Edward Alexander
ARTICLES BY: Edward Alexander
The New Iconoclasm: Down With Jefferson, Up With Sharpton
Rarely a week passes without dramatic pictures on TV and in the press of sledgehammers taken to heroes of the Old Confederacy, along with new...
Remembering the Great Jewish Historian Gertrude Himmelfarb
Gertrude Himmelfarb, prolific historian of the Victorian period, professor emeritus of history at City University of New York, graduate of New Utrecht High School in...
American Pogrom
The recent mini-pogroms — in New York, New Jersey, and elsewhere — have, it would appear, been carried out in substantial part by African-Americans, including...
Senators Sanders and Warren Offer ‘The Squad’ Squalid Middle East Peace Plans
"In the warmest of human hearts," the socialist Irving Howe once wrote, "there is always a cold spot for the Jews." The plans which socialist...
Britain’s Academic Left Expunges Jews From the Holocaust
The late Lucy Dawidowicz once referred, decades ago in a letter to me, to the widespread practice of stealing the Holocaust from its European Jewish...
Al Sharpton and the Decline of the Democrats
In recent months, most of the contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination, ever zealous for (bad) new causes, have displayed an oily sycophancy towards the...
Kamala Harris’ ‘Victory’ Over Joe Biden
The left flank of the Democratic Party, as ignorant as it is dogmatic, has been crowing over Kamala Harris' "victory" over Joe Biden in the...
How the Israeli Left Lost It
Review of The Crack-Up of the Israeli Left by Mordechai Nisan, Canada: Mantua Books. “When It comes to defaming Jews, the Palestinians are pisherkes [pipsqueaks] next to...
How Should We Spell ‘Antisemitism’?
In 1977 I attended a meeting with Yehuda Bauer, the preeminent Israeli Holocaust scholar, and the late Naomi Pascal, then a main editor of the...
The Democrats’ Real Antisemitism Problem: Bernie Sanders
“Antisemitism is no longer a problem, fortunately. It’s raised because privileged people want to make sure they have total control, not just 98 percent control....
Journalism’s Longest War: The New York Times Versus Zionism and Israel
Review: Jerold S. Auerbach, Print to Fit: The New York Times, Zionism and Israel: 1896-2016. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2019. It has long been a commonplace...
O Brave New (Repaired) World
Jonathan Neumann’s new book To Heal the World?: How the Jewish Left Corrupts Judaism and Endangers Israel is a scathing analysis of the pseudo-religion of “tikkun...
Sex, Politics, and Judith Butler at NYU
A few days ago, I happened upon a letter of August 17 in the Chronicle of Higher Education calling upon Professor Judith Butler to step down...
‘Pinkwashing’? Seattle vs. Israel
In 2012, a long-planned visit approved by Seattle's then-mayor and the city's LGBTQ Commission of a LGBTQ delegation from Israel was cancelled a day before...
