Emily Tamkin is a global affairs journalist. She is the author of The Influence of Soros and Bad Jews: A History of American Jewish Politics and Identities.
Emily TamkinContributing Columnist
By Emily Tamkin
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Opinion Passover teaches us why Jews should stand with Mahmoud Khalil
The story of the Exodus is one of Jews deciding to reject our role in a tyrant's narrative
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Opinion Is this extremist Zionist group trying to protect Israel — or just punish left-wing Jews?
Betar is trying to get certain U.S. Jews banned from Israel, just because of their politics
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Opinion Trump’s crusade against Columbia is ripped straight from Hungary’s anti-Soros playbook
Viktor Orbán went after a university founded by George Soros in ways that now look awfully familiar
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Opinion Thank god Trump didn’t talk about antisemitism in his speech to Congress
The president has no ground to stand on when it comes to claiming to fight Jew hatred
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Opinion Steve Bannon has given an old antisemitic trope a fresh ‘pro-Israel’ spin
Bannon claims American Jews are imperiling Israel — invoking a long history of canards questioning Jewish loyalty
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Opinion Don’t let Trump’s theatrics distract from the true horror of his plans for Gaza
When we give into the outrage machine, we can lose track of what really matters
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Opinion Why Israel should have little to do with Holocaust Remembrance Day
The memory of this atrocity doesn't belong to any one nation state
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Opinion As a new Trump administration begins, I’m looking to this Soviet Jewish dissident for guidance
If you're alarmed as I am by the new president's first actions in office, the rights-based dissident movement has lessons to share
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