Jeff Jacoby writes in the Boston Globe, Amid Holocaust remembrance, antisemitism adapts and thrives. Excerpt: Where anti-Semitism is gaining market share today is not among those who yell “Heil Hitler” or demonize Jews as Christ-killers. The oldest and most protean
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by Henry Oliner The commemoration of the holocaust during Yom Hashoah tries to understand a tragedy that defies human comprehension. Some organizations proposing to fight anti-Semitism tend to descend into the mission creep of fighting hatred in general. It is
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The Making of a Libertarian, Contrarian, Nonobservant, but Self-Identified Jew by Randy Barnett Barnett’s father, a strongly identified Jewish atheist, took the lesson of the Holocaust to be that individual rights needed to be protected against the tyranny of the
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Yankel Rosenbaum Al Sharpton’s cries for racial justice in the aftermath of the Treyvon Martin/ George Zimmerman case were distinctly missing in 1993 as he stirred up the Crown Heights riots that ended in the death of Yankel Rosenbaum.
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Getting Rich by Fighting for the Poor from the blog of Daniel Greenfield – Sultan Knish, 3//7/13 Excerpt: Chavez died with an estimated net worth of 2 billion dollars making him the 4th richest man in Venezuela and the 49th
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NYT Letter to the editor from Michael Salberg of the ADL – Anti-Semitism in Hungary: While a number of far-right parties in Europe run on xenophobic platforms, Jobbik is the only parliamentary party of a European Union member state that
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Europe’s Hezbollah cowardice by Jeff Jacoby in The Boston Globe, 3/3/13 Excerpt: So what can explain the European reluctance to blacklist Hezbollah as a terrorist organization and shut down its fundraising and logistical operations? As in Churchill’s day, cowardice and
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Alan Dershowitz writes in The Jerusalem Post The death of a liberal Israel lover, 2/4/13, thoughts on Ed Koch and the changing politics of Israel supporters. Excerpts: When Israel was established in 1948, it had the enthusiastic backing of the
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Jeff Jacoby writes of an interesting chapter in Jewish American History and a tale of atonement in Grant’s Greatest Regret in Townhall, 12/5/12. Excerpts: In December 1862, with the Civil War raging, the Union Army’s efforts to control the movement
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But I prefer to distinguish anti-Semitism from mere intolerance. Many other groups are subject to prejudice and discrimination. American clubs and schools that formerly excluded Jews also excluded blacks and Asians. Other “middleman minorities,” like Koreans or overseas Chinese, have
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Jay Nordlinger writes in The National Review, The Nazi card & c Excerpts: There are people in the world like Nazis: Saddam Hussein’s Baath party; the Assads’ Baath party; the Iranian dictatorship; Hezbollah; Hamas. And you know? Democrats such as
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One of the little probed mysteries of social history is society’s hostility to its greatest benefactors, the producers of wealth. On every continent and in every epoch the people who have excelled in creating wealth have been the victims of
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August 17 is the anniversary of the lynching of Leo Frank in Marietta in 1915. This is a fascinating and tragic piece of history. It was the OJ Simpson trial of its day and was followed by newspapers all over
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During one of Menachem Begin’s initial meetings with Jimmy Carter, the subject of Israeli settlements in the West Bank inevitably arose and it was a major sticking point in their relationship. He (Begin) took out a piece of paper from
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The ability of Arab and Muslim leaders to dominate the United Nations while celebrating their contempt for everything it stands for seems to confirm anti-Semitism’s success. Yet caveat emptor—early benefits of organizing politics against the Jews are inevitably outweighed by the
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The organization of politics against Israel had moved from the Middle East into the world arena. Outrages became bolder year by year: Cuba, which jails people for circulating the Human Rights Declaration, became vice chair of the U.N. Human Rights
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