Karol Markowicz
By Karol Markowicz
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Opinion While The Left And Right Point Fingers, No One Is Fighting Anti-Semitism
It’s not easy being hated. With every Jewish holiday, we tell our kids the stories — of these people or those — who have tried to kill us all. But they lost! We’re still here! So we rejoice and eat but never, ever forget. But we do forget. It’s easy to forget. We live here,…
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Opinion Trump Just Revealed He Can Change. Will Jews Listen?
On Tuesday, President Trump addressed the nation with his second State Of The Union address. His supporters loved the speech. His detractors hated it. Nancy Pelosi’s sarcastic-seeming clap became a gif. #waybackwednesday – oh yes that clap took me back to the teen years. She knows. And she knows that you know. And frankly she’s…
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Opinion Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is The Donald Trump Of The Left
It’s the age of identity on the left. But the lines of what that entails change daily. On one hand, your identity at birth is paramount. Intersectionality could not exist without it. Your sex, your race, your religion, your sexuality, it all plays a part in what claim to victimhood you can stake. On the…
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Opinion The Democratic Party Is Becoming The Party Of BDS. Will Liberal Jews Speak Up?
Will the Jewish left ever speak up for Israel? The Intercept recently reported that Congresswoman-elect Rashida Tlaib would forego the traditional AIPAC trip to Israel, choosing instead to lead a delegation to the West Bank. “I want us to see that segregation and how that has really harmed us being able to achieve real peace…
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Opinion Democrats Won. So Why Are They Crying ‘No Fair’?
In regular times, what happened last night would put a bounce in the step of members of both parties. There was something for everyone. Neither party had a giant night but neither party took a shellacking either. It should have been a moment of happiness for both sides. But we’re not in regular times. The…
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Opinion Stop Blaming Trump For Anti-Semitism. It Lets The Anti-Semites Off The Hook.
After Pittsburgh, with 11 Jews dead, the recriminations began swiftly. The moment should have been about community and togetherness. Instead it became about finding someone to blame for anti-Semitism. The finger was pointed at President Donald Trump. The progressive group Bend the Arc issued a statement telling Trump he’s “not welcome in Pittsburgh.” The story…
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Opinion Why Does The Left Give Louis Farrakhan A Pass?
It has been a month of purging on Twitter. Accounts of well-known conservatives, whose rhetoric has been deemed unacceptable, were shut down with no notice or explanation. GayPatriot, RightWingNews, and Gavin McInnes all were disappeared. Dd they all tweet something beyond the pale? It’s possible. But no one could point to exactly what. The email…
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Opinion Why Do Politicians Keep Lying About Their Heritage?
After years of deferring — and being mocked for it by President Donald Trump — Senator Elizabeth Warren released her genetic results via a hazy campaign-style video on Monday. My family (including Fox News-watchers) sat together and talked about what they think of @realDonaldTrump’s attacks on our heritage. And yes, a famous geneticist analyzed my…
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