Be a voice of truth

By Noga Gur-Arieh
Published on March 7, 2013

The first time I heard the combination of the words “Israel” and “apartheid” together was a year ago. I had just started writing the Israelife blog at jewishjournal.com, and I was at the beginning of my learning process regarding how different people worldwide view Israel.

February 20, 2013

By Shmuel Rosner
Published on February 20, 2013

UC Irvine student divestment vote rejected by school officials

By Tom Tugend
Published on November 15, 2012

A resolution passed by the UC Irvine undergraduate student council calling on the university to divest from companies that “profit from Israel’s occupation of Palestine” has been rejected by the UCI administration.

Israel angered by South African move on settlement goods

Published on August 23, 2012

Israel accused South Africa on Thursday of behaving like an apartheid state by requiring Israeli goods made by West Bank settlers to be labeled as originating from occupied Palestinian territory.

Walker refuses to authorize Hebrew ‘Color Purple’

Published on June 18, 2012

The author of the “Color Purple” refused to authorize a Hebrew translation of her prize-winning work, citing what she called Israel’s “Apartheid state.”

American Jews fight for Israel

By Noga Gur-Arieh
Published on May 15, 2012

German opposition head rues referring to Hebron situation as ‘apartheid’

Published on March 15, 2012

The leader of Germany's main opposition party acknowledged that he may have gone too far when he wrote on Facebook that Israel is running an "apartheid regime" in Hebron.

Taking a stand. Together.

By Noga Gur-Arieh
Published on March 8, 2012

German seminary honors anti-apartheid activist

Published on September 28, 2011

Germany's Progressive Jewish seminary has given its highest honor to a former anti-apartheid activist with roots in Berlin.

Jewish anti-apartheid activists honored

Published on August 29, 2011

Arthur Goldreich, an anti-apartheid struggle activist, was honored posthumously by the South African Jewish Board of Deputies during its national conference in Johannesburg.

African stamps honor Jews who fought apartheid

By Jonah Lowenfeld
Published on April 12, 2011

Every year, Jews around the world tell the story of the Israelites’ liberation from slavery in roughly the same way. And every year, familiar props help bring that story to life.

Black students group slams ‘apartheid’ abuse

Published on April 8, 2011

An African American students group took out ads in college newspapers blasting "Israel Apartheid week" organizers for abusing the term. In a full page entitled "words matter" and appearing in the newspapers on April 7, Vanguard Leadership Group accuses Students for Justice in Palestine of a "false and deeply offensive" characterization of Israel.

African countries honor apartheid-fighting Jews with stamps

Published on March 21, 2011

Three African countries issued a set of commemorative postal sheets remembering famous Jews who fought apartheid in South Africa. Liberia, Sierra Leone and Gambia issued the three black-and-white postal stamp sheets at the beginning of March.

Saree Makdisi Dumbs Down Apartheid

By Rob Eshman
Published on June 13, 2010

South Africa likens Israeli restrictions to apartheid

Published on April 26, 2010

The South African government has compared new Israeli military restrictions on the movement of Palestinians in the West Bank to apartheid pass laws.

Protest sparked over Toronto Film Festival’s focus on Tel Aviv

By Danielle Berrin
Published on September 3, 2009

South African Rabbi: Israel doesn’t deserve apartheid attack

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on August 4, 2008

The other ‘N- word’

By Jordan Susman
Published on March 13, 2008

Few words have the power to upset individuals and corrode a conversation more than the N-word. Its very use short-circuits rational discourse. Thrown around with frequency in certain circles, the N-word provokes and torments, gaining totemic power with each use. The N-word I refer to is, of course, "Nazi."

Muslims and Jews must move on and strengthen ties

By Omar Ricci
Published on October 5, 2006

The decision by the L.A. County Commission on Human Relations to give its John Allen Buggs Humanitarian Award to Muslim leader Dr. Maher Hathout and the vitriolic rhetoric from a segment of the Jewish community.

Truth Trumps Presbyterian Divestment Resolution

By Rabbi Abraham Cooper
Published on June 29, 2006

Last week, delegates to the Presbyterian Church USA's (PCUSA) General Assembly in Birmingham, Ala., voted to undo their hateful 2004 anti-Israel divestment resolution.

Seeing Red Over Green’s Israel Policy

By Robert David Jaffee
Published on May 18, 2006

Local leaders of the Green Party are working to overturn an anti-Israel resolution that has become official party policy.

Songs of Power

By Naomi Pfefferman
Published on February 27, 2003

Lee Hirsch struggled for nine years to make "Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony," which won the audience and Freedom of Expression Awards at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival and opens today in Los Angeles.

Durban, the Sequel

By James D. Besser
Published on November 29, 2001

Geneva and Ann Arbor, Mich., may be a world apart, but they now have something in common: both are settings for a reinvigorated effort to undercut the very legitimacy of Israel.

The same folks responsible for turning this summer's Durban conference on racism into an anti-Israel free-for-all are getting set for an encore performance in Geneva next week. And in college towns like Ann Arbor, Arab and Muslim student groups are using spurious comparisons with South Africa to discredit Israel.

Ideological Insults

By Michael J. Jordan
Published on September 13, 2001

As terror struck New York and Washington, D.C., Jewish activists were still recovering from the ideological bomb of a U.N. conference that lashed out at Israel as racist and apartheid.