April 07, 2008

David Harris, Here's Your New Radio Ad Schedule

The radio station of the New York Times, WQXR, has refused to run an ad from the American Jewish Committee (AJC). Dealing with the rocket attacks on Sderot, the ad was read by AJC's executive director, David Harris. I listen to WQXR at work, and have heard the AJC ads.

The Times turned down the ad for various moronic reasons, which Harris explains here:

Here’s the written explanation from Tom Bartunek, president of New York Times Radio and general manager of WQXR:

”In my judgement several elements of this spot are outside our bounds of acceptability. First, the opening line— `Imagine you had fifteen seconds to find shelter from an oncoming missile’—does not make clear that the potential target of the missile is not our listening area, and as a consequence, runs the risk of raising anxiety in a misleading way. Second, the description of the missiles as arriving `day or night’ and `daily’ is also subject to challenge as being misleading, at least to the degree that reasonable people might be troubled by the absence of any acknowledgement of reciprocal Israeli military actions. Finally, in my judgement the `countdown’ device and the general tone of the message do not meet our guidelines for decorum.”

WQXR joins Ms. Magazine in the proud ranks of principled, progressive media outlets that refuse to demean themselves by accepting certain types of filthy Jewish advertising. As I wrote during the Ms. dustup in January, I'm happy to offer the AJC alternative media outlets for its thoughtful ads. If the AJC moves them to another outlet, I will be sure to offer that station (and its many fine, upscale advertisers) my support. So, David Harris, here's your new radio schedule:

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Van | 04/07/08 at 09:59 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Antisemitism watch

September 16, 2007

"The current biggest provider of snuff pornography is the Muslim extremist movement."

Interview with film director David Cronenberg.

Amy Taubin: I want to ask you about "At the Suicide of the Last Jew in the World in the Last Cinema in the World" [Cronenberg’s four-minute film for Chacun son cinéma, the compilation put together for the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival]. I didn’t think anyone could do anything anymore that would make that audience really uncomfortable, but your film did.

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Judith | 09/16/07 at 07:18 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Antisemitism watch

April 04, 2007

V'Hi She'amda

I was going through old emails in one of my sporadic attempts to practice good email hygiene, and found a slightly outdated but relevant one from frequent commenter Alex Bensky. Unfortunately, this sentiment is still apropos, and as Alex points out, probably always will be:

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Judith | 04/04/07 at 07:14 PM | 1 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Antisemitism watch

April 02, 2007

French Jewish Leaders: Whistling Dixie Past the Graveyard?

Our French landsmen are in a state of high dudgeon these days over two matters that struck me as a case of synchronicity. First, Jewsweek reported this charming item (emphasis added),

A French newspaper revealed over the weekend that some 1,000 apartment buildings in the Mediterranean city of Nice have maintained a decades-old municipal regulation barring Jews from becoming tenants.

The regulation was put in place during World War II, when parts of France were cooperating and collaborating with their Nazi occupiers.

French Jewish leaders expressed outrage over the discovery, and demanded the regulations be revised immediately.

Immediately? What's the big rush?

Then, in an example of holding two contradictory thoughts in mind at one time, there came this item. According to the JTA, 7,000 French Jews signed a petition asking Congress for refugee status in the U.S. because of religious persecution.

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Van | 04/02/07 at 06:19 AM | 3 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Antisemitism watch

March 30, 2007

A motion for cherem

In a previous post about the factional fighting in the Brit "anti-Zionist" movement, frequent Kesher Talk commenter "Cynic" says:

Isn't it about time that something was done about distinguishing the "accident" of birth and/or names from those who identify with Judaism and its practices?

Maybe there should be a "Not In Our Name" movement making this plain to those in the market place that the Chomskys and Shamirs do not form part of the people of Israel?

This idea is very tempting. But like attempts to define "free speech" and "pornography," motions to read individuals out of the Jewish people are fraught with partisanship. "I know it when I see it" is not a good enough argument. To their credit, our leaders have always been reluctant to place an individual in cherem, perhaps feeling that such a small and embattled people cannot afford to repudiate even its most despicable members. Or more so, refusing to close the door to tshuvah.

