Posts Tagged: Jews
Sports, Moral Education, and the NFL
Sports have always played an integral role in modern life, connecting popular culture with patriotism and nationalism. But the NFL, and football in general, are...
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s Slam Dunk Against Antisemitism
JNS.org - Who ranks with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.? In our view, nobody. But former NBA star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is an African-American -- and...
The Black and Jewish Communities Must Unite; But Black Leaders Must Fight Antisemitism
“So you’re that ni**er lover that wants to tell us what to do with all our ni**ers in Mississippi?” Those were the last words that a...
Blacks and Jews Together: Building Ladders Instead of Walls
Recent current events remind me of a beautiful story I heard years ago. A boy was shorter than his younger brother, and it bothered him...
The West Takes a Step Back From ‘Cancel Culture’
This week, the fightback against “woke culture” -- the almost Orwellian control of what one is allowed to think and say in polite company --...
How China Is Exploiting American Unrest
The state-controlled Chinese media enthusiastically covered the protests and rioting that followed the George Floyd killing. It compared the American protests to the protests in...
Islamists Appropriate Black Lives Matter Movement Despite History of Anti-Black Bigotry
JNS.org - Following the killing in police custody of Minneapolis resident George Floyd, several radical Muslim-American organizations have joined in nationwide protests to show solidarity...
BLM, Israel and the Dangers of Intersectionality
In the past month, America has transformed from a landscape of empty streets under COVID-19 lockdown to streets crowded with protesters, vocalizing anger and grief...
Support Civil Rights With Everything You Have — but Look Carefully at Who You Support
One month ago, we witnessed the killing of George Floyd by police officer Derek Chauvin in Minnesota; it was a scene that had played out...
Nazi Headstones and Confederate Statues Should Be Treated the Same
JNS.org - The US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) agreed recently to the removal of a small number of headstones in US military cemeteries that...
Dear Jews: The Summer of 2020 Is Not About Us
JNS.org - An extraordinary moment has arisen in America that taps into a deep history of racism that predates the birth of our country. But instead...
Never Again the Canary in the Coal Mine
JNS.org - Facing ever-growing antisemitism in the decades following the Holocaust, the Diaspora Jewish community’s common response has been to cry “Never Again” and describe...
The Jews and Prohibition
In 1920s New York City, prohibition agents Izzy Einstein and Moe Smith were confronted with an endless number of illegal “speakeasies.” Prohibitionists who were also...
From Disillusioned Muslim to Christian Arab Zionist
I am a Jordanian Arab from a Muslim family. I was born in 1989. In 2010, I decided to leave Islam after becoming fed up...
