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Last month, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) released its annual Audit of Antisemitic Incidents, which reports that antisemitic incidents throughout the United States grew by 34%. The number of incidents in 2021 – 2,717, more than seven per day – is at the highest...

The goal of CRConnect is to bring you information to help understand difficult questions we all face concerning both Israel and antisemitism. This month we address a complex question which distinguishes between an “antisemitic act” and “antisemitism.” As Deborah...

CRConnect provides information to help you understand difficult questions we all face concerning Israel and antisemitism.  This post explores something a little different, and talks about the issues facing families with children in the public schools during the month...

Israel as a modern state was founded on the basis of the Zionist dream of the late 19th century, advanced and promoted by Theodor Herzl. For Herzl, Zionism was a nationalist movement for the establishment of a Jewish homeland in the historic land of the Jewish...

by David Millstone  PHOTO: Aerial view of the Palestinian Shu’afat Refugee Camp in Anata, north of Jerusalem.   QUESTION: Did Israel Create the Palestinian Refugee Issue? ANSWER: The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East...

Are Israeli Settlements in the West Bank illegal under International Law? by David Millstone jerusalem-post-headline-june-6-1947 QUESTION: Are Israeli Settlements in the West Bank Illegal Under International Law? We read in the news on a regular basis that Israeli...

Why does Israel Oppose the U.S. reentering the nuclear agreement with Iran? QUESTION: Why does Israel Oppose the U.S. reentering the nuclear agreement with Iran? ANSWER: President Biden has announced (February 2021) his intent to return to the Nuclear Agreement with...

QUESTION: Isn’t it true that Israel is an apartheid state, just like South Africa was? Doesn’t that justify the same type of boycotts, divestment, sanctions and isolation from the civilized world? ANSWER: Simply stated, NO. “Apartheid” is: “a system of...

By David Millstone QUESTION: The Palestinians were in Israel first, then it was flooded with European Jews from the Holocaust.  I have sympathy for someone fleeing the Holocaust, but they shouldn’t be able to just take over someone else’s land, should they?  ...

An antisemitic cartoon by Brazilian cartoonist Carlos Latuff.   There is a sentiment among some that criticism of Israel will automatically draw the ire of Jews making the claim that such criticism makes one anti-Semitic.  Thus, the question posed is one that...