Posts Tagged: intersectionality
Violence Against Diaspora Jews Is Not Israel’s Fault
JNS.org - After three Arab terror attacks in a week that cost 11 lives, Israel’s government and citizens are in a heightened state of alert...
New Book Takes on Ilhan Omar, but Ends Up a Missed Opportunity
Review of "American Ingrate: Ilhan Omar and the Progressive-Islamist Takeover of the Democratic Party" by Benjamin Weingarten, Bombardier Books, 2020. Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota has...
Ilhan Omar and the Axis of Antisemitism
American Jews are facing a perfect storm of antisemitism. On the one side are the antisemites of the right: the hate that coalesced in the...
Why Intersectional Ideology Undermines the Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.
JNS.org - The alliance between African-Americans and Jews during the struggle for civil rights has often been invoked when tensions between the two communities have...
All Politics Is Local: How Off-Campus Anti-Israel Activists Impact Campus BDS
Back in the summer of 2009, the Atlanta, Georgia chapter of the virulently anti-Israel Quaker organization American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) launched a campaign...
Students for Justice in Palestine Misleads Minority Groups to Oppose Israel
Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) speaks highly of its efforts to "highlight intersectional themes and struggles," and attract "diverse and unified student activist populations"...
Countering Intersectionality’s Anti-Zionist Hypocrisy by Empowering the Next Generation
JNS.org - Black Lives Matter (BLM) activist Shaun King said that basketball star Draymond Green “got played” by visiting Israel on a “Friends of the IDF”-sponsored trip. A...
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...
Intersectionality: The New False God
When young people arrive at college today, they are likely to be confronted by a new, dogmatic orthodoxy. It has nothing to do with religion, but...
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...
We Must Call Out Activists’ Antisemitic Bigotry
A good litmus test for the strength of a society is how it perceives and treats its minorities. In the United States, there was no...
A Jewish Version of Intersectionality
JNS.org - Whatever else is said these days about antisemitism, it remains the case that being accused of it is a surefire way of gaining name...
Trinity College Professor With Anti-Israel Track Record Calls for Death of ‘Inhuman’ White People After Scalise Shooting
A Trinity College professor with a track record of involvement in anti-Israel activities has written on social media that white people are "inhuman a-holes" and need to "die,"...
What Links Progressive Intersectionality? Blame the ‘Zionists’
“When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews. You’re talking antisemitism,” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. declared in 1968. Dr. King’s admonishment is as relevant today...
