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Opinion On Election Eve, I Called Out Anti-Semitism Among Trump Supporters. Their Response? More Anti-Semitism.
During the days leading up to the election, and certainly during the day itself, there was a lot to be nervous about as a Jewish journalist. Trump’s supporters, especially those on the so-called “alt-right”, have taken it upon themselves to ramp up hateful, odious anti-semitism against Jewish journalists to a degree unprecedented in recent memory….
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Opinion Roy Cohn and the Shocking Jewish Mentorship That Created Donald Trump
Lurking behind the obvious query of how in the world Donald Trump became an actual candidate for the presidency of the United States, there’s a more basic question: Where in the world did this man come from? How did he become the walking caricature that he is today? One answer that’s frequently given is his…
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Opinion Why Pamela Geller’s Hate Speech Should Be Barred — But BDS Allowed
When it comes to Israel, freedom of speech has become its own battleground. We’ve seen plenty of it in New York already in 2013. Progressive groups defended a talk at Brooklyn College by two Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) activists in February, and right-wingers rallied around anti-Muslim blogger Pamela Geller this week. The two episodes…
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Culture Passover, the Warsaw Ghetto, Sigmund Freud, and the Psychology of Bigotry
Even as it was happening, some appear to have understood the Holocaust as a new chapter in the old biblical story of the Exodus: The uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto began, history books tell us, on Passover eve, April 1943. The Passover holiday has certainly apprehended that history in hindsight. In their meditations on the…
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