IJAN in the News

Al Jazeera Opinion Page: Israel’s Insecurity Industry

IJAN's 28-page exposé, Israel's Worldwide Role in Repression, is featured in this opinion piece by Belen Fernandez for Al Jazeera.

Two Responses to Alvin Rosenfeld from Signatories to Survivors’ and Descendants’ Letter

Below are two editorials from signatories to the survivors' and descendants' letter submitted to The Jewish Daily Forward in response to Alvin Rosenfeld's op-ed which was full of ad hominem attacks on the signers. Neither op-ed was published nor did either author receive a response from The Forward. First is an op-ed by signatory Jesse Strauss and second one from Bruce Ballin. Click here to view a press release about The Forward's refusal to provide the signers an opportunity to defend themselves agains Rosenfeld's attack.

Letter from Survivors of Nazi Genocide runs in NYTimes–News Coverage

A letter signed by 40 survivors of the Nazi genocide and 287 descendants of survivors and victims ran as a half-page ad in the Saturday, August 23rd New York Times. The letter has been getting an overwhelming response. See below for news coverage and other responses. Raphael Cohen interviewed on Al Jazeera

A New War on Speech

by Selma James and Sara Kershnar Published in Jacobin Campaigns against Rabab Abdulhadi and other activists are calls for state-sponsored political harassment. In the United States, it’s on campuses that the push against Israeli colonialism is having its greatest success. Despite attempts to quash faculty and student speech, the movement continues to surge. Professors worldwide rallied ...

Jadaliyya: In Support of Swarthmore Hillel

http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/15654/in-support-of-swarthmore-hillel

[The following open letter is from The International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (IJAN)]

This past weekend, something incredibly important happened at a small college in Pennsylvania.

In response to Harvard Hillel barring an Israeli speaker because the university's Palestine Solidarity Committee had cosponsored the event at which he was to present, the Hillel at Swarthmore College issued a sweeping declaration -that it would allow multiple points of view on Zionism and Palestine within its chapter. In their words,Swarthmore Hillel would be "a religious and cultural group whose purpose is not to advocate for one single political view." It would "host and partner with any speaker at the discretion of itstudent board, regardless of Hillel International's Israel guidelines," and would do so in the full knowledge that "Hillel International's Israel guidelines privilege only one perspective on Zionism, and make others unwelcome."