Analysis
Tuesday, April 11th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023
Samuel Rubinstein UnHerd, Mar. 9, 2023 “The problem with ‘Holocaust-as-civics-lesson’, like the problem of treating the collapse of Weimar Germany as a parable, is that it means that the Holocaust has to be ‘updated’ to reflect present political concerns.” It’s like clockwork. Every few months the government announces a new plan to tighten immigration […]
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Ben Cohen JNS, Feb. 10, 2023 “… while antisemitic ideology isn’t very imaginative, it compensates for that weakness by being highly adaptive—able to reinvent its obsession with supposed Jewish malignancy in almost any situation and winning supporters accordingly.” In the world of Jewish advocacy, the “working definition” of antisemitism endorsed by the International Holocaust Remembrance […]
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Friday, January 27th 2023 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
The Tikkun in Sutzkever’s Work: Elie Wiesel, translated and introduced by Allan Nadler, Jewish Review of Books, Winter 2023 ‘In the Garden of the Righteous’ Review: Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust: Diane Cole, WSJ, Jan. 22, 2023 Abbas’s Berlin Press Conference Confirmed a Deep Truth About the Palestinian President: Stephan Pollard, Jewish Chronicle, Apr. 17, 2022 […]
Diane Cole Wall Street Journal, Jan. 22, 2023 In June 1940, Aristides de Sousa Mendes, Portugal’s consul general in Bordeaux, France, watched from his office window as a stream of Jewish men, women and children flooded his sidewalk. Hitler’s army had conquered France with shocking speed, and the Jews, now made stateless by Nazi racial […]
Stephan Pollard, Jewish Chronicle, Apr. 17, 2022 “When he wrote his thesis in 1982 he did not ‘deny’ a Holocaust took place. Rather, he distorted and warped it — changing the very nature of the Shoah (and the number murdered) so the blame for their death lies with the Jews themselves.” Here’s your Starter […]
Lyn Julius, JNS, Jan. 16, 2023 Good news from the Gulf: The UAE will teach about the Holocaust in its schools. It is only right that in the ongoing process of normalization with Israel, the Gulf countries should make sure that schoolchildren are acquainted with the greatest catastrophe to befall the Jewish people. But if […]
Caroline Alphonso Globe and Mail, Jan. 26, 2023 “A survey of students in middle school and high school conducted in 2021 found that about a third didn’t know what to think about the Holocaust, thought the number of Jewish people who died had been exaggerated or were unsure whether the Holocaust had happened.” Cindy Kozierok […]
Thursday, October 27th 2022 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
NOTORIOUS ANTISEMITE LOUIS FARRAKHAN’S NOXIOUS INFLUENCE WATCH: The Life and Influence of Louis Farrakhan on Jay Z and the Music Industry: Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy, YouTube, Aug. 16, 2020 — The Nation of Islam, under the leadership of Louis Farrakhan, has heavily influenced the modern Hip-Hop community. Watch our video to better understand […]
Eunice G. Pollack INSS, June 1, 2022 “Although American Jews had been the ethnoreligious group most engaged in the struggle to end racial discrimination, the new antisemites relentlessly portrayed Jews as Blacks’ foremost foe.” Beginning in the early 20th century, American Jews had been Blacks’ foremost ally in the struggle for integration […]
Eric Levitz The Intelligencer, Oct. 12, 2022 “… human beings in general do not need to be mentally ill to be antisemitic. But would the specific human being Kanye West have developed antisemitic beliefs if he had never suffered from bipolar disorder?” Kanye West has been having mental-health issues — and he’s also […]
Andrew Esensten JTA, Oct. 12, 2022 “The idea that African slavery in the Americas was not a mark of shame but instead a mark of distinction as God’s chosen people appealed to some African Americans, who appreciated the way the doctrine gave them pride and dignity in the context of Jim Crow segregation […]
Andre Gee Rolling Stone, Oct. 25, 2022 “Kanye theorized that the people who came out against him weren’t simply upset at his anti-Blackness, but that they were agents “sent” by Jewish people.” I CAN SAY antisemitic things and Adidas can’t drop me,” the artist formerly known as Kanye West proclaimed on Drink Champs just over a […]
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