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Antisemitism

Anti-Semitic Attacks Surged In 2012, Report Finds

AP | ARIEL DAVID | Posted 04.07.2013 | World

TEL AVIV, Israel -- Israeli researchers warned Sunday of a sudden upsurge in anti-Semitic attacks, topped by a deadly school shooting in France, notin...

Verbal Combat: The Rise of Israel's Words Warriors

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 05.04.2013 | World
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

The righteousness of Israel's cause can be established in open argument and Israel can be victorious in the marketplace of ideas. The time has come to passionately engage Israel's enemies in verbal combat.

Anti-antisemitic Hitmen And The New Judeophobia

Jonathan Judaken | Posted 04.06.2013 | Religion
Jonathan Judaken

To say that anti-Zionism is antisemitism is too simplistic, just as it is a canard to say that Zionism is racism or that Israel is an apartheid state. Scholars have something important to contribute to this debate: to facilitate a more rounded discussion of the new Judeophobia.

Newtown Shootings an Israeli-US Plot, Suggests Conspiracy-Mongering Professor

Chip Berlet | Posted 03.11.2013 | Politics
Chip Berlet

The Newtown, Connecticut school shooting may be part of a sinister Israeli intelligence operation according to retired professor James Fetzer. The Dul...

Attacks on Chuck Hagel Show Political Correctness At Its Worst

Jonathan Weiler | Posted 03.10.2013 | Politics
Jonathan Weiler

The charges against Hagel that have received a hearing do little more than perpetuate our inability to debate seriously issues of vital national concern.

Confronting the Black Tide of New Antisemitism

Bernard-Henri Lévy | Posted 12.16.2012 | World
Bernard-Henri Lévy

To give things their correct name, Albert Camus said, is to put the world right a bit. That is why the first task is that of nomination, of pronouncing the word: Whether one likes it or not, Europe is the stage of a wave of a new kind of antisemitism. What kind? And what's new about it?

On the Savage Ad and Western Values

Sara Khorshid | Posted 12.12.2012 | World
Sara Khorshid

One of the classic questions that I often encounter as a Muslim and Egyptian is whether my religion is "compatible" with democracy and human rights.

Emory Dental Students Flunked For Being Jewish Get Official Apology 60 Years Later

The Huffington Post | Meredith Bennett-Smith | Posted 10.12.2012 | Religion

This week Emory University president James W. Wagner officially apologized to Jewish students who were wrongfully failed or otherwise harassed under t...

In Berlin, Far From the Israel of Today

Carol Smaldino | Posted 10.19.2012 | World
Carol Smaldino

Today has been a day spent in Berlin, devoted largely to its impressive and evocative Jewish Museum.

Remembering Alexander Cockburn

Conn Hallinan | Posted 10.14.2012 | Media
Conn Hallinan

For Chaos heard his voice: him all his Traine Follow'd in the bright procession to behold Creation, and the wonders of his might. --Parad...

Wisconsin Shootings: Sympathy Is Not Enough

Jalees Rehman, M.D. | Posted 10.07.2012 | Religion
Jalees Rehman, M.D.

After a tragedy like the shooting in Wisconsin, we have to move beyond merely offering our sympathy and condolences. We have to try our best to help replace the current culture of contempt with a culture of respect.

Andrea Stone

Famous German Family Feuds Over Nazi Letters

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 08.01.2012 | World

The long-running soap opera Sturm und Drang surrounding one of Germany's most famous -- and infamous -- families got a little hotter this week when on...

The History Of Anti-Semitism

Phyllis Goldstein | Posted 02.05.2012 | Religion
Phyllis Goldstein

To understand why hatreds endure, we have to confront history. Histories that are not confronted can never be reconciled and yet most people -- including many Jews-- know very little about the history of antisemitism.

The Millionaire Matchmaker Mouths Off

Danny Groner | Posted 11.28.2011 | Entertainment
Danny Groner

Privately, Patti Stanger has free reign to share with her clients generalized observations about particular communities stemming from years of experience. However, when broadcast on TV, those same comments come across as uncalled for -- and unfair -- stereotypes.

Yale's Distressing Decision to Shut Down Its "Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Anti-Semitism"

Alan Dershowitz | Posted 08.14.2011 | College
Alan Dershowitz

At a time of increasing -- and increasingly complex -- anti-Semitism throughout the world, Yale University has decided to shut down the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Anti-Semitism.

The Antidote to Glenn Beck

Tamar Abrams | Posted 05.25.2011 | Religion
Tamar Abrams

Glenn Beck has now taken on Reform Jews, of which I am one. Dismissing us as similar to "radicalized Islam," he went on to sum up our rabbis as "generally political in nature."

Is Jean-Luc Godard Antisemitic? Second Episode: Godard Actor? (1998)

Bernard-Henri Lévy | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Bernard-Henri Lévy

Sometimes accompanied by Sarde, sometimes without him, generally after a simple, spontaneous phone call to make sure I was there, available "for a coffee," Jean-Luc Godard stopped by my place on the Boulevard Saint-Germain.

UPDATE: ADL's Foxman Condemns Glenn Beck

MJ Rosenberg | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
MJ Rosenberg

I am not saying Beck is anti-Semitic. I think he is so utterly ignorant of Jewish history and the history of Germany 1933-1945 that he is unaware of what he is doing in his three-part series on George Soros.

What Antisemitism Is (And Isn't)

Ben S. Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Ben S. Cohen

This morning, I received an email from a reader informing me that I was "a chicken hawk Jew." For good measure, I was then urged to perform an act wit...

The F Word: Helen Thomas Was Wrong, but Who's Right?

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Laura Flanders

Who says Obama can't show anger? Helen Thomas sure made him angry. One can't help thinking that she would have gotten less grief if she'd destroyed an ecosystem in a drilling disaster.

Harvard Against Yale in the New York Times Book Review

Dan Agin | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Dan Agin

The latest literary brouhaha is between Harold Bloom and James Woods (that's Yale against Harvard -- without raccoon coats).

The Guardian: Ahmadinejad Not Jewish, Family Didn't Convert

The Huffington Post | T.J. Ortenzi | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

Just a couple weeks ago, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took to the podium inside the U.N.'s grand hall and suggested that there was a worldwid...

Anti-Semitism in Islam--Not Decreed By Heaven

Haim Watzman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Haim Watzman

There he goes again--Benny Morris is giving the battle against Islamic anti-Semitism a bad name. But then he's not alone in fray. Nearly every passio...

Ballsy Politics, Literally

Lea Lane | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Lea Lane

I know, I know: dismissing Sarah Palin and all her baggage seems like a -- excuse-the-expression -- no-brainer. But if you think dubious distinctio...