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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 346

anti-Israel bias

The inauguration ceremony of Rabbi Yoni Wieder as chief rabbi of Ireland was held at the Dublin Hebrew Synagogue, May 21, 2024. (Ros Kavanagh/ Courtesy Office of the Chief Rabbi of Ireland via JTA)
September 2, 2024, 6:49 am
At 28, Ireland’s new chief rabbi is leading an aging population in a time of turmoil
As the first to hold the position since 2008, Rabbi Yoni Wieder faces challenges on multiple fronts, integrating new and old community members amid unprecedented anti-Israel bias
By Shira Li Bartov
Adam Kirsch, an editor at the Wall Street Journal’s Weekend Review section, is the author of 'On Settler Colonialism.' (W.W. Norton & Company/ via JTA)
September 1, 2024, 1:42 am
A literary critic on why the ‘settler colonial’ framing is bad for Israel and Palestine
Struck by the number of activists and thinkers who cheered the Oct. 7 Hamas atrocities, Adam Kirsch has written a book on the misguided idealism that’s fostered Jew-hatred
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
The closed storefront of the Detroit Institute of Bagels in Detroit, Michigan, after staff walked out in protest of the store's new 'Zionist' owner, July 31, 2024. (Andrew Lapin/JTA)
August 11, 2024, 1:43 am
A Jewish bagel shop in Detroit closes after staff walk out on new ‘Zionist’ owner
Tensions over perceived gentrification and the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict came to a head last month when workers publicly quit, making waves throughout the metro area
By Andrew Lapin
Author Gabrielle Zevin speaks about her bestseller 'Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow' during the 28th Annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at the University of Southern California on April 22, 2023, in Los Angeles. (Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images via JTA)
July 26, 2024, 4:43 am
How author Gabrielle Zevin has become a literary scapegoat for anti-Israel activists
Reflecting a wider trend since October 7, the writer has been accused of being a Zionist, and therefore, worthy of a boycott — most recently by a Chicago bookstore’s book club
By Andrew Lapin
Volunteers at the Oregon Food Bank, 2023. (Screenshot via YouTube/ via JTA)
July 21, 2024, 3:26 am
When Portland charities condemned Israel, Jewish philanthropy was put to the test
After Oct. 7, groups have issued strident and one-sided statements on the war in Gaza, causing local Jews to reconsider longstanding relationships – regardless of optics
By Andrew Lapin
Anti-Israel protesters demonstrate at the University of Sydney, April 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)
July 14, 2024, 1:54 am
After Oct. 7, mass doxxing has Australian Jews wondering what happened to their country
Months after hundreds of Jewish creatives were publicly named, shamed and threatened for supporting Israel, they continue to see the fallout in what they thought was a safe haven
By Ron Kampeas
Doctors Without Borders staff gather at UN headquarters in New York to protest Israel's actions in Gaza, December 6, 2023, in New York. (Sara Kerens/AP Images for Doctors Without Borders)
July 1, 2024, 2:13 am
Ostracized post-Oct. 7, US doctor forms new association for Jewish health professionals
Jewish medical professionals say that since the onset of the Israel-Hamas war, they face a hostile atmosphere. The AJMA seeks to provide them resources and support
By Cathryn J. Prince
Volunteers staff the phones in the Westchester Unites office in New Rochelle, New York, June 19, 2024. (Luke Tress/ JTA)
June 21, 2024, 1:37 pm
Jewish get-out-the-vote effort seeks to unseat Israel critic Jamaal Bowman in NY primary
The June 25 vote reflects a contest between moderate Democrats who support Israel and progressives like the congressman who has cast doubt on reports of Hamas’s sexual violence
By Luke Tress
Prof. Barbara Risman (Courtesy)
May 21, 2024, 12:45 am
Retiring early due to antisemitism, a professor paints a dire picture of US academia
Barbara J. Risman felt that the atmosphere among University of Illinois faculty after October 7 was too much for her to bear as a Jew. Her colleagues secretly tell her she’s right
By Cathryn J. Prince
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators chant during a protest, April. 12, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
April 13, 2024, 6:20 am
Jewish writers say the post-Oct. 7 English literary world has blacklisted them
As the war in Gaza goes on, authors say that when they don’t face outright hostility for being Jews, they are marginalized as publishers claim their voices aren’t marketable
By Cathryn J. Prince
The website of Guernica, a literary magazine, shows the retracted essay by Israeli writer and translator Joanna Chen. (Screenshot via JTA/ used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law))
April 8, 2024, 6:29 pm
Chief editor of US literary magazine quits after Israeli writer’s war essay dropped
Guernica pulled essay describing complicated feelings post-October 7 following mass resignation of writers, co-publisher’s criticism of ‘hand-wringing apologia for Zionism’
By Andrew Lapin
Dr. Benjamin Neel in 2019. (Courtesy)
March 31, 2024, 12:42 am
Cancer doc speaks out on suit against NYU Langone for termination over anti-Hamas posts
Researcher Dr. Benjamin Neel claims his former employer tarnished his reputation after firing him, but reinstalled another doctor who described the Oct. 7 atrocities as ‘liberation’
By Cathryn J. Prince
Illustrative: Anti-Israel demonstrators display signs outside the home of US Sen. Elizabeth Warren during a protest on November 19, 2023, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
March 29, 2024, 4:49 pm
Massachusetts parents say public school teachers union sowing anti-Israel bias
Rhetoric during a webinar last week on ‘The Struggle Against Anti-Palestinian Racism’ was the last straw for many who say students are being ‘indoctrinated’ in the wake of Oct. 7
By Cathryn J. Prince
Joanna Chen (Heidi Levine)
March 12, 2024, 2:02 am
US literary magazine retracts Israeli writer’s coexistence essay amid mass resignations
Guernica staffers quit, calling piece by Joanna Chen that is highly critical of Israel ‘a hand-wringing apologia for Zionism’; critics lament anti-Israel extremism in literary world
By JTA and ToI Staff
A Guardian front page from October 18, 2023 (via X)
March 10, 2024, 3:36 pm
Grotesque cartoons to allegations of genocide: How the UK’s Guardian portrays Israel
The center-left daily with a growing global reach has strayed far from its early pro-Zionism and today accuses Israel of murdering Palestinian journalists, among other charges
By Robert Philpot
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