Posts Tagged: Black Lives Matter
Black Lives Matter: The Movement vs. The Goals
It’s hard for me to get behind the official Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. No, not my words, but the words of Barbara Reynolds, an...
The American House Is Burning
I have witnessed things this week that beggar the imagination. Tens of thousands of demonstrators marching through the streets of New York outraged at the...
Iran Berates US Over Police Killing, Slams Racism
Iran took Washington to task on Saturday over the alleged killing of an unarmed black man by a white police officer that sparked protests in...
Starbucks and Racism: Why ‘Woke’ Is Not
We now inhabit a new world of identity politics. There have always been identities of religion, nationality, and race. Too often, they have led to...
The Perversity of Intersectionality
The recent furor over the relationship between the Women’s March leadership and Nation of Islam (NOI) leader Louis Farrakhan is beginning to subside -- but its full...
The More Things Change: Israel and Intersectionality
In an earlier column, I noted how common it is for people to act as though history begins with the present, and to lack perspective on the...
Rabbis Dispute ADL’s Alt-Right List, Issue Own List of the Far-Left
JNS.org – The Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) new “hate list” of top alt-right figures “gives a free pass to antisemitism coming from left-wing activists,” a rabbinical group...
Alan Dershowitz: The Bigotry of ‘Intersectionality’
What do the terrorist group Hamas and the anti-violence group Black Lives Matter have in common? What does the democracy of Israel have in common...
Platform of Wednesday’s International Women’s Strike Calls for ‘Decolonization of Palestine’
The organizers of Wednesday’s international women’s strike support the “decolonization of Palestine,” the platform published on their website reveals. “Against the open white supremacists in the...
Black Lives Matter Offshoot Embraces Antisemitism
Last December, Chicago surpassed the 750-murder mark for 2016. But as blacks lay dying on the streets of Chicago’s south and west sides, a Black Lives...
Ryerson U Israel Activist: Student Leaders ‘Put Their Money Where Their Mouth Is’ for Jewish Peers by Passing ‘Holocaust Education Week’ Initiative
Student leaders at Toronto’s Ryerson University “put their money where their mouth is for their Jewish peers" on Monday, a campus activist told The Algemeiner,...
Jewish Pundit Hounded by Black Lives Matter, White Supremacists Says He’s Received More Antisemitic Tweets Than Any Media Peer
Calling himself “more conservative than [President-elect Donald] Trump on every issue,” yet the bane of the alt-right, the editor-in-chief of the Daily Wire -- who has...
Political Theater: Not Good for the Jews
It is a gloomy and perhaps futile business to explore in depth the causes for the inexplicable free ride that Israel-haters get on campuses. But recent...
New Holocaust, Genocide Curriculum at Boston U’s Elie Wiesel Center ‘Perfect Fit’ for Renowned Survivor’s Legacy, Says Jewish Studies Prof
A new secondary academic discipline offered at Boston University (BU) -- aimed at educating about mass murder in the 20th century -- has generated much excitement among students,...
