“Nearly 80 years after Kristallnacht, we are not exactly sure what a Nazi is, or should be”
When Adolf Hitler’s party emerged from Bavaria with a philosophy called “Nationalsozialismus,” two of...
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“…just because an activist group says dumb and misguided things about Jews and Israel, that doesn’t mean the campus in question is “hostile” or “uncomfortable” for Jews”
…just because an activist group says dumb and misguided things about Jews and Israel,...
“White nationalists in the United States perceive the country as having plunged into unending crisis…”
Within social and economic justice movements committed to equality, we have not yet collectively...
“If you feel the need to interrogate every Jew and demand they denounce Israel (or any other Jews or Jewish actions) before allowing them into your space, you are a racist”
Jews are not collectively accountable for the actions of all other Jews, any more...
“…it was my organizing against antisemitism as a Black antiracist that first pulled me to the Jewish community, not the other way around”
If I live and work, as I do, in the kind of daily, intimate...
“Being progressive does not insulate you from falling prey to bigotry anymore than being conservative does…”
Medieval Christian Europe persecuted its Jews because it considered them responsible for the alleged...
“The public and private discussions I’ve had just in the past month suggest a hunger to understand antisemitism…”
Over years of speaking about White nationalism in the 1990s and early 2000s in...
“Many in our community contend that President Trump’s strong support of Israel counterbalances his defects and justifies our support of him. I do not agree because l am fearful and I very much hope that I turn out to be wrong that his antics will end up being detrimental to both this country and to Israel”
In democracies, elections come and go rather frequently and the day after, the rain...
“I doubt there has been an increase in anti-Semitism as much as there has been an increase in the permissibility of the expressions of anti-Semitism and its amplification by the tools of social media”
I doubt there has been an increase in anti-Semitism as much as there has...
“Jewish security in America is strong, and is likely to remain so…”
America in 2016 is a country in which we make a distinction between whatever...