anti-Semitism

The Holocaust just got more shocking

by News Sources 03.02.2013

The New York Times reports: Thirteen years ago, researchers at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum began the grim task of documenting all the ghettos, slave labor sites, concentration camps and killing factories that the Nazis set up throughout Europe. What they have found so far has shocked even scholars steeped in the history of [...]

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The anti-Semitism that goes unreported

by News Sources 07.22.2012

Amira Hass writes: Here’s a statistic that you won’t see in research on anti-Semitism, no matter how meticulous the study is. In the first six months of the year, 154 anti-Semitic assaults have been recorded, 45 of them around one village alone. Some fear that last year’s record high of 411 attacks – significantly more [...]

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The more Germans know about the Mideast, the more they root for the Palestinians

by News Sources 06.26.2012

Akiva Eldar writes: Official Jerusalem hasn’t been caught saying a bad word about the Muslim Brotherhood victory in the Egyptian elections and probably won’t have any slips of the tongue regarding the president-elect, Mohammed Morsi. All these years we’ve been saying that a secure peace is made with democratic regimes. And a democratic regime is [...]

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Anti-Semitism today

by Paul Woodward 01.19.2012

Never forget, has been the admonition from those who rightly insist that the world should never forget the horror of the Holocaust. Strange then that the term which describes the hatred that gave rise to the Holocaust should have been turned into a cheap political weapon whose primary purpose is to stifle criticism of Israel. [...]

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Disentangling criticism of Israel from anti-Semitism

by News Sources 12.26.2011

Pragmatic Middle East writes: If you’ve only read Caroline Glick in the Jerusalem Post and Eli Lake in the Weekly Standard over the past couple of weeks, you’d have to conclude that there was one thing that New York Times columnist Tom Friedman, Time magazine columnist Joe Klein, US Ambassador to Belgium Howard Gutman, Secretary [...]

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Canada clamps down on criticism of Israel

by News Sources 07.28.2011

Al Jazeera reports: Nearly two years after the first hearings were held in Ottawa, the Canadian Parliamentary Coalition fto Combat Anti-Semitism (CPCCA) released a detailed report [PDF] on July 7 that found that anti-Semitism is on the rise in Canada, especially on university campuses. While the CPCCA’s final report does contain some cases of real [...]

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Amateur hour at DHS as anti-Semitism is raised as possible motive in Giffords’ shooting

by Paul Woodward 01.10.2011

“Gabrielle Gifford [sic] is the first Jewish female elected to such a high position in the US government.” This comes from a Department of Homeland Security internal memo obtained by Fox News. Whether no name is attached to the memo or whether Fox wanted to save the author some embarrassment isn’t clear. Memo to the [...]

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Glenn Beck: inspired by Iran or Lyndon LaRouche?

by Paul Woodward 11.12.2010

George Soros is a Jewish tycoon and mastermind of ultra-modern colonialism. He is also a thug who is deployed as an economic hitman for the British empire. The first claim comes from a video produced by Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence which has depicted Soros operating out of the Situation Room in the White House, while [...]

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Shimon Peres — king of bombast

by Paul Woodward 08.06.2010

“You write history — I have to make history,” Shimon Peres says at the end of an interview with the Israeli historian Benny Morris. At times in the interview the Israeli president almost sounds deranged. The main reason for war was that people earned their livelihood from land. People wanted either to defend their land [...]

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The transformation of ‘anti-Semitism’

by Paul Woodward 02.11.2010

In recent years, right-wing Israeli political leaders and their supporters have warned of the rise of a “new anti-Semitism”, rife across Europe and in left-wing political circles. The new anti-Semites are critics of Israel. They don’t target Jews; they target the Jewish state. (I say “they” but of course I should say “we” because I [...]

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The anti-Semitism card is turning worthless

by Paul Woodward 02.10.2010

Glenn Greenwald writes: What’s most striking about this attack [by literary editor of The New Republic, Leon Wieseltier, against Andrew Sullivan] is how inconsequential it is. It was once the case, not all that long ago, that an accusation of “anti-semitism” was the nuclear weapon of political debates, rendering most politicians and pundits (especially non-Jewish [...]

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Greedy bastards

by Paul Woodward 02.02.2010

Michael Kinsley, smart as always: [Rush Limbaugh] said on his radio show that President Obama may be appealing to anti-Semitism with his recent populist criticism of banks and bankers. “There are a lot of people,” Limbaugh said, “when you say banker, people think Jewish.” He didn’t mention Goldman Sachs. Abe Foxman, longtime head of the [...]

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International Holocaust Day becomes Attack Goldstone Day

by Paul Woodward 01.26.2010

Israel: Goldstone Report anti-Semitic By Roni Sofer, Ynet, January 25, 2010 The world will mark International Holocaust Day on Wednesday. Monday will see President Shimon Peres fly to Berlin and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leave for a visit to the Auschwitz death camp in Poland. They will be joined by Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman in [...]

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Being anti-Israel and anti-Zionist is the “new anti-Semitism”

by Paul Woodward 12.18.2009

Being anti-Israel and anti-Zionist is the “new anti-Semitism” By Sharmine Narwani, Huffington Post, December 16, 2009 A Jewish woman, deriding protesters at a UK rally on Sunday in support of charging former Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni with war crimes, declared loudly into a TV camera that being anti-Israel and anti-Zionist is the “new anti-Semitism.” [...]

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Palestinian equal rights joins the progressive agenda on ‘The Daily Show’

by Paul Woodward 10.29.2009

Palestinian equal rights joins the progressive agenda on ‘The Daily Show’ By Adam Horowitiz, Mondoweiss, October 29, 2009 The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c

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OPINION: The ‘problem of evil’ in postwar Europe

by Paul Woodward 01.28.2008

The ‘problem of evil’ in postwar Europe By Tony Judt, New York Review of Books, February 14, 2008 Ever since its birth in 1948, the state of Israel has negotiated a complex relationship to the Shoah. On the one hand the near extermination of Europe’s Jews summarized the case for Zionism. Jews could not survive [...]

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EDITORIAL: Ahmadinejad’s free speech

by Paul Woodward 09.25.2007

Ahmadinejad’s free speech By Paul Woodward, War in Context, September 25, 2007 Mahmoud Ahmadinejad did something yesterday that neither President Bush nor Vice-President Cheney have the courage to do: stand up and speak in front of an unfriendly college audience. How can America’s leaders claim that they are defending freedom when they are so clearly [...]

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