Posts Tagged: Jews
Jews as Racial Villains: From Jewish Blackness to Jewish Whiteness
It was less than a century ago that white-presenting Jews were defined as Black. White supremacist arbiters of whiteness -- in an obsession with racial...
American Jews Need Wait No Longer, the Barbarians Have Arrived
“It is night, and the barbarians have not arrived,” the great modern Greek poet C. F. Cavafy’s “Waiting for the Barbarians” concludes. “And some people...
Social Justice Includes Support for Israel
W.E.B. Du Bois once spoke of a “double-consciousness” felt by Black people in the United States. Even when accepted by white society, he argued that Black Americans...
The Woke Mob and Critical Race Theory Come for the Jews
You have to marvel at the resilience of Jew-hatred. Like a highly contagious retrovirus and its variants, antisemitism has the uncanny ability to evolve with...
We Must Renew Black-Jewish Brotherhood
With friction between the Black and Jewish communities rising again, it’s time to renew African-American and Jewish bonds of brotherhood. While our problems regarding COVID-19 remain...
Our Shared Human Fraternity Against Racism and Extremism
The United Nations General Assembly, in a unanimous vote, declared February 4 as the “International Day of Human Fraternity.” The date commemorates the signing of...
Why Are Jews Seen as ‘White’?
As critics have noted, American Jews today are often characterized as "white" when talking about race. Not only is this narrative inaccurate -- it's also...
Blaming Jews for Everything — and the ‘Big Lie’ About the Election
Jews are “the father of all wars.” From The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, to Henry Ford’s The International Jew, to right-wing prophet David...
Raising My Jewish Son to Learn It’s Good to Be Different
Last week, my firstborn, five-year-old son declared in a rather ominous tone, “Santa isn’t real.” Normally this would inspire dread in a mother’s heart, but...
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...
Remember the Past, but Strive for a Better Future
I have been reading a book about the Hundred Years’ War between France and England by Jonathan Sumption, the well-known and controversial former member of...
We Should Embrace Being the Chosen People
"Imagine." It is John Lennon’s most iconic song. The music video begins evocatively with John and Yoko walking through the mist in their large garden....
Op-Ed Promotes Lie That Israel Is a ‘White’ Country
The basic premise of a 3,100 word op-ed in the Independent (“‘No one talks about this’: The plight of black people in the Middle East”)...
Can Calls for Unity and Moderation Unite Divided Societies?
JNS.org - It says something about the state of Israeli society that a speech containing many platitudes and little in the way of practical suggestions...
