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Antisemitism

Durban at 25: The Conference That Changed the War Against Israel

Twenty-five years after the UN’s Durban conference became a turning point in the campaign to delegitimize Israel, Irwin Cotler and Gil Troy look back at what happened there, how the language of racism, apartheid and colonialism was weaponized against the Jewish state, and why Durban still matters in the battles over Israel today.
Antisemitism
Identity and Education

Israel is wasting one of its greatest educational opportunities: summer

Youth movements, teachers, municipalities and civil-society organizations could join forces with Jewish camps, foundations and educational institutions abroad.
Identity and Education
Religion and State

Netanyahu’s false promise of ‘study or serve’

The latest Haredi draft slogan gives voters exactly what they want to hear without delivering the soldiers Israel needs.
Religion and State
Geopolitics

Israel cannot prevent another October 7 if Netanyahu keeps rewriting the first one

Israel cannot learn from October 7 if its leaders continue to deflect responsibility and rewrite the failures that made the massacre possible.
Geopolitics
Antisemitism

Conspiracy Theories Have Never Been Good for the Jews; They Won’t Be Good for Israel

Having suffered from this for centuries, do we really want it in our public life?
Antisemitism
Religion and State

When women are asked to disappear

In every case, the same principle is being established: when a man’s beliefs collide with a woman’s presence, the woman is the one expected to move.
Religion and State
Democracy

“The election isn’t right vs left”

JPPI Senior Fellow, Prof. Michal Bar-Asher Siegal, on the Deep Dive podcast by The Jerusalem Post talking about the upcoming Israeli elections.
Democracy
Geopolitics

Fraying the Big Tent: The Quiet Fracture of the Progressive-Muslim Alliance in America

New research by Dr. Kobby Barda exposes the cracks in the "green-red alliance" in the United States and demonstrates that a coalition of minority groups cannot permanently override deeply held religious and moral beliefs.
Geopolitics
Antisemitism

Israel’s battle for global consciousness: Why the Sparta doctrine harms national security

We lose the battle over global consciousness, Israel’s national security will be gravely weakened.
Antisemitism
Identity and Education

The Perfect Storm: Why this Rosh Hashanah May Start Israel’s Most Challenging Year Yet

A convergence of trends and events – some global, some local – threatens to turn the Jewish New Year into a “perfect storm” for Israel, from elections and war to diplomacy and climate change.
Identity and Education
Democracy

Israel’s Declaration: A Secular Sacred Text, Not a Legal Weapon

Those who cherish the Declaration must resist placing it in the legal arena.
Democracy
Identity and Education

AI will not change the Jews – or will it?

AI may not change what it means to be Jewish. But it could profoundly change the institutions through which Jewish life has been transmitted from one generation to another.
Identity and Education
Antisemitism

Durban at 25: The Conference That Changed the War Against Israel

Twenty-five years after the UN’s Durban conference became a turning point in the campaign to delegitimize Israel, Irwin Cotler and Gil Troy look back at what happened there, how the language of racism, apartheid and colonialism was weaponized against the Jewish state, and why Durban still matters in the battles over Israel today.
Antisemitism
Identity and Education

Israel is wasting one of its greatest educational opportunities: summer

Youth movements, teachers, municipalities and civil-society organizations could join forces with Jewish camps, foundations and educational institutions abroad.
Identity and Education
Religion and State

Netanyahu’s false promise of ‘study or serve’

The latest Haredi draft slogan gives voters exactly what they want to hear without delivering the soldiers Israel needs.
Religion and State
Geopolitics

Israel cannot prevent another October 7 if Netanyahu keeps rewriting the first one

Israel cannot learn from October 7 if its leaders continue to deflect responsibility and rewrite the failures that made the massacre possible.
Geopolitics
Antisemitism

Conspiracy Theories Have Never Been Good for the Jews; They Won’t Be Good for Israel

Having suffered from this for centuries, do we really want it in our public life?
Antisemitism
Religion and State

When women are asked to disappear

In every case, the same principle is being established: when a man’s beliefs collide with a woman’s presence, the woman is the one expected to move.
Religion and State
Democracy

“The election isn’t right vs left”

JPPI Senior Fellow, Prof. Michal Bar-Asher Siegal, on the Deep Dive podcast by The Jerusalem Post talking about the upcoming Israeli elections.
Democracy
Geopolitics

Fraying the Big Tent: The Quiet Fracture of the Progressive-Muslim Alliance in America

New research by Dr. Kobby Barda exposes the cracks in the "green-red alliance" in the United States and demonstrates that a coalition of minority groups cannot permanently override deeply held religious and moral beliefs.
Geopolitics
Antisemitism

Israel’s battle for global consciousness: Why the Sparta doctrine harms national security

We lose the battle over global consciousness, Israel’s national security will be gravely weakened.
Antisemitism

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Durban at 25: The Conference That Changed the War Against Israel
Durban at 25: The Conference That Changed the War Against Israel

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