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Category Archives: Anti-Semitism
Understanding Hitler’s Hatred Of Jews
Historian Timothy Snyder (author of Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning): So what Hitler does is he inverts; he reverses the whole way we think about ethics, and for that matter the whole way we think about science. … Continue reading
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Author, psychologist delves inside ‘The Israeli Mind’
Jonathan Kirsch writes: He describes how he witnessed a lighthearted conversation in a Jerusalem coffee shop between a graduate student and a young teacher about classroom cheating. “Well, if I caught a student cheating, I wouldn’t view it as a … Continue reading
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JJ: Historian Timothy Snyder presents a provocative, new take on the Holocaust
Danielle Berrin conducts this interview: Yale historian Timothy Snyder is among the world’s leading scholars of Eastern Europe. Educated at Oxford, he is the author of five award-winning books, including the acclaimed “Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin,” about Nazi … Continue reading
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Cuckservatism explained: What’s right and wrong with this new meme
Gavin McInnes writes: Every time I try to engage someone in a debate or even present a challenging idea, the response is “I can’t even.” Young people are especially unable to deal and will add, “I literally can’t,” “I don’t … Continue reading
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Spectator: Why does the left care more about Islamophobia than anti-Semitism?
Brendan O’Neill writes: Why do leftists care more about Muslims than they do about Jews? If that sounds confrontational, consider this: this week, the Met Police released the latest hate-crime figures for London. They show that offences against Jews have … Continue reading
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JTA: Mindful of risks, European Jews urge aid to refugees
Nowhere in this story do I hear these pious Jewish leaders expressing concern about what a flood of Muslims into Europe will do to Europeans. All I hear is concern for the refugees and concern for Jews. But what about … Continue reading
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Sociologist James Petras Hates Jews
Anybody who’s a socialist before any other identity is going to hate nationalism, particularly ethno-nationalisms such as Zionism, because socialism, almost universally, has historically denied the importance of race and religion in favor of social class. Jews do best in … Continue reading
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Jews & Power
Jeff the Jew* emails: Dear Luke, You really have been posting up a storm since Shabbat ended. I do think that you are in error about Jewish history. Jews have not always for 2600 years been a reviled minority. After … Continue reading
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Jews & Women
For the past 2600 years (until recently), most Jews have lived as a minority in Gentiles countries. They’ve kept alive their tradition by constantly contrasting what is Jewish with what is goyish. When Jews say something is goyish, that’s never … Continue reading
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Should the Holocaust be the Moral Prism for all Questions About Diversity?
Steve Sailer writes: Muslim Mass Migration: Is It Good for the Jews? With Muslim terrorists committing anti-Semitic massacres in France and Denmark earlier this year, and Middle Eastern and African youths routinely harassing Jews on the street in European cities, … Continue reading
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