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.
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By Emily Tamkin
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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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Opinion This hostage deal is Biden’s victory. It’s also Biden’s shame.
The sitting president put months of work into this deal, but he also let this war drag on, and on, and on
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