Zoom Panel: Addressing Campus Anti-Israel Activity was a Huge Success

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Voice4Israel’s First Zoom Event was a Huge Success On April 30th, 2020 Voice4Israel hosted our first Zoom event. It reached maximum capacity well beforehand and was a huge success!  We heard from a panel including Max Cherman, a senior at Duke University, Dr. Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, the Founder and Director of AMCHA Initiative, Joel Bond, Assistant … Read more

How Innocent Children Learn Blood Libels and Antisemitism

During a Chanukah celebration in late 2019 in Monsey, NY, a rabbi’s house was invaded and five Jews were stabbed. 71 year-old Josef Neumann is one of the stabbing victims. Neumann was severely wounded and may never regain consciousness. Neuman’s family issued a statement concluding: “We urge fellow Jews across the United States and around … Read more

JVP Endorses Antisemitism

Israel, Durham City Council, Israel Resolution

Earlier this month, Voice4Israel published a statement explaining how the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement opposes the very existence of Israel. Now we have learned that the Triangle North Carolina chapter of the Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), true to its BDS mission of abolishing Israel, recently promoted the “Miko Peled NC Tour” on … Read more

Local Rabbis Urge Orange County to Choose Speakers Who Unite

Linda Sarsour will be the keynote speaker on March 31 in Hillsborough, NC at an event sponsored by Orange County’s Department of Human Rights & Relations and The Orange County Human Relations Commission (HRC) of NC “in honor of women’s history month.”  Many community members have voiced concerns including Orange County Commissioner Earl McKee who … Read more

A Second Punch in the Gut: Updated HRC Draft Endorses Discrimination Against Israel and the Jewish People

Durham HRC, Israel, Durham City Council

A Second Punch in the Gut Ladies and Gentlemen, In the history of the Jewish people, we should by now be accustomed to government discrimination against Jews and Israel. Yesterday, an updated, January 2019 draft report was sent to Voice4Israel and the Jewish Federation of Durham-Chapel Hill by the Durham Human Relations Commission (HRC). It is … Read more

Anti-Semitic “Deadly Exchange” campaign can be defeated when local pro-Israel groups respond quickly

Legal Insurrection, Deadly Exchange, Israel, anti-Semitism

By Miriam Elman Originally published in Legal Insurrection here with accompanying pictures and social media posts.  In Rhode Island, the small but active RI Coalition for Israel immediately responded to the Jewish Voice for Peace pressure campaign, and the Rhode Island State Police (as well as Boston Police) did not cancel their Israel trips. Anti-Israel activists … Read more

Duke Mural Commemorating Pittsburgh Victims Defaced with Swastika

A mural painted by Duke students and faculty commemorating the victims of the shooting in Pittsburgh was defaced yesterday with a swastika.  Duke University student Max Cherman tells Voice4Israel, “This is extremely disturbing. Duke students are writing President Price in response. There is a large group of Jewish students that are very concerned and looking … Read more