Fred Baumann
ARTICLES BY: Fred Baumann
SJP’s Blunder Exposes Its Antisemitism
I recall reading a snappy exchange in Auntie Mame, where Mame says “‘Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.’...
Resolution 2334 And The Feral Pack
Most of the commentary from those rightly horrified by the American abstention on Security Council Resolution 2334 has focused either on the perfidy of the...
Political Theater: Not Good for the Jews
It is a gloomy and perhaps futile business to explore in depth the causes for the inexplicable free ride that Israel-haters get on campuses. But recent...
Red, Green and Brown: Communists, Islamists, Nazis — and Jews
A recent letter published in The New York Times by a certain Naomi Dann, who represents Jewish Voice for Peace and who claims to speak...
The Cowardice of Decent Professors
Pro-Israel bloggers like William Jacobson and Caroline Glick have brought much attention to a fiasco at Syracuse University first reported by The Atlantic. The invitation...
BDS = ‘Don’t Buy From Jews’
A paper in Santa Monica, California published a piece of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) propaganda by someone called Kelley Hayes-Riatt. There was nothing remarkable...
The Conditioned Reflex
For those of us watching the rising tide of antisemitism, a tide which is slowly seeping in even over American shores, the problem of how...
Intellectual Antisemites and the Left
The great 20th century German philosopher Martin Heidegger’s antisemitism is an old problem. The 2014 publication of his private Black Notebooks re-awoke it. In them...