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Opinion Dear Stanford: Don’t Quiz Me on BDS Because I’m Jewish
Stanford’s Molly Horwitz, running for student senate, says she faced anti-Semitic questioning I am both a woman of color and a Jew. For much of my life, I struggled to embrace these identities. In high school people told me I was “not a real Latina” while also claiming it was my Hispanic ethnicity that got…
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Fast Forward Swastikas Scrawled on Dorm at U. of Missouri
Swastikas and anti-Semitic epithets were written in a stairwell of a dormitory at the University of Missouri in Columbia. The two incidents occurred on the morning of April 9 and the evening of April 10. No suspects have been identified. The writing was done in ash, such as from the end of a cigarette or…
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Opinion A Muslim Champion in the Fight Against Anti-Semitism
Siavosh Derakhti Siavosh Derakhti, a 23-year-old Swedish Muslim, seems an unlikely champion in the fight against anti-Semitism. But Derakhti, whose parents immigrated to Sweden from Iran, has been recognized for his work in combating hatred and bigotry. When he was 19, he founded Young Muslims Against Anti-Semitism, now known as Young People Against Anti-Semitism and…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Bosnian Soccer Fans Chant ‘Kill the Jews’
Fans of a Bosnian soccer team chanted anti-Semitic epithets in Vienna prior to a match with the Bosnia-Herzegovina team. The some 50 fans wearing team colors were seen in a video on YouTube among several dozen pro-Palestinian demonstrators at a central city plaza during a Tuesday protest, the Austrian newspaper Der Standard reported on Friday….
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Culture Alice in Anti-Semitic Land
● Lewis Carroll: The Man and His Circle By Edward Wakeling I. B. Tauris, 480 pages, $49 Most biographies of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, the English logician and Anglican deacon who signed “Alice in Wonderland” with the pen name Lewis Carroll, misunderstood their subject entirely. In his new book, Edward Wakeling persuasively argues that Carroll was…
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Opinion Take It from a Comedian — Trevor Noah Is No Anti-Semite
Trevor Noah / Getty Images Anti-Semitism is real. The fatal shootings at the Jewish Museum in Brussels, outside the JCC in Kansas, at the Paris kosher market, outside the Copenhagen synagogue — tragic and scary. Four jokes tweeted by Trevor Noah, who will replace Jon Stewart as host of the Daily Show? Not so much….
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Fast Forward Dutch Anti-Semitic Incidents Rise by 71%
The number of anti-Semitic incidents in the Netherlands rose last year by 71 percent, and some police officers are unwilling to intervene, the Jewish community’s watchdog on anti-Semitism said. The Hague-based Center for Information and Documentation on Israel, or CIDI, recorded 171 incidents in 2014 compared to 100 in 2013, CIDI wrote in a statement…
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Fast Forward Anti-Semitic Incidents Rise by 21%, ADL Says
Anti-Semitic incidents in the United States rose by 21 percent in 2014, according to the Anti-Defamation League’s annual audit of anti-Semitism. The organization counted 912 anti-Semitic incidents last year, up from 751 in 2013, with the period surrounding last summer’s Gaza war seeing a surge of incidents. The tally included 36 cases of assault or…
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