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Opinion Why Do I Suddenly Like Ben Shapiro, Even Though I Hate His Politics?
The other day I happened to catch an interview with a very conservative pundit, Ben Shapiro, formerly of Breitbart News. He resigned after a Breitbart reporter was aggressively grabbed at a Donald Trump rally and the Breitbart organization, instead of defending its reporter, attacked the reporter for creating an incident that supposedly never happened. The…
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Community Can Silence Be Courageous?
In her essay “The Cowardly Reasons Jewish Organizations Won’t Speak up against Trump Appointees,” Dr. Lila Corwin Berman speaks powerfully about a moment of moral failure in the Jewish community. If her critique is right, Jewish leaders today are repeating one of the worst mistakes of history: saying and doing nothing in the face of…
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Fast Forward European Governments Failing To Report Hate Crimes: ADL
— The “overwhelming majority” of participating countries in the world’s largest regional security group, the Organization for Society and Cooperation in Europe, are not adequately reporting hate crimes, according to a new report. Of the 57 countries in the OSCE — its participating states are located in North America, Europe and Asia — 41 submitted official…
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Community Sorry, Jews — Voting With Your Feet Is Not An Option in the Age of Trump.
Some on the left have long fantasized about moving to Canada if Trump won. However, as John Oliver quipped, the only reason to move to Canada is a) you were born there, ** b)** you’re a goose, and c) it’s springtime. Foot voting is not a solution for democracy. Foot voting is an inherently selfish…
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Opinion Don’t Just Fear the ‘Alt-Right.’ Stop It.
The “alt-right” has become thinking America’s bogeyman. I’m not the only one who is scared. Scared of the swift way that this grab bag collection of white nationalists has morphed from a fringe movement largely confined to the internet to a group whose latest annual conference drew significant news coverage. Scared of its encroachment into…
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Slideshows When Haters Draw Their Swastikas Wrong
Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential race has seen a spike in hate crimes and the appearance of swastikas — on synagogues, houses and storefronts — to a degree they haven’t been seen before. There’s not much that’s funny about this. Anti-semitic vandalism has to be taken seriously, and we still live in a time when…
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Fast Forward New York No. 1 Subway Hit With Swastikas and ‘White Power’ Graffiti
The country’s post-election hate crime wave again visited itself upon New York last weekend, after the discovery of swastikas and other white supremacist graffiti on the inside of a subway car in Manhattan, according to a Monday report in DNAInfo. In addition to the swastikas, the scrawlings on the No. 1 train featured the “white…
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Life Should We Separate ‘Real’ Bigotry from the Armchair Variety?
At Mother Jones, Kevin Drum wondered why everyone’s talking about “white supremacy” these days, rather than just talking about “racism.” Had he wondered this, oh, I don’t know, in June, this might have been a contrarian but useful point: In one understanding “white supremacy” is the entire system, encompassing everything from racist beauty standards to…
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