Analysis
Friday, July 14th 2023 / Friday, November 3rd 2023
Thomas Gibbons-Neff NY Times, June 5, 2023 “Ukraine’s ambivalence about these symbols, and sometimes even its acceptance of them, risks giving new, mainstream life to icons that the West has spent more than a half-century trying to eliminate.” Since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine last year, the Ukrainian government and NATO allies have posted, […]
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Thursday, July 6th 2023 / Friday, November 3rd 2023
HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL VANDALIZED Netanyahu Condemns ‘Wave of Antisemitism’ Sweeping France During Protests: Jewish News reporter, Jewish News, July 3, 2023 — Benjamin Netanyahu has “strongly condemned” the vandalism of a Paris Holocaust memorial and the antisemitic chanting during football matches as part of nationwide protests across France last week. _____________________________________________________________ For Jewish Community, Paris Riots Stoke […]
Canaan Lidor Times of Israel, July 2, 2023 “There was no logic to the madness. The rioters just smash any shop in their path, there’s no selection.” Before sunset, Jonathan C. draws the curtains of his apartment in the Paris suburb of Sarcelles tightly and makes sure no light can be seen from outside. “I […]
Thursday, July 6th 2023 / Saturday, November 4th 2023
Fiamma Nirenstein JNS, July 4, 2023 “As always with frenzied mass movements, this one soon came to concentrate on their perverted image of “the Jew.” The tragic police shooting of French 17-year-old Nahel Merzouk and the ensuing massive riots cannot but recall the murder of George Floyd by a police officer in Minneapolis in […]
Friday, June 23rd 2023 / Saturday, November 4th 2023
SHABBAT READING Korah Took…: Prof. Haim (Howard) Kreisel, The Torah.com, June 22, 2023 — After the punishment of the wilderness generation for the sin of the scouts, Korah, a Levite, leads a group of people in an uprising against Moses.[1] Their complaint seems straightforward and reasonable: במדבר טז:ג וַיִּקָּהֲלוּ עַל מֹשֶׁה וְעַל אַהֲרֹן וַיֹּאמְרוּ אֲלֵהֶם רַב לָכֶם […]
Matthew Kassel Jewish Insider, June 1, 2023 “KC Johnson, a professor of American history at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center, believes the strategy “left unresolved” whether Biden officials are “willing to confront hardline critics of Israel whose words or actions stray into antisemitism.” The administration now has “an example of this,” Johnson told […]
Armin Rosen Tablet, July 1, 2022 ‘It is not a stretch to wonder if a pro-Zionist diversity bureaucrat is an ideological contradiction in terms.” Of all the signs that the Jewish community’s political influence has waned in New York City, perhaps none has been as stark as the City University of New York’s frequent […]
Rebecca Roiphe Sapir Journal, Volume Six Summer 2022 “The lecture halls in our law schools are now filled with professors and students who believe these things. In their view, the profession is no longer an essential gatekeeper of the rule of law, a key component of the American founding. Instead, it’s a part of the […]
Tuesday, June 20th 2023 / Sunday, November 5th 2023
Dr. Alex Grobman Israel National News, May 25, 2023 “Most mainstream Jewish leaders are promoting universalist fantasies—but to bring ‘kumbaya’ to the arena of identity politics is to unilaterally disarm.” Charles Jacobs and Avi Goldwasser, EDS. Betrayal: The Failure of American Jewish Leadership (New York: Post Hill Press, 2023) ISBN: 978-1-63758-878-9 “This book is […]
Avi Weiss and Eitan Fischberger Tablet, June 2, 2023 “… the majority of antisemitic acts in America are taking place in Haredi/Hasidic communities, such as Monsey, Crown Heights, and Borough Park, all in New York. With their visibly Jewish garbs, these innocent people can—and have been—easily singled out for constant attack. This is raw antisemitism, […]
Charles Jacobs Jerusalem Post, June 2, 2023 “The Jewish establishment is now fully trapped. It put all our eggs into the imploding liberal basket. It made alliances with all the minority groups, and now these very groups have turned on us and have become Palestinianists and antisemitic.” It might not have been the kindest […]
Thursday, June 15th 2023 / Sunday, November 5th 2023
Benjamin Weinthal Fox News, June 9, 2023 “At bottom, the peddlers of antisemitism are objecting to being exposed as peddlers of antisemitism – as peddlers of antisemitism have done through the ages.” The United Nations Commission of Inquiry (COI) on Thursday issued a new report that attacked rights of U.S. States to pass legislation banning discrimination against Israel […]
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