Posts Tagged: Benjamin Kerstein
Defining Antisemitism Down: American Jews Are Tolerating the Intolerable
Shortly before the recent terror attack on a synagogue in Manchester, England, writer Ashley Rindsberg, attending services at another British synagogue, was told by a...
Should We Impose a Fairness Doctrine on Academia?
JNS.org - One of the most pressing questions facing the United States, and especially the American Jewish community, is what should be done about academia. The...
Don’t Take Any Guff From These Swine …
JNS.org - “Don’t take any guff from these swine,” Hunter S. Thompson used to say, and not without reason. The legendary gonzo journalist found himself...
Celebrating the First Jewish Superman
JNS.org - I am not a comic book fan. I am not a superhero fan. I think comic book films are slowly demolishing whatever remains...
Abraham’s Sword
JNS.org - As the protests against the Israeli government’s judicial reforms continue and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu doubles down, I must confess to a feeling...
The Shudder of the New Aristocracy
JNS.org - In 1848, as Marx and Engels famously pointed out, communism was the specter haunting Europe. Today, populism is the specter haunting everybody. In...
The UN Goes All In on Antisemitism
JNS.org - This site was recently host to a deeply disturbing piece by Anne Bayefsky that dealt with the UN’s just-released “Report of the Independent...
Finally, CUNY’s Antisemitism Is in the Dock
JNS.org - It was the devout hope of many of us in the trenches that, sooner or later, the City University of New York (CUNY)...
The New Freud Revival Can Only Be Good for the Jews
JNS.org - Amid the unremittingly depressing developments coming out of an Israel roiled by domestic controversy and a seemingly unbridgeable political and cultural divide, it’s...
Impressions of an Israel Come Full Circle
JNS.org - “This could have ended in murder,” Sara Netanyahu said last week after being besieged for several hours at her Tel Aviv hairdresser by...
Taking Dark Comfort in an Israeli Arab’s New York Times Lament
JNS.org - As an Israeli-American Jew who has lived in Israel for 20 years, it was with a certain dark comfort that I read Israeli-Arab...
Deconstructing the Demonization of the ‘Settler’
JNS.org - The words “settlement” and “settler” have decidedly nasty connotations these days. I am not speaking only of the discourse on Israel and Zionism,...
Rashida Tlaib and the Coming Purge of Progressivism
JNS.org - Almost from its inception, American Jews have been associated with the progressive movement. For over 100 years, Jews have fought for social justice,...
Holocaust Denial and the Palestinians’ Original Sin
JNS.org - The reaction to Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas’s recent remarks about the Holocaust illustrates a strange phenomenon: Palestinian leaders say something horrific about...
