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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 368

Robert Wistrich

Professor Robert S. Wistrich (screen capture: YouTube)
May 20, 2015, 9:17 am
Anti-Semitism scholar Robert S. Wistrich dies at 70
Prolific author, who often warned of resurgent hatred of Jews in Europe, suffers a heart attack in Rome
By Stuart Winer
Illustrative: a screenshot from the documentary 'Crossing the Line 2,' which depicts rising anti-Semitic activity on North American campuses. (Courtesy)
February 27, 2015, 2:37 pm
New film depicts Jewish students’ growing insecurity on campus
While calling for Jewish pride and Israel advocacy, documentary portrays North American universities as anti-Semitic battlefields
By Cathryn J. Prince
Women light candles to commemorate the victims killed in an attack at the Paris offices of the weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo, in front of the French Embassy in Berlin, Thursday, Jan. 8, 2015. (photo credit: AP/Markus Schreiber)
January 9, 2015, 12:14 am
Now is the time for fraternité, says France’s chief rabbi
But some French Jews wonder why the same brotherly embrace wasn’t extended to them after numerous attacks
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Stop the Holocaust in Gaza: A pro-Palestinian protester at a Berlin rally Friday, July 18, 2014. (Micki Weinberg/The Times of Israel)
August 25, 2014, 6:04 pm
New anti-Semitism is bad enough, but it’s no Holocaust, says scholar
‘It is beneath us and counterproductive’ for Israeli and Jewish leaders to use scare tactic to validate their own agendas, argues Prof. Deborah Lipstadt
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Illustrative photo of anti-Semitic graffiti in Europe (CC BY-SA Beny Shlevich/Flickr)
August 5, 2014, 5:55 pm
Newsweek takes on European anti-Semitism
Article addresses why Jews are ‘fleeing’ Europe, but at the same time says Jewish life in Berlin is flourishing
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
FILE: Rioters throw projectiles at French riot police officers in Sarcelles, a suburb north of Paris, on July 20, 2014, after clashes following a demonstration denouncing Israel's military campaign in Gaza. (Photo credit: AFP/ PIERRE ANDRIEU
August 5, 2014, 4:21 pm
Are the ‘sins’ of Israel visited on Europe’s Jews?
While maybe not at 1930s Germany levels, Europe is infected with an anti-Semitism that should be fled from since there is no cure, says leading scholar
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Full to capacity room at the Knesset's emergency meeting on rising anti-Semitism in Europe, July 28, 2014. (Israel Bardugo / The Israeli-Jewish Congress)
July 28, 2014, 8:00 pm
Talk of feared new Holocaust at Knesset meeting on European anti-Semitism
Incitement against Jews in Germany at levels not seen since 1933, says speaker at emergency session
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
The poster for the revived UNESCO exhibit on Jewish ties to the Holy Land (photo credit: courtesy SWC)
June 18, 2014, 3:13 pm
UNESCO vetoed display on Jewish refugees from Arab lands
Organizers of revived exhibition on Jews’ ties to Holy Land, which deleted ‘Israel’ from title, agreed to remove controversial section, saying Arab states would have blocked entire show
By Raphael Ahren
The poster for the revived UNESCO exhibit, which no longer refers to the Jewish ties to the Land of Israel, but rather to the Holy Land
June 11, 2014, 7:06 pm
UNESCO deletes ‘Israel’ from title of its exhibit on Jewish ties to Israel
Arab pressure nixed original show, which traced history of Jewish connection to ‘Land of Israel’. Revived version, which opened Wednesday, refers only to the ‘Holy Land’
By Raphael Ahren
The old invitation to the exhibition, as sent out before the event in June 2014 (courtesy Simon Wiesenthal Center)
June 10, 2014, 4:53 pm
UNESCO’s nixed exhibit on Jewish ties to Israel finally goes on display
Canceled in January due to Arab pressure, the exhibition, now cosponsored by US government, opens Wednesday in Paris
By Raphael Ahren
UNESCO's Director General Irina Bokova poses with the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Rabbi Marvin Hier and the original poster for the exhibit on the Jewish people's 3,500-year connection to the land of Israel, in January, 2014. (photo credit: Courtesy Simon Wiesenthal Center)
January 21, 2014, 11:55 pm
UNESCO exhibit on Jewish ties to Israel rescheduled for June
UN body had faced storm of criticism for canceling show under Arab pressure, claiming it could ‘endanger peace process’
By Haviv Rettig Gur, Raphael Ahren and Rebecca Benhamou
The invitation to the cancelled UNESCO event on 3,500 years of Jewish connection to the Land of Israel
January 21, 2014, 2:22 pm
UNESCO’s scrapping of Israel exhibit ‘a slap in the face of every Jew’
Simon Wiesenthal Center, which created show tracing 3,500 years of Jewish ties to land of Israel, urges European leaders to join US protest
By Rebecca Benhamou
UNESCO's Director General Irina Bokova poses with the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Rabbi Marvin Hier and the original poster for the exhibit on the Jewish people's 3,500-year connection to the land of Israel, in January, 2014. (photo credit: Courtesy Simon Wiesenthal Center)
January 21, 2014, 2:09 pm
Author of UNESCO’s nixed Israel exhibit decries ‘appalling betrayal’
UN organization showed its ‘contempt for the Jewish people and its history,’ Robert Wistrich fumes. And the US is ‘passively complicit’
By Raphael Ahren
Illustrative: A monument at a Jewish cemetery in Wysokie Mazowieckie, Poland is found desecrated with anti-Semitic graffiti, March 2012 (Jedrzej Wojnar/AP)
July 8, 2013, 2:09 pm
Jewish life in Europe ‘dying a slow death’?
It’s time to get out, urges Prof. Robert Wistrich, a leading authority on anti-Semitism. And he’s one of the scholars who dismisses a claim that 150 million EU citizens have demonic views of Israel
By Raphael Ahren
An Egyptian man chants anti-Israeli slogans during a Muslim Brotherhood-staged anti-Israel rally in Cairo, May 11 (photo credit: Khalil Hamra/AP)
May 28, 2013, 11:39 am
Amid controversy, Foreign Ministry kicks off anti-Semitism conference
Critics bash forum for hosting top officials from Hungary, Greece, Lithuania and Ireland — countries with ‘tainted records’ — on battling Jew hatred
By Raphael Ahren
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