University of Toronto’s Trevor Young is the Dean of the Temerty Faculty of Medicine, the Vice-Provost of Relations with Health Care Institutions, the Professor and former Chair of the Department of Psychiatry, a Professor in the Department of Pharmacology and...
British playwright Caryl Churchill was awarded the European Drama Prize in April 2022 only for the award to be rescinded in October in retaliation for Churchill’s continued support of the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement. More than 170 actors,...
Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) is national organization composed of Jewish Americans and allies who “support full equality for Palestinians and Jewish Israelis grounded in international law and universal principles of human rights.” While JVP is a Jewish faith-based...
Israeli director Yoav Shamir asks, “What is anti-Semitism today?” and what he finds is provocative, enlightening, and sometimes quizzically funny. The film features interviews with experts and organizations from a broad spectrum of political perspectives. Year: 2010...
John Donvan moderates an IntelligenceSquared debate asking the question, "Is anti-Zionism the new anti-Semitism?" Journalist Bret Stephens and Israeli politician Dr. Einat Wilf argue that it is, and Professors Dr. Peter Beinart and Dr. Yousef Munnayer argue that it...
Haaaretz journalists Gideon Levy and Alex Levac reported on a West Bank burglary case in 2020 in which a small Palestinian business was repeatedly burglarized by Jewish settlers. Was this burglary motivated by racism? Mohammed Mahmadi, 29, left his restaurant job in...
Curtis Bell, President of Unitarian Universalists for Justice in the Middle East, spoke to the First Unitarian Church’s Department of Social Justice about his two months in Hebron and what he learned about the Palestinian experience under Israeli occupation. Video...
The Graduate and Professional Student Senate (GPSS) at Virginia Tech passed a resolution in October 2021 demanding that the University’s administration enact an academic boycott of Israel and institutions “complicit in maintaining the Israeli occupation.” The...
In 2000, the heads of Jerusalem churches wrote a letter to the leaders at Camp David as they decided the status of Jerusalem. In 2017, these patriarchs once again wrote a letter, but this time it was directed to U.S. President Donald Trump. Jerusalem Christian church...
Controversy fell upon the Temerty Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto in 2022 as debate swirled between accusations of antisemitism and anti-Palestinian racism. A confidential letter—addressed to Acting Dean Patricia Houston and signed by 45 Faculty...