But some of these people really hate Jews, and furthermore, tell lies about us, and even further, build their careers around telling lies about us, and finally, most of them do not consider themselves part of the Jewish people in any way. The only time they place the Jewish hat upon their heads is to pose for the cameras as dissident Jews who defy the supposed blanket of conformity imposed by the mainstream Jewish community (a real laugh, considering the rampant ideological anarchy throughout our divisive nation, which we not only tolerate but are proud of).

Yet I agree with Cynic that there must be some organized effort to call these people out, preferably with a little Groucho-like humor. Ideas are welcome.

Judith | 03/30/07 at 12:11 AM | 5 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Antisemitism watch

March 25, 2007

Cinnamon Stillwell: N. CA Representative for Campus Watch

Having spent the last five years as a political columnist and more recently, a blogger, I've now decided to further my involvement in the battle of ideas. In particular, the one raging on American college campuses and most especially, Mideast studies. At this critical juncture in history, it's imperative that the next generation receive an accurate, unbiased education in this most crucial of subjects. To that end, I'm happy to announce that starting April 1, I'll be the Northern California Representative for Campus Watch.

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Cinnamon | 03/25/07 at 01:06 PM | 5 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Antisemitism watch

March 19, 2007

Zombie Captures San Francisco "Antiwar" Protesters in all their Glory

As expected, the streets of San Francisco were home to the usual bizarre assortment of "antiwar" protesters this past weekend. What that actually translated into were communists, pro-terrorists, Jew-haters, 9/11 conspiracists, acid-casualties from the 60s, brainwashed college students, a sea of bloody (literally) Palestinian flags, Che tattoos, lots of skin, and a few genuine, if confused, pacifists. And the America-hating "textbook" soon to be used in San Francisco public school classrooms, "Addicted to War," also made an appearance. As has been the pattern for the past few years, a group of brave counter-protesters showed up too.

The inimitable zombie parodies the lunacy of the local left with the usual revealing photos and clever commentary. Click here to venture down the rabbit hole...

Cross-posted at CinnamonStillwell.blogspot.com.

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Cinnamon | 03/19/07 at 11:07 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Antisemitism watch

March 15, 2007

Erasing History, One Objection at a Time

Does objecting to history because it hurts your feelings make it go away?

The University of Leeds was accused of infringing free speech last night when it cancelled a lecture on “Islamic anti-Semitism” by a German academic.

Matthias Köntzel arrived at the university yesterday morning to begin a three-day programme of lectures and seminars, but was told that it had been called off on “security grounds”.

For security grounds, read "insecurity grounds." Namely, the fact that some Muslims can't deal with the free discussion of history. And some academics in the west seem eager to pander to their every insecurity.

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Alcibiades | 03/15/07 at 01:03 AM | 3 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Antisemitism watch

March 08, 2007

Jewish Self-Hatred on the Right

Gershom Scholem, the great scholar of Jewish mysticism, once criticized his friend Hannah Arendt for lacking what he called ahavat yisrael, a love of Israel. There are, of course, numerous permutations of this concept, but for me it has always meant the love of one's people, their struggles, their history, their labors and their creative will. Camus once said that a mission exists for any human group which knows how to derive pride and fecundity from its labors and its sufferings.

This has always been my sense of chosenness and my sense of Zionism. Unfortunately, there are those among us -- and always have been -- for whom ahavat yisrael means nothing at all. Or worse still, it means the rejection and condemnation of all who do not meet their exacting standards of what yisrael ought to be. Most of the time I deal with the leftist form of this disease, i.e. those who claim that their love for the Jewish people demands that they destroy it through assimilation or universalization. But the problem is by no means confined to the left.

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Benjamin | 03/08/07 at 07:12 AM | 5 Comments | 1 TrackBacks | Categories: - Antisemitism watch

March 07, 2007

Lovely: German Bishops Compare West Bank to Warsaw Ghetto

Of all the people in the world who ought to be careful about making insensitive remarks comparing Jews to Nazis, you think high among them would be German Catholic religious leaders. Unfortunately that is not the case.

