Posts Tagged: cancel culture
In Defense of Ronen Shoval, Im Tirtzu and Jewish Sanity
JNS.org - David Isaac’s recent article describing the attempt by (no surprise) Israeli academics at Princeton University to deny Ronen Shoval—currently serving a year-long fellowship...
Cancel Culture Infects the Beautiful Prayer for Israel
JNS.org - For many decades, during Shabbat services, Conservative and Religious Zionist Orthodox congregations have recited the heartfelt Prayer for the State of Israel, written...
Israel’s Key National Security Challenge in 2023
JNS.org - Israel’s primary national security challenge in 2023 is reinforcing education regarding the 4,000-year-old Jewish roots in the Land of Israel, and bolstering of...
Harvard Didn’t Cancel Kenneth Roth; it Decided Not to Honor an Antisemite
JNS.org – Cancel culture in academia is a serious problem. There is no sector of American society in which dissent is so routinely crushed, or...
The Need for Classic Liberal Values
In 1942, a group of students at the University of Munich formed an intellectual resistance group called the WeiBe Rose -- White Rose. The group’s...
Passover and Preserving History in 2021
Cecil B. Demille’s famous film "The Ten Commandments" was a massive box office hit. Decades before, in 1923, Demille made a silent film of the...
Macron Is Right; Islamo-Leftism Is a Threat
It started with a beheading. Last October, 18-year-old Chechen refugee Abdullakh Anzorov used a cleaver to murder history teacher Samuel Paty on the streets of a...
When Will the Woke Go Full Caligula?
The other day, I was scrolling through Twitter when I happened upon this particular tweet, directed against the former New York Times opinion editor Bari...
We Need Cancel Culture to Fight Hate and Antisemitism, but Must Limit Its Abuse
In many ways, freedom of speech is the most fraught, controversial, and essential right in any democratic society. Without it, in fact, there can be...
Jewish Actor Josh Malina Asks Why ‘Cancel Culture’ Ignores Antisemitism
Jewish actor and "West Wing" star Josh Malina advocated on Tuesday for the withdrawal of support for public figures who exhibited antisemitic behavior. "Why’s it so...
‘Cancel Culture’ Should Include Antisemitism as Well as Racism
JNS.org - In the weeks since the brutal and unjustified killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer, America has been undergoing what The...
The Demonization of Netanyahu Adviser Aaron Klein
For too long in America, we’ve seen people fired, forced to resign, or otherwise de-platformed for nothing more than expressing an unpopular political opinion. With...
Jews Should Not Help ‘Tear It All Down’
JNS.org - As long as we’re tearing down monuments and statues to alleged racists, why not trash the antisemites while we’re at it? That’s the attitude...
