Anti-Semitic Acts Don't Have to Involve Hatred of Jews
Many of those who would do away with Israel evince no pre-existing hostility to Jews that I can see. But their motivations are beside the point.
The Emerging War over Anti-Semitism
To understand the significance of a new definition of anti-Semitism speciously promising clarity and fairness, we need to see whose interests it serves, not what its supporters believe.
Q and the Jews
Where did QAnon come from, what attitudes does the conspiracy movement take toward Jews and Judaism, and will it become more dangerous or fade away?
How the Left Turned Against Israel
In 1948, the nascent state enjoyed political support from almost the entire global left. A new book by a member of today’s left takes a close look at how and why that changed.
Socialism and the Jews: A Brief History
Socialism, so recently considered over and done with, is now back. What does it mean for the Jews?
It's Not So Easy to Distinguish Attitudes toward the Jewish State from Attitudes toward Jews
As in the past, so today, anti-Semitism shows itself to be a virus almost infinitely protean.
Did American Racism Inspire the Nazis?
A new book claims as much—and in so doing falls into the intellectual trap known as reductio ad Hitlerum.
Taking History into Their Own Hands
A new book by Daniel Gordis traces “one of the most extraordinary human stories of all time”—and makes clear that the story continues in similar fashion today.
Why I Changed My Mind about Anti-Semitism and Anti-Israelism
I once thought it possible to address the world’s turn against Israel without bringing in anti-Semitism. No longer.
France's Long Ambivalent Relationship with the Jews
The image of a “French republican idyll” masks a history of repeated anti-Jewish prejudice, and worse.
A Tree Grows in Lublin
Remembering Jan Karski, the Pole who told FDR to his face about the Holocaust, and still wondered if he’d done enough.
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