Izabella Tabarovsky
By Izabella Tabarovsky
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Opinion Putin’s new propaganda campaign turns Jews into a prop
The use and abuse of the memory of the Holocaust for political aims, however shocking, is not new. Few seem able to resist the pull of such a stark morality tale of good vs. evil when constructing their own histories. Until recently, though, Russia was one of the few players in WWII who had managed…
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Opinion Senator Sanders, Fighting Anti-Semitism Requires Actions, Not Just Universalist Promises
You’d be excused if, like me, you felt as if Bernie Sanders‘s op-ed on Jews and anti-Semitism seemed oddly familiar. A hundred years ago, in a country far, far away, a group of left-wing revolutionaries sought to win over millions of Jews with their universalist message. Jews, they said, should give up their particularist concerns…
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Opinion I Used To Think Anti-Semitism Didn’t Exist, Then Pittsburgh Happened
The Pittsburgh Tree of Life synagogue shooting shook me out of my happy American life in which, I believed, anti-Semitism did not exist. Having emigrated to the United States from the Soviet Union in 1989, I believed we had left anti-Semitism behind for good. Did I simply not pay attention or are things really that…
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Opinion The Left Can No Longer Excuse Its Anti-Semitism
A couple of days into the social media storm that erupted following Israeli government’s decision not to let Representatives Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar enter the country, the two Congresswomen circulated a cartoon on their Instagram accounts, in Instagram stories, which disappear after 24 hours: The cartoon depicted Benjamin Netanyahu extending one blue-suited arm toward…
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Opinion Most Jews Weren’t Murdered In Death Camps. It’s Time To Talk About The Other Holocaust.
It was the tiny tallit that knocked the breath out of me. Slightly crumpled along the crease lines, as if just taken out of a closet where a loving mother had put it away after washing, it hung alone in its exhibit case at the Museum of Jewish Heritage’s new exhibit Auschwitz: Not long ago….
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Opinion We Soviet Jews Lived Through State-Sponsored Anti-Zionism. We Know How It Is Weaponized.
It’s 1988. My Dad and my teenage self are in our tiny Zhiguli car, stuck at a railway crossing in my Siberian home town of Novosibirsk. The road is narrow, the pavement is full of potholes. As the traffic begins to move, our car stalls in front of a massive Kamaz truck coming in the…
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