Author: Johanna Markind

Johanna Markind

Judge: Lawsuit Alleging ‘American Muslims For Palestine’ Is Successor To Terror-Linked Groups Can Go Forward

Posted by Johanna Markind on June 20, 2022 14 Comments

Defendants AMP and AJP must litigate plaintiffs’ complaint alleging they’re the "alter egos" of groups that helped Hamas murder their son....

Anti-Israel BDS Activists Map Out Target List of Jewish Community Leaders and Groups

Posted by Johanna Markind on June 16, 2022 12 Comments

Incitement to violence and stoking Antisemitism by blaming almost the entire Jewish community for the problems of non-whites in the U.S. and around the world....

Lawsuit Challenges Attempts to Inject “Liberated Ethnic Studies” Curriculum Into California Schools

Posted by Johanna Markind on June 12, 2022 7 Comments

LA teachers’ union allegedly is working covertly to sneak LESMCI curriculum into LA schools, while Castro Valley school district openly paid to push the anti-Israel and anti-Jewish agenda on its students....

Anti-Zionism As Poorly-Disguised Anti-Semitism, ADL Leader Finally Getting Serious

Posted by Johanna Markind on May 30, 2022 49 Comments

Jonathan Greenblatt, someone of whom we have been highly critical, finally is speaking out against leftwing anti-Zionism....

The Fight Against Progressive Anti-Semitism On Campus Needs To Shift From Defense To Offense

Posted by Johanna Markind on May 22, 2022 18 Comments

As our article in White Rose Magazine details, in the nearly 21 years since the Durban Conference, American Jewry’s alphabet soup of organizations has yet to counter campus anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism effectively....

87 Groups To U.S. Dept. Education: Middle East Studies Programs Boycotting Israel Shouldn’t Get Federal Funds

Posted by Johanna Markind on April 24, 2022 10 Comments

Letter joined in by Legal Insurrection Foundation: "it is unacceptable that federal funds could be used to implement an academic boycott that directly contravenes the purposes for which these funds have been granted"...

Breaking With Past, American Association of University Professors Refuses to Condemn Boycott of Israel By Middle East Studies Ass’n

Posted by Johanna Markind on April 06, 2022 10 Comments

For decades, AAUP has condemned academic boycotts, including boycotts of Israel. Reflecting AAUP’s increasing radicalism and anti-Israel hostility, the association will not offer a statement condemning MESA’s boycott, according to a spokeswoman....

Two-Thirds Of Palestinians Surveyed Support Violence, Ending Recognition of Israel

Posted by Johanna Markind on April 03, 2022 54 Comments

Study by Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research shows Palestinians want war, not peace....

Israel-Boycotting Middle East Studies Association Loses Another Institutional Member, Takes Down Membership List

Posted by Johanna Markind on March 31, 2022 2 Comments

Seven institutional members have left MESA due to the Israel boycott resolution, including Brandeis University: "The resolution attacks the fundamental principles of academic freedom and association...

Academic Ethnic Cleansing: Middle East Studies Association Signs Onto Boycott of Israel

Posted by Johanna Markind on March 24, 2022 9 Comments

MESA has been captured by activists bent on the destruction of Israel by any means possible....

Sen. Menendez “Deeply Disappointed” In Biden Admin Killing EastMed Pipeline From Israel to Europe

Posted by Johanna Markind on March 24, 2022 25 Comments

"Let’s support our allies, not our enemies"...

Breaking Up Is Hard to Do: Israeli Company Sues Ben & Jerry’s and Unilever To Maintain License

Posted by Johanna Markind on March 20, 2022 24 Comments

Licensee claims Ben & Jerry’s and its corporate owner broke their contract by conditioning license renewal on a boycott that violates American and Israeli law....

Biden Killed The Israel-Europe EastMed Gas Pipeline, How’s That Looking Now?

Posted by Johanna Markind on February 24, 2022 44 Comments

Why is the U.S. continuing to pursue a policy that strengthens Russia and weakens our allies?...

Israel Rated More Democratic Than the U.S., Spain, Italy, and South Africa – Amnesty Int’l Hardest Hit

Posted by Johanna Markind on February 21, 2022 18 Comments

EIU Democracy Index also says highly-rated Canada’s score fell a bit as support increased there for non-democratic rule by experts, citizens chafe at pandemic-related restrictions on freedoms, and trust in gov’t falls....

Whoopi Goldberg Said What Progressives – Including ADL – Are Thinking About Racism

Posted by Johanna Markind on February 15, 2022 57 Comments

When Whoopi Goldberg said the Holocaust wasn’t about race, because Nazis and Jews were both white, she voiced what has become unquestioned truth in today’s progressive circles. The ADL, an organization founded to fight Jew-hatred, is complicit....

Middle East Studies Association Defends Terror-Infused Palestinian University, While Moving To Boycott Israeli Academia

Posted by Johanna Markind on February 13, 2022 2 Comments

MESA membership is voting now on a resolution to boycott all Israeli academic institutions. After the IDF arrested five student operatives at a Hamas stronghold, MESA accused Israel of a "horrifying escalation of ongoing assaults on Palestinian universities.”...

Middle East Studies Association Losing Institutional Members As Anti-Israel Boycott Resolution Voting Starts

Posted by Johanna Markind on February 09, 2022 15 Comments

MESA website lists 8 fewer institutional members since MESA passed an initial BDS resolution, which now is in process of a membership ratification vote....

FEMA Partners With CAIR To Protect Houses of Worship, Ignoring Incitement Against Jews

Posted by Johanna Markind on February 03, 2022 23 Comments

As CAIR releases report accusing Jewish groups of "Islamophobia" as way of silencing criticism....

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