Harold Brackman
ARTICLES BY: Harold Brackman
Pete Buttigieg vs. the Pharisees
A few years younger than John F. Kennedy was when he set his sights on the White House, Mayor Pete Buttigieg has emerged as the...
The Troubling History Behind Quebec’s New Law to Ban Kippahs
Quebec’s new government has created a firestorm by proposing a new law outlawing the wearing of religious head coverings by public servants. The rationale is...
Shakespeare, the GOP, and the Changing Nature of Antisemitism
The GOP minority on the House Judiciary Committee recently decided to call a witness during a hearing on white nationalism and hate crimes who defended...
The Jews Who Fought Hitler in Hollywood
Ben Urwand’s The Collaboration: Hollywood's Pact With Hitler (2013) is one of two recent books arguing that the legendary Hollywood studio heads were less than...
The Nexus Between Anti-Judaism and Antisemitism
In Civilization and Its Discontents (1930), Freud evoked the historic architecture of Rome in order to explain the structure of the human mind. What if...
Despite Trump’s Friendship, North Korea Is an Enemy of Free People Everywhere
Last week, the international community erupted in various degrees of outrage over President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights. Yet...
Rose Schneiderman Fought for American Labor Rights — and Zionism
All of four feet, ten inches tall -- with a full head of red hair and a fiery oratorical style -- Rose Schneiderman was a...
What Is Ilhan Omar Really Up To?
The bipartisan coalition in American politics in support of Israel since 1948 has been a blessing for the Jewish state -- and sometimes even a...
After New Zealand, We Must Unite American Minorities
The mass murder of innocent Muslim worshipers in the idyllic country of New Zealand by a white supremacist Islamophobe is a grave challenge to religious...
The Antisemitism of Ilhan Omar
Everyone should be skeptical of the Democrats’ new political theology against “all hate” -- but not specifically antisemitism. Their Congressional resolution fails to name, much less...
How Will Democrats Respond to the Omar Firestorm?
Freshman Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is a Muslim-American critic of Israel. She now occupies ground zero for American Jews who vote Democratic, but support Israel. First, Omar’s...
The History of Antisemitism in New York
America's long suspicion of New York City as a hotbed of irreligion, immoral culture, and the Jewish community there can obstruct the fact that Jews...
When an African-American Hero Tried to Stop the Holocaust
In 1903, W. E. B. Du Bois wrote in the prophetic The Souls of Black Folk that “the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of...
The Yellow Vests and French Jews
The month of November is significant for the modern history of French Jews. On November 11, 1942, 745 Jews were packed into trains near Paris, and...
