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Category Archives: Anti-Semitism
Tribalism Vs Universalism Among Jews
Professor Michael Barnett says: “From the 1850s through the 1967 war, American Jewish institutions that were involved in foreign policy making had a strong universal orientation, especially to the extent that they were concerned about being identified with the extremes … Continue reading
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How Eli Lake tricks readers so as to cast realists Walt, Mearsheimer and Freeman as anti-semites
Yakov Hirsch writes: Let’s read this Bloomberg story about the Koch Institute in Washington hosting Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer at an event on the future of foreign policy today. “Koch Brothers Give a Megaphone to the anti-Israel Fringe.” On … Continue reading
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THE TOP FIVE MOST HILARIOUS ANTI-SEMITIC CONSPIRACY THEORIES
How about compiling a list of the most hilarious misconceptions Jews have of non-Jews? Anti-Semitic conspiracy theories aren’t inherently most hilarious than Jewish anti-gentile theories. All in-groups have misconceptions of out-groups. Anti-Semites are not special. I come from Australia. Australians … Continue reading
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Trump Supporters Unleash Anti-Semitic Tweets at NY Times Editor
Such delicate sensitive souls all shocked and horrified by the hate. If you love good, you hate evil. If you love your people, you hate their enemies. That’s how the world works. A Torah Jew does not pay attention to … Continue reading
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WP: Ben Shapiro discovers right-wing anti-Semitism
For David Bernstein, this right-wing surge of anti-Semitism inspired by Donald J. Trump is surprising. David Bernstein must lack commonsense. If gentiles get stronger in their national, racial or religious identities, they are more likely to have negative feelings towards … Continue reading
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What Does Anti-Semitism Achieve?
Anti-Semitism and anti-Gentilism and anti-Muslim and anti-black and anti-any group are all the outgrowth of conflicting interests. If you love your people, you will react negatively to those who hurt your people. A normal person loves his own kind and … Continue reading
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New York Times Reporter Jonathan Weisman Retweets Harsh Attacks On Jews
I wonder if Jonathan Weisman has ever studied Talmud? There’s nothing in his twitter feed more shocking than what you will find in the Talmud. I’m not hurt and upset and discombobulated when Jewish texts contain anti-gentile sentiments. Ever said … Continue reading
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Surrounded by Jew-Haters
For Two Thousand Years by Mihail Sebastian, translated from the Romanian by Philip Ó Ceallaigh London: Penguin, 231 pp., £9.99 (paper) John Banville writes: In his Journal 1935–44, Mihail Sebastian, lawyer, journalist, novelist, playwright, left a profound and moving record … Continue reading
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Jewish Journal: ‘Melania Trump: Ioffe ‘provoked’ anti-Semitic abuse’
If Julia Ioffe didn’t provoke the anti-Semitic abuse, how did it end up coming her way? Pure chance? If people hate you, there is probably a reason for it. You have probably done or said something that provoked the hatred. … Continue reading
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Goldberg: Horowitz Accusing Kristol of Not Being Fanatically Pro-Semitic Enough Proves That the Anti-Semitic Cossacks Are Ready to Ride
Steve Sailer writes: From Slate, a representative response to another thing that was the Biggest Story in the History of the World for about six hours earlier this week: Breitbart Calls Trump Foe “Renegade Jew.” This Is How Anti-Semitism Goes … Continue reading
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