Yad Vashem lambasted a group of visiting German Catholic bishops on Tuesday for comparing the situation in the Palestinian territories with the Holocaust, calling the contentious remarks "political exploitation and demagoguery" and a gross distortion of history.

The sharp condemnation ... followed reports in the German press of comparisons made by senior German bishops between conditions in the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II and current conditions in Ramallah, resulting from Israeli military activities.

"The remarks illustrate a woeful ignorance of history and a distorted sense of perspective," Yad Vashem Chairman Avner Shalev wrote in a Tuesday letter to Cardinal Karl Lehmann, who led the Conference of German Catholic Bishops on a 10-day visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories.

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Alcibiades | 03/07/07 at 02:03 AM | 5 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Antisemitism watch

March 04, 2007

Alvin Rosenfeld and "the New Anti-Semitism" controversy continues

Alvin Rosenfeld's response to his critics, as well as links to other commentary on his article here.

Executive Director of AJC David A Harris explains why AJC published Rosenfeld's essay, while once again correcting the misleading NYTimes wording.

Campus-J's Ben Greenberg interviewed Alvin Rosenfeld and also has a page of links to articles about the controversy. One of these is an aggressive Australian Broadcasting Company interview of Rosenfeld:

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Judith | 03/04/07 at 08:33 PM | 4 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Antisemitism watch

March 02, 2007

Ritual Self-Slaughter

I read Alvin Rosenfeld's essay, "'Progressive' Jewish Thought and the New Anti-Semitism" this evening. My colleagues have covered the major points in depth, but one passage in the essay amazed me -- "New Rituals of Dissent."

Rosenfeld writes about Jews who incorporate anti-Zionist aspects into traditional Jewish observances, such as Sukkot and brit milahs. One couple declared at their son's bris:

"We are thrilled to pronounce you a Jew without the Right of Return. Your name contains our deep hope that you will explore and celebrate your Jewish identity without confusing it with nationalism."

My question: If the couple is so intent on separating identity from nationalism, why did they circumcise their son in the first place? Surely, as progressives, they must know that circumcision is a barbaric symbol of national identity, a "covenant" meant to distinguish Jews from everybody else and therefore an exclusionist, racist signifier of everything wrong about being Jewish? Well, isn't that so? Shouldn't they do an anti-circumcision ritual, pledging a no-cut covenant with all the oppressed species of Gaia?

What kind of lame progressives are they? Don't they realize that their traumatized child may grow, because of this identification with his fellow Jews, to become a (gasp) ZIONIST?

Oh, the horror for progressive parents.

Van | 03/02/07 at 07:22 AM | 3 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Antisemitism watch

February 28, 2007

Israel's version of Ward Churchill

Okay, so would those aghast at Alvin Rosenfeld's article on antisemitic "progressive" Jews consider the case of Avraham Oz, a professor at Haifa University? Would they deem as demonizing of Israel a professor who emulates the most buffoonish character in American academia, Ward Churchill? According to Arutz-Sheva,

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Judith | 02/28/07 at 05:43 PM | 1 Comments | 1 TrackBacks | Categories: - Antisemitism watch

Alvin Rosenfeld on "Rhetorical Violence and the Jews"

Alvin Rosenfeld - author of "'Progressive' Jewish Thought and the New Anti-Semitism." [PDF] the critique of Jewish Leftish antisemitism which has roiled the Jewish comunity for the past month - responds to his critics and mischaracterizers in The New Republic. (A reader sent me the text. Since New Republic is behind a firewall I am "asking forgiveness rather than permission" and posting the whole thing.)

We wrote about the controversy here. At the end of this post are links to some additional blogposts on Rosenfeld's critics, as well as Amazon links to books discussed in the article.

