When Academia Enables Harm: Antisemitism in Mental Health Scholarship
This article was originally published by The Times of Israel Blogs on October 10, 2025, at [https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/when-academia-enables-harm-antisemitism-in-mental-health-scholarship/]. All rights remain with the original author and publisher. In July 2025, I published an article focused on the abandonment of Jewish therapists within the mental health field, shedding light on pervasive antisemitism in the discipline. The responses […]
European Campuses Embrace Increasing Antisemitism: Presented at the European Parliament (Brussels)
Presented at the European Parliament, Brussels, September 3, 2025: I must begin by congratulating B’nai B’rith International, Democ, and the European Union of Jewish Students on the September 2025 publication of their extremely important report, “‘A Climate of Fear and Exclusion’: Antisemitism at European Universities”. Covering nine countries (Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, […]
A Broken Trust: An Educator’s Reckoning with a Post-October 7 World
This article was originally published by The Times of Israel Blogs on July 18, 2025, at [https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/a-broken-trust-an-educators-reckoning-with-a-post-october-7-world]. All rights remain with the original author and publisher. For twenty years, I didn’t just work in public education; I lived it. I had the profound privilege of building my career on a foundation of equity, serving as […]
Antisemitism in Iran’s Nuclear Discourse: The Fusion of Ideology and Strategy
Introduction Few contemporary foreign policy challenges embody the entanglement of ideology and strategy as vividly as Iran’s nuclear program. Since its covert facilities at Natanz and Arak were exposed in 2002, Iran has been at the center of a fraught international debate about proliferation, sanctions, and the prospects for regional war. Much of the scholarly […]
The Abandonment of Jewish Therapists: Antisemitism in the Mental Health Field
This article was originally published by The Times of Israel Blogs on July 2, 2025, at [https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-abandonment-of-jewish-therapists-antisemitism-in-the-mental-health-field/]. All rights remain with the original author and publisher. The horrors of October 7, 2023, will forever be ingrained in our memories as one of the darkest, most horrific days in modern Jewish history—and the deadliest attack on […]
Oh Canada, We Have a Problem
Israel’s Ministry for Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism documents the rise of antisemitic incidents around the world in its April 2025 Summary Report on Antisemitism. Surprising to some, perhaps, was the dramatic increase reported in 2024 in Canada – up 670 percent compared to 200 percent in the United States. It was not a surprise to […]
How Hamas Promotes Sadism in its War Against Israel
The horrific acts Hamas terrorists carried out against women, men, and children on October 7, constitute degenerate behaviour of the vilest kind. These atrocities are on record, documented by the terrorists themselves – using dashcams and GoPro cameras then uploaded to social media – and where, strangely, these individuals exhibit a sense of pleasure, even […]
Antisemitism in France: A persistent reality in 2024
On January 22, 2025, the Service for the Protection of the Jewish Community in France (SPCJ) published its annual report on antisemitism for 2024, preceding the Ministry of the Interior. The Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France (CRIF), relying on this data, quickly relayed the information by publishing a summary on its website. […]
Turning Holocaust Remembrance into Holocaust-Inversion: An example from Cambridge
A ceremony marking the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust held at a Cambridge Theological Federation College on January 27th, invoked comparisons between the situation of Palestinians in the recent Gaza war and Jews during the Holocaust. Related allusions were conveyed at the conclusion of the event in a […]
Appropriate or Delete: How to Rewrite Jewish History and Steal the Holocaust 80 Years Later
On January 1, 2025, the name Hugo Valentin was removed from an interdisciplinary research center at Uppsala University’s Faculty of Arts in Sweden. The Hugo Valentin Center was established on January 1, 2010, to conduct research and offer teaching in the field of Holocaust and genocide studies. Valentin was a Swedish historian, scholar, and leading […]