Posts Tagged: Jew-hatred
‘Catastrophic’: Top German Official Combating Antisemitism Attacks Decision to Allow Bavarian Deputy PM to Remain in Office
The German federal government's top official tasked with combating antisemitism has strongly criticized the decision of Bavaria's prime minister to allow his deputy — accused...
A Campaign Against Jew Haters That Actually Worked
Since I started writing about antisemitism about a decade ago, I’ve had trouble answering one question: Why are Jews, who excel in fields from literature...
See No Evil: Are Media Letting Neo-Nazi Goyim Defense League off the Hook?
On November 17, 2022, in remarks that went largely unreported outside of Jewish and Israeli media, FBI Director Christopher Wray warned that the prevalence of...
In Letter to Twitter’s Elon Musk 180 NGOs, Civil Rights Groups Call For Adoption of the IHRA Definition of Antisemitism
In a joint effort, a group of 180 NGOs and civil rights groups from around the world have signed a letter calling on Elon Musk,...
Freud, Psychoanalysis and Judaism
What does it mean that psychoanalysis was founded by a Jew? Why stop there? What does it mean that special relativity (Einstein); sociology (Durkheim); cultural anthropology...
‘Jewish Nose’ Jokes Aren’t Funny; They’re Dangerous
A political candidate in Virginia, a television game show host, and a Washington, DC, historian seem to think that jokes about “Jewish noses” are funny....
The Obligation to Remember, Even on a Day When We Look Inward
JNS.org - It comes in a part of the Yom Kippur service that even many of those who are more than three-day-a-year synagogue-goers often skip...
An Appeal to Politicians, Journalists, and Scholars: Stop Excusing Jew Haters
The spectrum of antisemitism is widening. The call for murder, which is what modern antisemitism amounts to, is also becoming louder. On the left, on...
We Are Entering a New Era of Jew Hatred
In the West, we are seeing the beginning of a new phase of discrimination against Jews. Many cannot openly identify as Jews without fear of...
Webinar: Fighting Jew Hatred Means Going After Groups, Factually and Financially
JNS.org - The best chance to fight antisemitism in the United States is by elucidating the connections between the hatred of Jews and anti-American sentiments,...
Now Is the Time to Defeat Antisemitism Once and for All
Whether it is intimidation of Jews on college campuses, institutional antisemitism in the UK’s Labour Party, or the corona-fueled resurgence of ancient anti-Jewish canards, antisemitism...
Why Isn’t Antisemitism Treated Like Other Forms of Bigotry?
I’ve been binging on The West Wing, and there was an episode where the president’s assistant gives him the gift of a map of Palestine...
Antisemitism Is Thriving, and Coronavirus Will Fuel Its Growth
I got called a lampshade on Twitter the other night. I was called this hateful epithet by an anonymous defender of Giovanni Gasparro, the Italian artist...
The Nexus Between Anti-Judaism and Antisemitism
In Civilization and Its Discontents (1930), Freud evoked the historic architecture of Rome in order to explain the structure of the human mind. What if...