Rhetorical violence and the Jews. Critical Distance
by Alvin H. Rosenfeld

In December, 2006, I published an essay with the American Jewish Committee (AJC) titled "'Progressive' Jewish Thought and the New Anti-Semitism." [PDF] It slumbered for a while and then suddenly provoked the interests and passions of more people than I could ever have imagined. More about these reactions soon. For now, the facts:

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Judith | 02/28/07 at 04:05 PM | 7 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Antisemitism watch

February 27, 2007

Lawrence of Arabia Was a Zionist

Watching Peter O'Toole at the Academy Awards on Sunday night, one couldn't help but hearken back to that David Lean film classic, Lawrence of Arabia. O'Toole's T.E. Lawrence was the archetype British Arabist, but, according to historian Sir Martin Gilbert, Lawrence was in reality a staunch Zionist.

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Cinnamon | 02/27/07 at 01:14 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Antisemitism watch

February 20, 2007

Israel: the greatest short-term threat to world peace

Who recently said that Israel is the greatest short-term threat to world peace? Nope. Not Ahmadinejad. Not Abbas. Not the depressed Hassan Nasrallah. Not Jimmy Carter. [Though he probably thought it] It was said to a bunch of Hollywood liberals . . . more »

Alcibiades | 02/20/07 at 06:16 PM | 16 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Antisemitism watch

February 03, 2007

Who Is George Soros?

Perhaps you've heard George Soros' recent comment at Davos. Though, until the last day or two, the comments have received little notice. But if you have not, here they are: "The United States is now recognizing the errors it had . . . more »

Alcibiades | 02/03/07 at 05:50 PM | 5 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Antisemitism watch

Jewish Liberalism and Its Discontents

The NY Times, in its infinitely conventional wisdom, has suddenly discovered that Jewish liberalism has some fairly major issues. Occasioned, apparently, by an AJC report attacking various "liberals" for being insufficiently dedicated to Israel's continued existence. The Times, of course, . . . more »

Benjamin | 02/03/07 at 01:19 PM | 3 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Antisemitism watch

January 29, 2007

Jimmy "Too Many Jews" Carter

Last week we reported on the story circulating about how Jimmy Carter decided he needed a quota against holocaust surviving Jews on the Holocaust Memorial Council. This week, the NYSun provides more detail on the story. First Professor Freedman confirmed . . . more »

Alcibiades | 01/29/07 at 10:02 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Antisemitism watch

January 26, 2007

Too Jewish Sounding for the Holocaust Committee!!

Suddenly, it has become socially acceptable for liberal Jews to come out of the closet with their first hand tales of Carter's implicit anti-semitism and irascibility about Jews; the floodgates are now wide open. It's become a trend. I suspect . . . more »

Alcibiades | 01/26/07 at 12:12 AM | 3 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Antisemitism watch

January 11, 2007

14 Members of the Carter Center Resign

From the letter sent by 14 members of the Carter Center announcing their resignation, now published in the WSJ: The facts in dealing with the conflict are these: There are two national narratives contesting one piece of land. The Israelis, . . . more »

Alcibiades | 01/11/07 at 11:35 AM | 3 Comments | 1 TrackBacks | Categories: - Antisemitism watch

December 29, 2006

Rachel Corrie: Dismissed on the Merits

Good for Canada, or at least one theater production company therein. Toronto's Canadian Stage Company has decided not to stage My Name is Rachel Corrie, the controversial play about an American peace activist killed by an Israeli bulldozer. It was . . . more »

Alcibiades | 12/29/06 at 12:25 PM | 5 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Antisemitism watch

December 17, 2006

Carter Refuses to Debate Dershowitz

After going on and on about the alleged lack of debate in the United States regarding the Mideast conflict, former President Jimmy Carter is now refusing put his own ideas to the test. According to the Associated Press: Former President . . . more »

Cinnamon | 12/17/06 at 04:05 PM | 4 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Antisemitism watch

Anti-Zionism is Anti-Semitism, And Carter's Fans Prove the Point

The barrage of hatemail in response to my Jimmy Carter column, not to mention some of the comments in a blog post on the subject, have proven that anti-Semitism, spurred on by the rise of so-called anti-Zionism, is alive and . . . more »

