The hateful and often violent rhetoric prominent at anti-Israel rallies is something we have tracked and documented for years. While participants may claim they are advocating for Palestinian rights, most of the speeches and chants are rooted in rage against the Jewish state and the fact of its existence. Rejecting…
You guys, the Zionists are being so mean to me! All I’ve done is call (repeatedly) for the elimination of the world’s only Jewish state “by any means necessary.” Sure, any means includes violence and terrorism, but I made that sentiment a principal element of my organization “Within Our Lifetime.” And yeah, I…
If a seminar last Wednesday organized by the anti-Israel group Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) is any indicator, City University of New York (CUNY) law students may be challenged both in vocabulary and in irony. Palestinians are resisting “genocide,” third-year CUNY law student Nerdeen Kiswani said during the seminar.…
I’ve spent a lot of time in recent months chronicling the unabashed hatred spewed by Zahra Billoo, one of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)’s highest profile chapter directors. That’s because, when it comes to antisemitism, Billoo is the gift that keeps on giving. And because it’s abundantly clear that…
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) again is making it clear that its understanding of antisemitism stops at the moment Israel, the birthplace of Judaism whose existence is supported by more than 90 percent of the world’s Jewry, is mentioned favorably. Last week, CAIR’s Philadelphia chapter filed an EEOC complaint, alleging…
The Council on American-Islamic Relations’ (CAIR) punishment for an antisemitic rant, coming from an employee with a history of antisemitic hate speech, appears to be two months off. Zahra Billoo has returned to work as executive director of CAIR’s San Francisco/Bay Area chapter, just two months after announcing a “sabbatical.”…
Less than four days after a gunman held four Jews hostage inside a Texas synagogue in a doomed attempt to free a convicted terrorist, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) thinks it is ready to renew its campaign to achieve the same objective. “It’s time to push back,” CAIR’s Dallas chapter…
A pretty remarkable thing happened last weekend. The leaders of two organizations which are supposed to be in business to fight bigotry took turns accusing each other of engaging in bigotry. One party is right. But having us say so doesn’t go far. So consider this an invitation to American news outlets which…
The Washington Post posted a profile Sunday about the police chief of a small Georgia town who has a fairly revolutionary training program. Rather than teaching his officers to shoot at a suspect’s “center mass,” LaGrange Police Chief Louis Dekmar wants his cops – when possible – to aim lower. The objective is…
He is a retired U.S. Army colonel and once a top aide to then-Secretary of State Colin Powell. He now works as a “distinguished adjunct professor of government & public policy” at the College of William & Mary, and serves on the Military Religious Freedom Foundation’s board. But Lawrence Wilkerson doesn’t believe…
As we commemorate the 20th anniversary of the horrific 9/11 attacks, the pain endures for the survivors and for the family members of the nearly 3,000 people who perished that day. New York lost hundreds of first responders at the World Trade Center, and 2,500 U.S. soldiers made the ultimate sacrifice in Afghanistan.…
The Taliban has returned to power in Afghanistan. Iran is racing toward a nuclear weapon. Lebanon is on the brink of collapse as Hizballah – the Iranian proxy – stands to gain even more power as it waits for the day it unleashes 130,000 rockets and precision missiles on Israel. Despite all these realities, anti-Israel activist Osama Abuirshaid stood outside…