Edward Alexander
ARTICLES BY: Edward Alexander
Israel Apartheid Week: The Dirty Product of a Grotesque Alliance
The enemies of Israel neither slumber nor sleep. Right now they are engaged in "Israel Apartheid Week," spewing fire and vitriol at the Jewish...
Choose Your Side: The New York Times or Judaism
"How long halt ye between two opinions?" - 1 Kings 18:21 American Jewry is often said to be divided between those who judge Judaism by...
Kerry, Obama, and the Turkish Prime Minister
John Kerry's recent rebuke of Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan for "inflammatory verbal attacks on Israel" stands in sharp contrast to Barack Obama's long-established...
Cynthia Ozick and William Shakespeare on Judith Butler: Plus Ca Change, Plus C’est La Meme Chose
Will Judith Butler, who recently brought her frenzied campaign to expel Israel from the family of nations to Brooklyn College, be remembered as a latter-day...
Obama’s Call for “Peace in Our Time”: Some Aids to Reflection
In the context of his usual call for "engagement" (rather than war) with nations who harbor "suspicion and fear" of America, President Obama in his...
Antisemitism: A Specific Phenomenon (REVIEW)
Antisemitism: A Specific Phenomenon, by Clemens Heni (Berlin: Edition Critic, 2013). A publication of the Berlin International Center for the Study of Antisemitism. "As time...
“Some of My Best Friends are Antisemites”: Obama Nominates Hagel
"Europe's leaders—and all leaders—should strongly oppose antisemitism, which poisons public debates over the future of the Middle East." -President George W....
Jewish Israel-Haters Convert their Dead Grandmothers: A New Mormonism?
"Who is a Jew? A Jew is someone with Jewish grandchildren." -- Yosef Haim Brenner In February of this year, Elie Wiesel asked Mitt Romney to urge...
The Prague Cemetery, by Umberto Eco (REVIEW)
The Prague Cemetery, by Umberto Eco, trans. Richard Dixon (HoughtonMifflinHarcourt, 2011). The center of this novel is The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a...
American Hebrew Literature, by Michael Weingrad (REVIEW)
American Hebrew Literature, by Michael Weingrad (Syracuse University Press, 2011). Lost causes, forsaken beliefs, impossible loyalties! How many of these figure in, and sometimes disfigure, Jewish...
John Lennon and the Jews: A Philosophical Rampage (REVIEW)
John Lennon and the Jews: A Philosophical Rampage, by Ze'ev Maghen (Amazon.com, 2011). Gershom Scholem, the Leviathan of Jewish mysticism and influential professor at Hebrew...
Genocidal Liberalism: The University’s Jihad Against Israel & Jews (REVIEW)
Genocidal Liberalism: The University's Jihad Against Israel & Jews, by Richard L. Cravatts. Sherman Oaks, CA: David Horowitz Freedom Center, 2012. By locating a...
Brothers at War: Israel and the Tragedy of the Altalena (REVIEW)
Brothers at War: Israel and the Tragedy of the Altalena, by Jerold Auerbach, (New Orleans, LA: Quid Pro Books, 2011). MILCHEMET ACHIM!—Brothers at war!—is a...
Obama and Clinton in Defense of Islam
On June 4, 2009, addressing an audience in Cairo, Egypt, Barack Obama declared that "America is not—and never will be—at war with Islam" and that...