Cinnamon | 12/17/06 at 03:52 PM | 2 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Antisemitism watch

Britains Are Nazis, Too

Not just the Jews Israel, but Britain too, has become Nazi-like. A senior Muslim invoked Hitler's 1930s Nazi regime while attacking the [British] Government over its treatment of British Muslims. In a presentation to MPs, Mr Bari went so far . . . more »

Alcibiades | 12/17/06 at 11:18 AM | 2 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Antisemitism watch

December 12, 2006

A Moment of Infamy

I get why the Ultra Orthodox in general and naturei karta in particular are anti-Zionist, because they believe that God will bring the Messiah and the return of the Jewish people to Israel in his own time and He . . . more »

Alcibiades | 12/12/06 at 02:55 PM | 22 Comments | 1 TrackBacks | Categories: - Antisemitism watch

December 10, 2006

Discuss antisemitism on campus-today at noon in San Francisco

B’nai B’rith International has created a panel discussion about the issue of anti Semitism on campus, which will take place TODAY Sunday, December 10 at Noon Congregation Beth Israel-Judea in San Francisco at 625 Brotherhood Way. Find out about what’s . . . more »

Judith | 12/10/06 at 10:45 AM | 0 Comments | 1 TrackBacks | Categories: - Antisemitism watch

Denounce Judaism and Get an A

Ukranian immigrant and San Francisco Bay Area Jewish activist Aleksandra Fliegler speaks to the need for Jews to start standing up against anti-Semitism on college campuses and demonstrating pride and strength in their heritage. (To that end, B'nai B'rith International . . . more »

Cinnamon | 12/10/06 at 08:00 AM | 1 Comments | 1 TrackBacks | Categories: - Antisemitism watch

December 06, 2006

More Examples of Mob Rule on College Campuses

No sooner had my last SFGate column, "Mob Rule on College Campuses" come out, when bullying behavior reared its ugly head on America's college campuses yet again. Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo, one of the strongest anti-illegal immigration voices in politics, . . . more »

Cinnamon | 12/06/06 at 02:44 PM | 4 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Antisemitism watch

December 05, 2006

The Jew Bushinsky and All His Works

One formula for dealing with anti-semitism. Sasha Baron Cohen makes use of another one in Borat - satire. Perhaps it is not a surprise, though, that the mindset revealed in the two situations is actually quite similar, considering where "Kazakhstan" . . . more »

Alcibiades | 12/05/06 at 01:20 PM | 2 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Antisemitism watch

November 30, 2006

Carter on the Jews

In an intriguing article on Jimmy Carter, we learn some more details about Carter's early political history with Jewish Democrats during his Presidential run and his Presidency, including this gem. In Dangerous Liaison: The Inside Story of the U.S.-Israeli Covert . . . more »

Alcibiades | 11/30/06 at 10:27 PM | 10 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Antisemitism watch

October 24, 2006

A dubious distinction

Via LGF, the latest hate-crime stats from the FBI. The good news is that hate-crimes in 2005 dropped 6% from the year before. The bad news is that in the religious bias category, Jews still lead the list by a . . . more »

Judith | 10/24/06 at 07:07 AM | 4 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Antisemitism watch

October 16, 2006

BBC - The News Suppression Corporation

Not only is the BBC biased against Israel, which one can observe simply by watching it. But now it turns out, the BBC is going to court, using public funds supplied to them by the execrable license act (of which . . . more »

Alcibiades | 10/16/06 at 11:14 AM | 5 Comments | 2 TrackBacks | Categories: - Antisemitism watch

October 13, 2006

The reality of being a friend to the Jews

Walid Shoebat sent around this email rant in May, and I think I linked to it. But since his name was in the news yesterday it's time to link again. Just read the whole thing. Send it to your friends. . . . more »

Judith | 10/13/06 at 07:02 AM | 3 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Antisemitism watch

September 22, 2006

More Democrat Party Anti-Semitism

As an addendum to yesterday's post on George Allen's discovery that he is Jewish, we learn, via the Captain, that Allen's campaign is now reporting on James Webb's anti-semitic tricks in his campaign to replace Allen as Senator. Several of . . . more »

Alcibiades | 09/22/06 at 12:27 PM | 0 Comments | 2 TrackBacks | Categories: - Antisemitism watch

Where Exactly is the Line, Lisa?

