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Combating Anti-Semitism Is Core to the Progressive Project
In response to the wave of violence against Jews in New York and New Jersey, progressives must confront the root causes of xenophobia in America and beyond.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Fighting Anti-Semitism and Immigration Detentions
Sophie Ellman-Golan, a co-organizer of the Women’s March, now helps lead Never Again Action, a Jewish political action group that’s vowed to hold the U.S. government accountable for the detention and deportation machine and for condoning the rise of
Posted inBooks
Never Again, Except for Right Now
By arguing that ‘the left’ represents as dangerous a threat as mass shooters and right-wing terrorists, Times writer Bari Weiss cheapens the crisis facing America, one that she has witnessed firsthand.
Posted inTAP
Orban’s Own Rabbi, and Chabad’s Support for Shareholder Capitalism
Today’s Washington Post features a fascinating and revelatory story by James McAuley that illuminates the growing relationship between the Hasidic sect Chabad and the operationally anti-Semitic regime of Hungary’s Victor Orban. (“Operationally” because it’s not apparent that Orban is personally anti-Semitic, but abundantly apparent that he has resurrected a host of anti-Semitic tropes—most particularly, in […]
Posted inCivil Rights in America
If We Thought Anti-Semitism Would Fade Away, We Were Wrong
The myth of the controlling Jew is so deeply part of Western history that demagogues of any political camp can exploit it.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Entire Republican Establishment Has Embraced a Classic Anti-Semitic Trope
The reality is that Jewish Americans worry less about Israel than things like health care, the economy, and the environment.
Posted inAmerica and the World
The Winner? AIPAC!
How Representative Omar’s blunder left the Israel lobby stronger than ever
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
Facebook Anti-Soros Campaign Treated Hate Like Just Another Political Position
Feeding an anti-Semitic trope was payback for critique of company as “menace.”
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
Anti-Semitism Has Consequences
The massacre in Pittsburgh has a lesson for progressives.