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  Your Focus on Las Vegas Victim’s Beauty Is Offensive

  To the Forward, Of course I have every sympathy for the victims of the Las Vegas shooting. But when I read the line about what a young man told his Jewish mother when he met his wife for the first time (“She’s so beautiful, I can’t believe she’s Jewish!”), I couldn’t believe I was reading…

  By Janine Baer

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  Yes, Milo Yiannopoulos Promoted The Alt Right — But The PC Police Helped

  This week, Buzzfeed published a 9,000-word exposé about former Breitbart News star and professional troll Milo Yiannopoulos. The story details his campaign to promote the repugnant movement known as the alt-right. It also contains details to shock even those who already think the worst of both Yiannopoulos and Breitbart News. Who’d have guessed, for instance,…

  By Cathy Young Oct 6, 2017 | 6 min read
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  Harvey Weinstein’s ‘Casting Couch’ Sexual Harrassment Was Never Ok

  Within Harvey Weinstein’s incoherent statement of apology in the New York Times Friday after he was accused of being a serial sexual harasser of women, among the clumsily misquoted Jay-Z lyrics was an implicit justification for his actions: “I came of age in the 60’s and 70’s, when all the rules about behavior and workplaces…

  By Caty Simon Oct 6, 2017 | 4 min read

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  Calling Las Vegas Shooter ‘Evil’ Lets Trump and Republicans Off The Hook

  A week has now passed since Stephen Paddock murdered 58 men and women, and wounded nearly 500, at a country music concert in Las Vegas. Having searched Paddock’s home and computer, questioned his girl friend and family members, state and federal officials remain flummoxed over the killer’s motivation. Predictably, President Trump has answers where others…

  By Robert Zaretsky Oct 6, 2017 | 3 min read
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  What Dennis Ross Gets Wrong About the ‘Israel Lobby’

  Critics of my writings on the “Israel lobby” (some of them co-authored with Professor John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago) typically misrepresent our arguments, and they sometimes accuse us of saying the opposite of what we actually wrote. Because these critics cannot refute our case with facts or logic, they typically erect a straw-man…

  By Stephen M. Walt Oct 6, 2017 | 4 min read
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  Zionism Is a Right, Not a Threat

  Dear Editor, The religion I grew up with always included “Next year in Jerusalem” in EVERY Sabbath service. EVERY SINGLE ONE. The idea that Zioness could be threatening to anyone is absurd and misogynistic. If Linda Sarsour felt threatened it is her own paranoia, especially since she is a supporter of Sharia law which is…

  By Dorothy Pruss Nicolazzo Oct 6, 2017 | < 1 min read
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  JVP’s Attack on Zioness Exposes Their Fear at Our Success

  Dear Editor, In an article published in these pages on Wednesday, Alissa Wise, the Deputy Director of Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), attacked the Zioness Movement, a new group made up of those of us who seek to pursue social justice while also embracing our Zionist identities. Wise’s piece misrepresents both Amanda Berman and our…

  By Chloe Valdary and Michael Basch Oct 5, 2017 | 2 min read
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  Can You Be A Zionist And Fight For Racial Justice?

  To the Editor: Unfortunately I was not able to go to the March for Racial Justice on Sunday, but I did read the article discussing the role of Zionists in fighting racism. Although I do not wish to paint all Zionists with the brush of universal racism or deny that some may oppose anti-black or…

  By Ellen Isaacs Oct 4, 2017 | < 1 min read
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  Smearing Linda Sarsour Is The Opposite Of Fighting For Racial Justice

  Linda Sarsour is many things. As she often introduces herself, she’s unapologetically Muslim-American, Palestinian-American and from Brooklyn, New York. And she’s also a critical leader in the fight against all forms of oppression, including anti-Semitism. Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), of which I am the Deputy Director, recently released an anthology called On Antisemitism. In…

  By Alissa Wise Oct 4, 2017 | 3 min read
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  Bertrand Russell: Are Old Men Fit To Rule The World?

  This article was published in English-language supplement of the Forverts on September 10, 1927. Ever since, at the age of fifteen, I read “” in an unexpurgated edition, I have found it difficult not to see men as Yahoos. Especially difficult it is when the men are old. It is a well—known fact that many…

  By Bertrand Russell Oct 4, 2017 | 5 min read
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  The Literary Intermarriage Between Bertrand Russell And The Forward

  Bertrand Russell wrote 51 articles for the English-language supplement of the Jewish Daily Forward—a significant output, even for a writer so prolific. The association was productive but short lived, spanning just four-and-a-half unsettled years of inter-war history. His first submission, in May 1926 attacked the British Government’s handling of a bitter labour dispute that culminated…

  By Andrew G. Bone Oct 4, 2017 | 3 min read