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Opinion Who Gets To Define Anti-Semitism?
A couple of weeks ago, I attended a meeting on a local college campus for Students for Justice in Palestine. As it came out that I was both a Zionist but also sympathetic to the Palestinian plight, I received dozens of questions from students asking how I could hold these two “incompatible” ideas. I spent…
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Opinion Fighting Anti-Semitism Isn’t Just About Jews. It Kills Non-Jews, Too.
Anti-Semitism kills. Racism kills. Islamophobia kills. Homophobia kills. Bigotry kills. Each of these forms of bias uproots lives, devastates families, and destroys dreams. They kill violently and they kill painfully. Most shockingly of all, they kill indiscriminately. As a Jewish community, we fight anti-Semitism not only to protect ourselves, and not only to protect the…
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Fast Forward The Belgian Guys Who Made The Anti-Semitic Carnival Float Aren’t Sorry
(JTA) — I initially had some sympathy for the creators of an anti-Semitic carnival float in Belgium. Studying their CVs and past creations for the annual carnival of Aalst, I saw that they were a group of some 20 upstanding citizens — a fireman, a technician, an Education Ministry official and a police department employee,…
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Fast Forward The Ilhan Omar Controversy: What Is Happening?
The latest talk on Capitol Hill is about Representative Ilhan Omar and her most recent controversial comments, which have been called anti-Semitic. The comments led to a backlash, which led to the drafting of a resolution, which led to more backlash, which led to…there’s been a lot to keep up with. Where did it begin?…
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Opinion We Soviet Jews Lived Through State-Sponsored Anti-Zionism. We Know How It Is Weaponized.
It’s 1988. My Dad and my teenage self are in our tiny Zhiguli car, stuck at a railway crossing in my Siberian home town of Novosibirsk. The road is narrow, the pavement is full of potholes. As the traffic begins to move, our car stalls in front of a massive Kamaz truck coming in the…
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Opinion I’m A Jewish Teenager. Anti-Semitism Has Infiltrated My Hometown.
The truth is, when I opened my Snapchat to an image of teenagers from a local high school throwing up a Hitler salute around a swastika made out of red-solo-cups, I wasn’t even surprised. See, it wasn’t the first time anti-Semitism infiltrated my community. Just weeks before, after my school’s soccer team beat a rival…
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Opinion 2020 Democratic Hopefuls Didn’t Abandon Israel. They Abandoned Jews
The American left has entered a period of overcorrection on Israel. If for a while there was the impression that criticizing Israel would get you branded an anti-Semite, we have now officially entered the territory where saying anti-Semitic things will be sanctioned by the left as long as they relate, however circuitously, to Israel. Nothing…
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Opinion The Jews Are Tired.
I’ve become convinced that the most important image of early twenty-first century Jewry is a screengrab from YouTube purportedly taken from an introductory Yiddish lesson. “The Jews are tired,” it says. And right now, just this very moment, we’re not just tired. We’re exhausted. It’s never easy being a Jew, but at this moment, stuck…
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