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Category Archives: Anti-Semitism
Billy Joel’s ‘Only The Good Die Young’
Comments at Steve Sailer: * Joel claims he wrote the song about a real girl he tried to bed when he was a teenager. * First four verses: I want to get in your pants, Virginia, please discard your silly … Continue reading
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Why The Jews? The Reasons For Anti-Semitism
Comments at Steve Sailer: * Postville. Sholom Rubashkin. You have a functioning high trust community of generally solid citizens and decent people. Some Jew comes in and turns it into a globo pigsty full of Mexicans and Somalis precisely because … Continue reading
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Shorter Tablet: Jews Are The Establishment And Therefore Have The Most To Lose From Anti-Establishment Politics
David Mikics writes for Tablet: Along with the Soviet Union’s accusation that Zionism is racism, the left has inherited the Communist Party’s “politics of position,” as David Hirsh calls it in his new book Contemporary Left Antisemitism. What you are … Continue reading
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The Guardian: ‘The rise of antisemitism in Australia has a distinctly American tone’
The Guardian: A few years ago, I sat in the office of a rabbi in Perth discussing the state of the local Jewish community. The rabbi spoke with effusive pride at the academic success of the city’s Jewish high school, … Continue reading
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New Yorker: ‘Birth of a White Supremacist – Mike Enoch’s transformation from leftist contrarian to nationalist shock jock’
I have many Jewish friends who find gentile nationalisms, particularly white nationalism, terrifying. Nationalism means that you are devoted to your people. Jews are devoted to their people. Why shouldn’t goyim be devoted to their people? To me, it’s not … Continue reading
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Dennis Ross: “Memories of an Anti-Semitic State Department”
Steve Sailer writes: A common theme in respectable discourse at present is that the selfish career ambitions of individual white men must often take a back seat to broader societal goals such as diversity, social justice, inclusion, fighting cultural appropriation, … Continue reading
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Ex-CIA Philip Giraldi: ‘America’s Jews Are Driving America’s Wars – Shouldn’t they recuse themselves when dealing with the Middle East?’
Valerie Plame retweeted a link to this article. I’m afraid that just yelling “anti-Semitism” does not shut down conversation like it used to. Alan Dershowitz writes: Valerie Plame had to know what she was doing. The unmasked former CIA officer … Continue reading
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Making Sense of the Alt Right by George Hawley
Here are selections from this superb new book: * Given everything that occurred in 2016, most observers can be forgiven for failing to note one additional bizarre moment when, in late August, Clinton experienced one of the weirdest examples of … Continue reading
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Parasha Ki Teitzei
This week’s Torah portion consists of Deuteronomy 21:10–25:19. Listen here and here. * You can take a woman captive and make her your wife, but first you have to let her shave her head and mourn her family for 30 … Continue reading
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NYT: Sunday Times of London Fires Writer Over Article Called Anti-Semitic
How many writers have been fired for articles called anti-Gentilic? New York Times: DUBLIN — The Sunday Times of London has fired the writer of an op-ed article denouncing the campaign by women of the British Broadcasting Corporation for equal … Continue reading
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