Misogynistic influencers are dabbling in antisemitism. In a sense, it’s more of the same
Antisemitism offers the same thing as misogyny does: An easy explanation
Antisemitism offers the same thing as misogyny does: An easy explanation
(JTA) — Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who is said to be preparing to become a Democratic presidential candidate, apologized for using “disrespectful” language about women. Bloomberg, who is Jewish, apologized through a spokesman in a New York Times article published Thursday. “Mike has come to see that some of what he has said…
Earlier today, the following advert started making the rounds on social media: In time for ‘yeshiva week’, winter vacation from yeshiva day schools, this kosher restaurant in New Jersey posted an online advertisement for mid-winter specials. The only thing notable about it was the amount of misogyny they could fit onto one leaflet. Residents of…
Misogyny and white supremacy are intertwined ideologies, a new report by the Anti-Defamation League explains. The organization considers misogyny a “dangerous and underestimated component of extremism,” and the report marks the start of an investigation into how various groups within the white supremacy view fester a hatred of women. After all, the ADL argues, it’s…
One morning when I was 15 years old, a junior in high school, I decided to straighten my hair. This was a big deal; I was in a sweatshirt phase, having decided that the speediest way to deal with not having what I thought of as traditional good looks was to ignore my looks altogether….
“The British elections should be a lesson for the Democratic Party,” Sen. Bernie Sanders wrote in The New York Times less than a week after race ended. Never mind that the left-wing Labour Party actually lost to the Conservative Party, much like Hillary Clinton defeated Sanders himself in the Democratic primaries. The American left, he…
Yeshiva University men beware: What’s said on your campus might not stay there. Since November, a student at the university, one of Orthodoxy’s flagship institutions, has been using a Facebook page to document incidents of racism, misogyny and homophobia on the New York City campus. Or, as the page puts it: “real things said by…
On Jezebel, classics scholar Donna Zuckerberg (who happens to be Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s sister) raises an important question: “[W]hy have so many white, male leaders of communities and websites that used to focus on sex and gender shifted in recent months to anti-Semitism, white nationalism, and complaining about “(((the media)))”? In part, of course,…
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