We were remiss yesterday not to cover news of Columbia's invitation to Ahmadinejad to speak at the University at its World Leaders Forum. Eliana Johnon at the NYSun - still my favorite paper, even though for the last 3 weeks . . . more »

Alcibiades | 09/22/06 at 10:49 AM | 0 Comments | 1 TrackBacks | Categories: - Antisemitism watch

September 21, 2006

The Knights of St. John, Recantation

The other day I reported on an historical victory the Knight's of St. John had against the Ottoman's on September 11th, 1565 on the island of Malta. What I didn't know at that time, however, is that the Knights had . . . more »

Alcibiades | 09/21/06 at 01:08 PM | 1 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Antisemitism watch

So George Allen Is Jewish after all

Does it make a difference? Not much, although one day it might to him. Still, at the very least, it's an interesting story. His mother is from the well known Jewish Tunisian Lumbroso family. But after witnessing her father's treatment . . . more »

Alcibiades | 09/21/06 at 11:09 AM | 1 Comments | 2 TrackBacks | Categories: - Antisemitism watch

September 10, 2006

Minhag Anglia

Melanie Phillips, in one of her bravura pieces, calls British Jewry to task for failing to make a peep while Israel was culmniated left, right and center, during the recent War in Lebanon. Nary a peep from the Jews, which . . . more »

Alcibiades | 09/10/06 at 03:23 PM | 1 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Antisemitism watch

September 07, 2006

Flying while Hassidic

Karol links to this story about passengers being weirded out by an orthodox Jew davening on a plane. The airplane was heading toward the runway at the Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport when eyewitnesses said the Orthodox man began to . . . more »

Judith | 09/07/06 at 09:50 PM | 5 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Antisemitism watch

September 03, 2006

Fickle Europe

A friend sent me this handy graphic about something many of us have noticed over the past few years..... It would make a catchy t-shirt, no? . . . more »

Judith | 09/03/06 at 12:34 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Antisemitism watch

August 15, 2006

Keeping the Jewish Community Safe

I got a link yesterday to the Secure Community Network (SCN), which keeps Jewish organizations informed of terrorism threats and prevention techniques. Given the huge need, I was pleased to learn about this year-old effort. The freshness of information on . . . more »

Van | 08/15/06 at 07:04 AM | 2 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Antisemitism watch

August 12, 2006

54 Years Ago

I have seen nothing online about the anniversary of August 12, 1952, when Joseph Stalin had murdered 13 of the greatest Yiddish poets of the Soviet Union, in the Lubyanka prison. Joshua Rubenstein documented the crime and its context in . . . more »

Van | 08/12/06 at 11:31 PM | 1 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Antisemitism watch

August 10, 2006

Pamela Waechter - ger tzedek

Stop urging me to abandon you! For wherever you go, I will go. Wherever you live, I will live. Your people will become my people, and your God will become my God. Wherever you die, I will die – . . . more »

Judith | 08/10/06 at 11:59 AM | 1 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Antisemitism watch

August 08, 2006

Russ Lieber, Liberal Jew

I know way too many people like this (and some of them are in Olmert's immediate family). I appreciate the opportunity to make fun of them. Start the video and cringe laugh along with me. You need to see this . . . more »

Judith | 08/08/06 at 10:30 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Antisemitism watch

August 04, 2006

Attack in Seattle: The Fall-out in Stamford, and Deceptive Words

The Islamist attack against the Jewish Federation in Seattle quickly had a noticeable impact at the Jewish Community Center here in Stamford, Conn., which also houses the United Jewish Federation of our area. I noticed new measures when I went . . . more »

Van | 08/04/06 at 07:30 AM | 4 Comments | 1 TrackBacks | Categories: - Antisemitism watch

