My thoughts on politics.
It was a peaceful summer morning when a man began shouting threatening antisemitic epithets at a guy waiting on the southbound platform of the Gates Avenue station for the J train on June 13. Thinking quickly, the victim took out his cell phone to record the incident. The shouter then grabbed the phone and hurled …
It was difficult to interpret the meaning of the antisemitic congresswoman from Minnesota, Ilhan Omar, joining the newly formed black-Jewish caucus. Did she turn over a new leaf? Or did she do it in order to remove the stain of antisemitism that clings to her name by proving that she could work together with Jews? …
What are we to make of the following words of Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib? “There’s always kind of a calming feeling I tell folks when I think of the Holocaust, and the tragedy of the Holocaust, and the fact that it was my ancestors — Palestinians — who lost their land and some lost their lives, …
The antisemitism so obviously inherent in the UK’s Labour Party continues, this time embodied by a call to suspend arms sales to the Jewish State. It happened on January 24, when Labour Party Shadown Foreign Minister Emily Thornberry sent a letter to British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, equating Iran’s military support for Syria’s Bashar al-Assad …
It’s a tragedy when anyone is murdered, no matter their religion, especially when they are young. But in the wake of the horrific murder of Israeli Arab Aiia Maasarwe, some have expressed a repugnant thought: that it’s fine when the murder victims are Jewish Israelis. So noted Gav Kostonov, on Facebook: Just as the leaders …
The world is in an uproar over Alice Walker and her antisemitism, as expressed during a New York Times interview. Waters told the world that the book that sits on her nightstand, is rabid antisemite David Icke’s “And the Truth Shall Set You Free.” When called to task for printing what amounts to an endorsement …