Posts Tagged: Ben Cohen Anti-Semitism
J’Accuse! Our Dreyfus and Theirs
JNS.org - Two months after its shellacking in the United Kingdom’s general elections, the Labour Party continues to remind British voters of why they chose...
Blaming Antisemitism on Capitalism
JNS.org - It is progress of sorts. This week, one of the leading magazines of the American left published an article that took the phenomenon...
Can UK Labour Overcome Antisemitism After Corbyn?
JNS.org - History will not be kind to Jeremy Corbyn, the vanquished and soon-to-be former leader of the opposition British Labour Party. Having been trounced by...
Belgium’s Carnival of Hatred Is Still Going Strong
JNS.org - A few years ago, I was paying for some items at a large department store in the Netherlands when I was startled by...
Polish Antisemitism Is Serious, but Yair Lapid Is Overreaching
JNS.org - Over the last year, Yair Lapid, the co-chair of Israel’s opposition Blue and White Party, has made several outspoken statements about Poland, Polish...
Passover: When Jews Stepped Into History on Our Terms
JNS.org - In his important book Power and Powerlessness in Jewish History, the historian David Biale noted that the very first ancient Egyptian reference to...
‘Institutionally Antisemitic’: The British Labour Party’s Cautionary Tale
JNS.org - There is, in Britain, a long tradition of holding public inquiries to establish the facts and learn the appropriate lessons from a host...
‘Anti-Zionism’ Without the Hyphen
JNS.org - To hyphenate or not to hyphenate? One of the more enduring debates among scholars of antisemitism is whether to include a hyphen in the...
‘What Must Be Said:’ An Enduring Antisemitic Trope
JNS.org - When the late German writer Günter Grass decided, seven years ago, to publicly denounce Israel as the greatest threat to the planet’s existence,...
Behind Europe’s Antisemitism ‘Perception Gap’
JNS.org - A comprehensive survey of European attitudes to antisemitism released this month by the European Union displays what its authors call a “perception gap.”...
Know Your Enemy: Jeremy Corbyn’s Brexit Test
JNS.org - They used to call them “pea-soupers”: dense, choking fogs caused by smoke from burning coal that frequently enveloped London until the middle of...
‘Antisemitism Upholds White Supremacy’
JNS.org - On a sunny afternoon last Tuesday in Pittsburgh, about 200 demonstrators gathered outside the JCC in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood, a short distance...
Soviet Antisemitism in a British Guise
JNS.org - It’s back. The “it” I refer to is a phenomenon pretty much unknown to newer generations of Jews in terms of direct experience, but it...
Vanessa Redgrave: Still Hating After All These Years
JNS.org - The spectacle of thespians making political interventions is rarely a dignified one. But that hasn’t stopped Hollywood’s elite from radical posturing. From the old...
