In 1964, United States President Lyndon B. Johnson spoke of the importance of water in the geopolitical sphere: “Water means life, and water means opportunity, and water means prosperity for those who never knew the meaning of those words. Water can banish hunger and can reclaim the desert and change...
The Pursuit of Human Rights and the Myth of Israeli ‘Pinkwashing’
Photo: Nettadi/Wikimedia Commons The Pursuit of Human Rights and the Myth of Israeli Pinkwashing By: Austin Pellizzer On March 8, 2021, the so-called ‘human rights group’ Palestine Solidarity Collective (PSC) at York University in Toronto, Canada, launched an “Israeli Pinkwashing” campaign on its Facebook page targeting the Jewish State with...
Do York University Students Truly Understand BDS?
BDS is being pushed on York University students once again. Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) is a an antisemitic, global movement that promotes and supports various forms of boycott including against specific Israeli companies, as well as companies that do business with Israel. As with other movements like Students for...
Palestinian Christians: A Minority Threatened by Boycotts
For the ever-dwindling minority of Christians who remain in the Palestinian territories, many are recluses — bound by political and social pressures that have jeopardized their right to live out fundamental aspects of their faith, and have resulted in severe violations of their basic human rights. A report published in January by...
Blind Spots Highlight UPenn Human Rights Event
The event held at Penn Law titled “Human Rights in Israel/ Palestine” was part of a week-long series of the school’s social justice action week. The two keynote speakers were Omar Shakir of Human Rights Watch and Nadia Ben Youssef of Adallah. Given the title, one would expect the event...
New UN Secretary General, Israel Work to Turn the Page
As blossoming intellectuals at ASU, it’s important for us to have a critical eye of large institutions such as the federal government, multinational businesses and even the United Nations. The UN’s purpose appears altruistic at first glance. However, upon further examination of its actions over the last decade, the UN...
PBS Hosts Extremist Miko Peled on Talk Show
On February 2, PBS’s Tavis Smiley hosted Miko Peled on his talk show. Peled is a radical anti-Israel activist who has, in the past, falsely described Israel as an apartheid state, referred to Israeli airport security officers as the “Smiling Gestapo,” and defended terrorists. On Smiley’s program, Peled: called Jewish history...
The Choices Palestinians Make
After returning from an awful weekend trip with a Christian youth group, I told my mother I wanted to stop going to church in the next town over and worship where we lived. “Nobody likes me over there,” I said. Her response was direct and brutal: “Maybe they are not...