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Even if the Capital Jewish Museum shooter ‘did it for Gaza,’ his actions were antisemitic
Expressions of pro-Palestinian solidarity do not erase the suspect's anti-Jewish hatred
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Opinion How anti-Israel rhetoric led to the killing of 2 in Washington, DC
The suspected murderer marinated in violent, hateful slogans
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Opinion We are Jewish students from universities Trump is targeting. He’s not protecting us
Democracy, not deportations, protect Jewish students from antisemitism
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Letters Contrary to recent op-ed’s conclusions, ADL report on antisemitism on Wikipedia is accurate
A historian disputes his former co-author's characterization of ADL report
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Opinion A century ago, Hitler declared war on the ‘lying press’ and targeted a feisty little newspaper — sound familiar?
In the 1920s and ’30s, Germans failed to heed the warnings of the Münchener Post
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Opinion Two writers offer strikingly different views of the ‘state of the Jews’
Dan Senor and Eric Alterman lay out visions of the Jewish present and future that are diametrically opposed and in some ways complementary
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Opinion Anti-Israel rhetoric is fueling an alarmingly powerful new wave of antisemitism on the right
And Trump's changed attitude to Israel is only the first consequence
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Opinion Is Wikipedia a cesspool of antisemitism? Don’t trust the ADL’s answer.
The ADL misinterpreted my research to denounce the crowdsourced online encyclopedia
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Opinion Edan Alexander’s release was the last good news we’ll get from wartime Israel
I celebrated my fellow Tenafly native's freedom. But there are too many reasons to believe the future for other hostages is bleak.
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Opinion Critics of Trump’s US Holocaust Memorial Council firings run the risk of trivializing the cataclysm
A former council member says the firings shouldn’t be lamented as though they reflect Nazi-like oppression
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Opinion Netanyahu got his own son’s name wrong — was this a trivial mistake or a revealing Freudian slip?
When the Israeli prime minister called his son 'Avraham,' he called up images of one of the Torah's most terrifying moments
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