Andrew Mark Bennett
By Andrew Mark Bennett
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Opinion For A Century, White Supremacists Have Smeared the ADL. Now, The Left Has Picked Up The Habit
The Anti-Defamation League is the world’s leading institution fighting anti-Semitism. But in 2018, it has fielded staunch criticism from the left as well as the right. The situation on the left came to a head in April, after two black men were arrested in a Philadelphia Starbucks for no reason other than being black. Starbucks…
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Opinion When Israel Shoots Unarmed Protestors, The Terrorists Win
When Palestinians mass at Israel’s border, a specific nightmare of history always comes to mind. Before I tell you, I must tell you about a two-year-old boy named Eyal. The idea of him reminds me of my own little boy. In truth Eyal was born even before I was, and his photograph is far more…
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Opinion What Americans – And Israelis – Don’t Understand About The IDF
Growing up in an American Jewish community, Israeli soldiers were superheroes. Israel’s miraculous victory against all odds in the Six-Day War cemented the image of the Israeli as the New Jew, concretized in the avatar of the Israeli soldier, who was brave, fierce, battle-hardened and nearly invincible. The Israeli soldier was a creature of myth….
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Opinion JVP’s Anti-Semitic Obsession With Jewish Power
Jewish Voice for Peace, the fringe anti-Israel group that supports the boycott of Israel, is back in the news again now that the Israeli government has officially banned its leaders from entering the Jewish state. Many supporters of Israel are viewing the ban as a sign of weakening democracy in Israel or a deepening divide…
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Opinion On The Anniversary Of Kristallnacht, Jewish Life In Berlin Is Flourishing
That Jews outside Germany relate to Germany primarily through the Holocaust is grating at times. As exceptional and devastating as that period was — and as much as it continues to shape the Jewish present and future — there is more to Germany than the Holocaust. This is true in terms extending beyond things Jewish, of course. Contemporary Germany…
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Opinion Why Stripping Non-Jews Of Their Israeli Citizenship Threatens Zionism
A recent story in Haaretz about Bedouins being stripped of their Israeli citizenship shocked readers. It seemed to confirm the worst suspicions about Israel and Zionism more generally, and at a time when it is disturbingly fashionable to equate Zionism as racism, the story could not be more relevant. Indeed, the story of the Bedouins…
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