Soros has become the leading avatar of right-wing conspiracy theories that veer into anti-Semitism.
The notion that Jews may have prevented the Holocaust had they been armed, popular in some pro-gun circles, has been debunked by historians.
The new HBO film “Confirmation” re-examines the saga of Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill, once again exposing some inconvenient truths about the way politics was and still is played in America. Author Erik Tarloff presides.
Who remembers where they were during Anita Hill’s testimony in Senate confirmation hearings for her former boss, Justice Clarence Thomas? I recall being riveted by her 1991 testimony and thinking that surely it would jettison Thomas’ nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Like Hinda Mandell, I experienced the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas hearings at a formative moment of my childhood. The entire spectacle of the trial made a really strong impression on me and the ensuing “Year of the Woman” helped turn me into a budding self-identified feminist — walking around my Jewish day school with Barbara Boxer and Diane Feinstein buttons affixed to my shirt, and a neon pink “Choice” hat atop my head.
Apparently there’s no statute of limitation on scandals. Nineteen years after Anita Hill testified before the U.S. Senate that Clarence Thomas sexually harassed her, the Supreme Court Justice Thomas’s wife wants Hill to apologize.