The campaign against the Philadelphia Orchestra’s upcoming tour to Israel continues to intensify. Eleven longtime subscribers and donors have issued a statement announcing their decision to withdraw their support of the Orchestra if it does not cancel the tour. “We will no longer support the Orchestra if it decides to lend legitimacy to Israel’s apartheid regime,” the statement reads.
Marking this Brexit-Trump moment, racism and xenophobia threaten anti-Semitism writ large and unsurprisingly in the mix Zionism is conflated with Judaism. That criticism of Israel is anti-Semitism follows. Extraordinary navigation tools are recommended to swim against this political undertow. One such resource is Zionism Unsettled: A Congregational Study Guide, (ZU) published by the Israel/Palestine Mission Network of the Presbyterian Church.
Ads reading “Islamic Jew Hatred: It’s in the Quran” appeared on SEPTA buses in Philadelphia on April Fool’s Day. No joke. Activists have slapped Hate Speech stickers on them.
Anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism are NOT “one and the same,” Susan Landau writes. Protests against the state of Israel for maintaining the illegal occupation of the Palestinians, denying their human rights, and violating international law are not inherently anti-Semitic. Attacking Jews because they are Jewish IS anti-Semitic
The abject failure of the government of Israel to uphold international law evidenced by institutionalizing…