The Perversities of the Campus War Against Israel & Jews, and Weaponizing Our Schools: Critical Race Theory and the Racist Assault on America’s Students, is President Emeritus of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME), an organization with 30,000 members worldwide.

As a professor of the past 15 years, he has taught over 21 courses at 14 universities in Florida and Massachusetts.

Dr. Cravatts has published over 550 articles and book chapters on campus anti-Semitism, the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, campus free speech, terrorism, Constitutional law, Middle East politics, and social policy in the Boston Globe, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun, American Thinker, Jewish Press, Human Events, Harvard Crimson, FrontPage Magazine, Times of Israel, and many others, and also gives speeches nationally on these topics and appears as a guest on radio shows.

In addition to serving as a member of the board of directors of The Brandeis Center, Dr. Cravatts is also a board member of The Journal for the Study of Antisemitism, SPME, The AMCHA Initiative, The Israel Group, Alliance for Israel, and the Florida chapter of the Zionist Organization of America, an advisory board member of the Endowment for Middle East Truth, the Abraham Global Peace Initiative, and The Gross Family Center for the Study of Antisemitism and the Holocaust, and a member of SPME’s Council of Scholars.

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