Posts Tagged: Edward Alexander
Israel Apartheid Week: The Dirty Product of a Grotesque Alliance
The enemies of Israel neither slumber nor sleep. Right now they are engaged in "Israel Apartheid Week," spewing fire and vitriol at the Jewish...
Choose Your Side: The New York Times or Judaism
"How long halt ye between two opinions?" - 1 Kings 18:21 American Jewry is often said to be divided between those who judge Judaism by...
Antisemitism: A Specific Phenomenon (REVIEW)
Antisemitism: A Specific Phenomenon, by Clemens Heni (Berlin: Edition Critic, 2013). A publication of the Berlin International Center for the Study of Antisemitism. "As time...
“Some of My Best Friends are Antisemites”: Obama Nominates Hagel
"Europe's leaders—and all leaders—should strongly oppose antisemitism, which poisons public debates over the future of the Middle East." -President George W....
Jewish Condition, “New” Antisemitism Considered in Edward Alexander’s ‘The State of the Jews’ (INTERVIEW)
Edward Alexander, professor emeritus of English at the University of Washington, is the author of the new book, "The State of the Jews: A Critical...
Jewish Israel-Haters Convert their Dead Grandmothers: A New Mormonism?
"Who is a Jew? A Jew is someone with Jewish grandchildren." -- Yosef Haim Brenner In February of this year, Elie Wiesel asked Mitt Romney to urge...
The Prague Cemetery, by Umberto Eco (REVIEW)
The Prague Cemetery, by Umberto Eco, trans. Richard Dixon (HoughtonMifflinHarcourt, 2011). The center of this novel is The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a...
John Lennon and the Jews: A Philosophical Rampage (REVIEW)
John Lennon and the Jews: A Philosophical Rampage, by Ze'ev Maghen (Amazon.com, 2011). Gershom Scholem, the Leviathan of Jewish mysticism and influential professor at Hebrew...
Genocidal Liberalism: The University’s Jihad Against Israel & Jews (REVIEW)
Genocidal Liberalism: The University's Jihad Against Israel & Jews, by Richard L. Cravatts. Sherman Oaks, CA: David Horowitz Freedom Center, 2012. By locating a...
Brothers at War: Israel and the Tragedy of the Altalena (REVIEW)
Brothers at War: Israel and the Tragedy of the Altalena, by Jerold Auerbach, (New Orleans, LA: Quid Pro Books, 2011). MILCHEMET ACHIM!—Brothers at war!—is a...
Obama and Clinton in Defense of Islam
On June 4, 2009, addressing an audience in Cairo, Egypt, Barack Obama declared that "America is not—and never will be—at war with Islam" and that...
The Shadow of a Great Rock: A Literary Appreciation of the King James Bible (REVIEW)
The Shadow of a Great Rock: A Literary Appreciation of the King James Bible, by Harold Bloom (New Haven: Yale University Press. 2011) Anniversaries generate...
Nine Lives of Israel: A Nation’s History through the Lives of Its Foremost Leaders (REVIEW)
Nine Lives of Israel: A Nation's History through the Lives of Its Foremost Leaders, by Jack L. Schwartzwald. (Jefferson, North Carolina, and London: McFarland...
Double Review: ‘Millions of Jews to Rescue’ and ‘Herbert Hoover and the Jews’ (REVIEW)
Herbert Hoover and the Jews: The Origins of the "Jewish Vote" and Bipartisan Support for Israel, by Sonja Schoepf Wentling and Rafael Medoff (Washington:...
