The Charge of Anti-Semitism
They couldn’t have given the article a more pointed title. Publishing an AFP wire on Sunday morning entitled Macron condemns antisemitic abuse during gilets jaunes Paris protest, The Guardian waded...
View ArticleNot All Nationalists Are the Same
In a recent piece for LobeLog, I touched on the overtly racist Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power) party in Israel. Ever since it became clear that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was going to do...
View ArticleThe Ilhan Omar Effect
The House of Representatives, it was announced on Thursday evening, passed a resolution condemning “all forms of hatred.” On its face, there is much to recommend this. Who, after all, is not against...
View ArticleAIPAC Left Behind by New American Left
In 2014, a low-ranking Democratic Party official in New York City’s borough of Queens expressed sympathy with Palestinians during Operation Protective Edge, a move one party functionary called...
View ArticleThe Israel That Was
This has been the first time in the history of Israel that elections were held in conditions of war. On the eve of the elections, there was intensified military activity and there was great political...
View ArticleHitler Came From Austria
Many still consider it an accident that Nazi ideology centred around antisemitism and that Nazi policy, consistently and uncompromisingly, aimed at the persecution and finally the extermination of the...
View ArticleThe View From the Newsroom
“We changed the picture,” the Russian editor said over the messaging client from Brussels. “Jean is here, and he agrees. We substituted it for something more appropriate.” That something more...
View ArticleFacing Anti-Semitism to Fight It
Historically, anti-Semitism in France and Europe has its roots in the construction of a white and Christian European identity from which Jews are excluded. In the 19th century, anti-Semitism took the...
View ArticleAll-Inclusive Palestine
A Jewish army unconnected with Palestine is no concern of the Arabs in Palestine or of the Arab States. But will the Zionists be content with a Jewish army divorced from the Jewish National Home or...
View ArticleFollow the Leader
Before Fascism, no anti-Semitic parties or organisations existed in Italy. The most flagrantly anti-Semitic paper was La Vita Italians (Milan and Rome) which had few readers and little influence. Its...
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