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Category Archives: Anti-Semitism
Forward: Inauguration ‘Deploraball’ Split Over Anti-Semitic Donald Trump Backers in ‘Alt-Right’
Trump-supporting ethno-nationalists and civic nationalists keep fighting with each other while the Left must cheer the personal destruction. The Forward has devoted more articles and more resources to the Alt Right than any other Jewish publication. They’ve done a ton … Continue reading
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Sometimes Jews & Non-Jews Get On Great
Sometimes differences are fantastic for a relationship and sometimes they make a relationship impossible. According to Wikipedia: The Jewish question is the name given to a wide-ranging debate in European society pertaining to the appropriate status and treatment of Jews … Continue reading
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When Anti-Semitism Strengthens Group Identity
When most people, Jew or gentile, hear the term “anti-Semitism”, they immediately assume it is a bad thing, an ignorant prejudice, and a type of mental virus that leads to gas chambers. I am not so sure. From my perspective, … Continue reading
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James Kirchick: ‘SHONDA: The Jews Begging to Join the Alt-Right: Talk about self-hating. Meet the American Jews lining up to shout ‘Seig Heil’ and ‘Hail, Donald.’’
Jamie Kirchick writes for The Daily Beast: “We insist on joining the club that refuses to have us as members” might as well be the mantra of some aspiring Jewish adherents of the racist “alt-right.” There are only two honorable … Continue reading
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Good Goyim and Bad Jews: Getting Clear on Jews and the Alt Right
Ari Ben Canaan writes: Jamie Kirchick’s recent attack against this website, my collaborators and our audience is, unfortunately, a typical example of the attitudes of many Jews toward the Alt Right: underinformed, confused, and at times hysterical. It is also, … Continue reading
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Santa Monica Synagogue Smeared with Feces in Attack on Chanukah
Breitbart: SANTA MONICA, California — A local synagogue entrance was smeared with feces and food in an apparent antisemitic attack on the first night of Chanukah on Saturday night. Congregants arriving for prayers on Sunday morning at the Living Torah … Continue reading
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LAT: ‘Campaign 2016’s anti-Semitism has me feeling conspicuously Jewish this Christmas season’
Noah Berlatsky writes: Like many secular Jews in the United States, I celebrate Christmas. My wife, who is nominally Christian in much the way that I am nominally Jewish, bought a little fake tree with lights, and on the 25th … Continue reading
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Forward: Anti-Semitic ‘Alt-Right’ and Misogynist Pick-Up Artists Join Forces
Forward: On Jezebel, classics scholar Donna Zuckerberg (who happens to be Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s sister) raises an important question: “[W]hy have so many white, male leaders of communities and websites that used to focus on sex and gender shifted … Continue reading
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UCLA Daily Bruin: Submission: SJP-hosted film screening endorses attempt to normalize anti-Semitism
Daily Bruin: Students for Justice in Palestine at UCLA hosted its widely advertised screening of “The Occupation of the American Mind” on Wednesday, followed by a discussion with executive producer Sut Jhally and an appearance by famed Pink Floyd musician … Continue reading
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How the far right is trying to woo an unlikely ally — Jews
Washington Post: VIENNA — Attendees gathered this month inside Vienna’s opulent Grand Hotel for an extraordinary event billed as the “New Anti-Semitism Conference.” The Israeli superspy who hunted down war criminal Adolf Eichmann flew in for the occasion, timed to … Continue reading
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