July 31, 2006

Foxman calls for hate-crime probe on Mel Gibson

Mad Mel update. Via Jewlicious: As it says in the Talmud: nichnas yayin, yotzie sod (Lit. in goes wine and out come secrets.) But this is silly. I generally think Foxman is a good guy and most of his targets . . . more »

Judith | 07/31/06 at 11:56 AM | 7 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Antisemitism watch

July 30, 2006

Mad Mel's Magical Mystery Teshuva Tour '06

Mel Gibson's drunken anti-semitic harangue, reported here and elsewhere, strikes me as potentially a dazzling marketing ploy for his new movie, the Mayan-language "Apocalypto." Gibson parlayed his hand on "The Passion of the Christ" brilliantly, so he could flip this . . . more »

Van | 07/30/06 at 12:07 PM | 7 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Antisemitism watch

Heroic Jewish women

[ UPDATE: Michelle Malkin reminds us of other shooting rampages by American Muslims of the past 10 years. More on the LAX El Al ticket counter shooting. ] More on the Seattle Jewish Federation shooting - some details that'll curl . . . more »

Judith | 07/30/06 at 12:20 AM | 1 Comments | 2 TrackBacks | Categories: - Antisemitism watch

July 29, 2006

Mad Mel redux

We had occasion to write a lot about Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" when it came out. That and our coverage of "Munich" may be the most thorough fiskings of films you have ever seen. So now that . . . more »

Judith | 07/29/06 at 08:56 PM | 3 Comments | 3 TrackBacks | Categories: - Antisemitism watch

July 28, 2006

European antisemitism comes to America

[ UPDATE: More about the perpetrator, who also worked at a nuclear waste facility at one point. His father was actively involved in their Muslim community, the son not so much. So maybe he got all his Israel hatred from . . . more »

Judith | 07/28/06 at 11:50 PM | 11 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Antisemitism watch

Gallery of supercilious antisemitic boycott letters

In addition to the well-publicized academic boycotts, Israelis have been subject to informal boycotts often initiated by customer-facing employees in organizations which may not approve of their particular biases, or covert boycotts which are company policy, but invisible until you . . . more »

Judith | 07/28/06 at 06:44 AM | 10 Comments | 6 TrackBacks | Categories: - Antisemitism watch

July 25, 2006

Once more into the breach, dear friends

Somebody just pointed me to this hand-flailing item which uncritically regurgitates Richard Cohen's ignorance about Jewish history. I'm really tired of this crap. Somebody else fisk it. Pull anything you find useful from my Jewish history post or Richard's dialogue . . . more »

Judith | 07/25/06 at 11:55 PM | 10 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Antisemitism watch

Israel is a mistake, but has the right to defend itself

Richard Cohen sort of walks back his "Israel is a mistake" column of last week (which I fisked here). I'm not going to address here his conflicting advice to "hunker down" yet "strike back." My concern is his continued misunderstanding . . . more »

Judith | 07/25/06 at 03:37 PM | 7 Comments | 2 TrackBacks | Categories: - Antisemitism watch

July 06, 2006

Eurabia Here We Come: Wackademics Censor the Truth in the Netherlands

According to a large majority of the chancellors of the Dutch universities, it is now verboten to criticize Islam in Dutch universities. Because it is inappropriate and dangerous and there might be violence as a result of so speaking. From . . . more »

Alcibiades | 07/06/06 at 07:59 PM | 2 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Antisemitism watch

July 05, 2006

Stop the Stop the ACLU Coalition

[ UPDATE: Jay updated his post. Glenn Greenwald gives an impassioned tour of " The thug and intimidation tactics of the Far Right," but doesn't mention any leftwing bloggers doing the same. I wish I could respect him too. ] . . . more »

Judith | 07/05/06 at 09:06 PM | 11 Comments | 4 TrackBacks | Categories: - Antisemitism watch

June 24, 2006

Follow the Leader

The Episcopalian Church follows the Presbyterians on renouncing anti-Israel rhetoric. The US Episcopal Church has taken a significant pro-Israel turn at its triennial General Convention, joining the Presbyterians in abandoning pro-Palestinian rhetoric and adopting a resolution repudiating anti-Jewish interpretations of . . . more »

