Posts Tagged: anti-semitism
California’s First Amendment Follies
Jewish advocates are often unfairly misrepresented as trying to suppress speech that is critical of Israel, especially on university campuses. Sadly, this trope...
Defending Judith Butler in the Ivory Tower
The controversy that erupted when it became known that the prominent American post-structuralist philosopher Judith Butler will be awarded Frankfurt's prestigious Theodor Adorno Prize has...
British MP: South African Boycott of Israel Like Nazi Boycott of Jewish Shops
In a speech to the South African Board of Jewish Deputies last week, Denis MacShane, a Member of Parliament in Britain said that South Africa's...
Impenetrable: The Hollow Rhetoric of Judith Butler
That title appears a contradiction. We think of the impenetrable as dense, so thick and compacted it cannot be pierced. But what is hollow is...
Israel Foreign Ministry Launches Jewish Refugee Awareness Campaign
Before 1948, there were close to one million Jews living in the Arab world, while today only a few thousand still remain. During the...
Jews, Immigrate to Israel
In June, a court in Cologne, Germany ruled that circumcision is "irreversible interference in the integrity of the human body." In August, criminal charges...
Two Men Attempt to Run Over Hasidic Jews in New York
Two men in upstate New York have been arrested and charged with crimes after they allegedly drove a vehicle into a crowd of Hasidic Jews...
The State of the Jews: A Critical Appraisal (REVIEW)
The State of the Jews A Critical Appraisal by Edward Alexander Transaction Publishers, 2012. $35 pp. 264 As anti-Zionism/anti-Semitism have become more acceptable as "genuine" criticism within...
Guardian’s Chris McGreal Suggests IDF ‘Killing’ of Corrie no Different than Hamas Suicide Bombing
While Chris McGreal may be the Guardian's Washington correspondent, he is certainly not a "reporter". His shrill, tendentious activist journalism - which arguably makes Harriet Sherwood...
Exposing the Deep-Seated Roots of Anti-Semitism
Contrary to Popular Beliefs, the Ancient Hatred of Jews Transcends All Issues of Politics, Economics, History, and Geography It isn't resentment over a perceived elitism or...
ADL Expresses Outrage and Horror Over Attack on Jewish Michigan State Student
Following a vicious attack on a Michigan State student on Sunday, in which two men beat a Jewish student unconscious before stapling his mouth shut,...
Saving and Educating Jews are Acts of Holiness
In the book 'Defiance' (which was later made into a Hollywood film staring Liev Schreiber), the wife of a partisan says following World War II:...
Understanding the Unparalleled Phenomenon of Jewish Self-Hatred
A Small Minority Struggles to Overcome Lingering Remnants of Bitter Centuries in Slavery and in the Ghetto Unknown in other faith communities, Jewish self-hatred has...
French Police Investigate Nazi Death Camp Photos Sent to Rabbi
French police are on high alert in Lyon following a graphic letter and photographs that were sent to a local rabbi, including photos of Jewish...
