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Category Archives: Anti-Semitism
The Fence and the Blessing: How Jews Have Thought About Gentiles
Every Saturday night for something like two thousand years, in Babylon and Cordoba and Vilna and Brooklyn, a Jew has lifted a cup of wine at nightfall, lit a braided candle, and recited a blessing to close the Sabbath: praised … Continue reading
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An Alliance Theory of Antisemitism
Here’s a new paper, “Justifying Antisemitism: Political Liberalism and Perceptions of Prejudices.” The paper has pre-registration, three experiments, quota samples, open data, and a discussion section that reports the findings that cut against the paper’s news hook as prominently as … Continue reading
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The Self-Hating Jew
I rarely respect any truth claims within this epithet while I simultaneously respect the slur’s utility. “Self-hating Jew” is a loyalty-enforcement epithet doing the work every durable coalition needs done, and the tell is that every group has one. Blacks … Continue reading
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The Borrowed Robe: How Antisemitism Dresses in Each Age’s Virtue
In the spring of 1144, the body of a twelve-year-old apprentice named William was found in Thorpe Wood outside Norwich. Nobody knows who killed him. A few years later a monk named Thomas of Monmouth arrived at the cathedral priory … Continue reading
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The Internet’s Most Notorious Antisemite Walks into… Lakewood (The Lucas Gage story)
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Paul Craig Roberts: From the Treasury to the Margins
Paul Craig Roberts (b. 1939) built a career that ran from academic economics through the Reagan Treasury to the outer edges of American dissident commentary. He stands among the principal architects of supply-side economics and served as Assistant Secretary of … Continue reading
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Rodney Martin & Press TV
Rodney Martin (b. 1969) lives north of Los Angeles. He retired in 2009 from a firm that did land development and government relations, and he served for a time on the staff of a U.S. Congressman handling military and veteran … Continue reading
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E. Michael Jones, Culture Wars & Iran
Author E. Michael Jones sits at the center of a small, dense world run out of South Bend, Indiana. He founded Culture Wars magazine as Fidelity in 1981, then renamed it after he borrowed Bismarck's word Kulturkampf to name the … Continue reading
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Ye and the Jewish Question: A Bio of Belief, Bigotry, and Aftermath
Kanye West (b. 1977), now known as Ye, came up in Chicago as the son of an English professor and a photojournalist. His mother Donda (1949–2007) shaped his early sense of himself as both intellectual and outsider. He started as … Continue reading
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NYT: ‘Commander of Iraqi Militia Accused of Plotting Attacks on Jewish Sites in U.S.’
The New York Times says: “The complaint said that Mr. al-Saadi planned to kill Americans and Jews in Los Angeles and New York City and that he had started planning an attack on a synagogue in New York City.” ChatGPT … Continue reading
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