Alcibiades | 06/24/06 at 10:24 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Antisemitism watch

June 08, 2006

That's My France! Black Wackos Run Amok in Jewish Quarter, Flics Shrug, Jews Cower

This disturbing story out of Paris combines anti-semitic violence, Jewish passivity, and a Gaullic shrug of the shoulders by French flics, with a flicker of concern from French Minister Nicolas Sarkozy. Read it all; these excerpts set the depressing scene: . . . more »

Van | 06/08/06 at 07:37 AM | 5 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Antisemitism watch

June 07, 2006

Anti-Israel bias comes to high school

[ UPDATE: Andover High School is looking into the Ron Francis' encouragement of students in his pet causes. ] The NATFHE boycott is the latest attempt in academia to demonize and isolate Israel. As with similar campaigns of the past . . . more »

Judith | 06/07/06 at 05:05 PM | 5 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Antisemitism watch

May 31, 2006

Dhimmi badges redux

[ UPDATE: On the one hand, I love being able to post at Winds of Change and get a larger audience. On the other hand, my posts there get all the comments and hits, for example big discussion on this . . . more »

Judith | 05/31/06 at 02:16 PM | 9 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Antisemitism watch

The Politics of Boycotting

There is good news of a sort on the British teaching union, NATFHE's, boycott of Israel. The AUT, the union that passed the boycott last year, then decisively rescinded it in a much larger vote, sent out a press release . . . more »

Alcibiades | 05/31/06 at 08:17 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Antisemitism watch

May 29, 2006

The Good News and the Bad News

There's some positive news from the Presbyterian Church leadership - a recommendation from a group of eleven Presbyterian Church (USA) leaders who completed a five day fact finding mission to end its policy of divestment. While adoption of the divestment . . . more »

Alcibiades | 05/29/06 at 10:02 AM | 2 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Antisemitism watch

May 28, 2006

That's My Poland!

Why should the French have all the fun? Poland's Chief Rabbi, Michael Schudrich, was punched and pepper-sprayed in Warsaw yesterday, by a young man yelling "Poland for Poles!" Witnesses helped police compile a sketch of the attacker, and the drawing . . . more »

Van | 05/28/06 at 09:02 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Antisemitism watch

May 19, 2006

Yellow Badges for Jews, Red Badges for Christians...

[ New UPDATE: (from Alcibiades) Thanks to Judith for updating and correcting while I was away. When I left town on Friday, no one was yet disputing the story, and I return to find it largely discredited, with one exception. . . . more »

Alcibiades | 05/19/06 at 10:45 AM | 5 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Antisemitism watch

May 17, 2006

Connection to Israel Suddenly Undesirable?

Josh Gerstein, a star story breaker at the New York Sun, is reporting this morning that there appears to be a pattern involving revoking the security clearances of people who need Defense Department security clearances and have a strong connection . . . more »

Alcibiades | 05/17/06 at 08:24 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Antisemitism watch

May 03, 2006

Walt & Mearsheimer roundup

If you want to understand the intellectual environment which produced the Walt & Mearsheimer paper, read this. If you want to know how long W & M have been on the mattress - here you go. (That was posted on . . . more »

Judith | 05/03/06 at 04:04 AM | 2 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Antisemitism watch

April 24, 2006

Juan Cole: a disgrace to scholarship

Like many academics, University of Michigan professor Juan Cole is a well-known habitue of the political blogosphere. Most academics, mindful of their professional reputations, make their points with dignity and careful application of their expertise. Cole, however, comes out swinging . . . more »

Judith | 04/24/06 at 08:51 PM | 8 Comments | 2 TrackBacks | Categories: - Antisemitism watch

April 18, 2006

Guess Who Is Coming to the Faculty?

Here's a tidbit to turn the stomach right before the final days of the holidays. Guess who Yale is thinking of appointing as as Faculty in the Middle East department? Yale University is on the verge of offering a faculty . . . more »

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