antisemitism 
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SOURCE: World Socialist Website
4/25/2022
World Socialist Website: Tim Snyder Changes Conclusions on Ukrainian Fascism
Have influential historians of Eastern European nationalism and antisemitism softened their assessment of Ukrainian nationalism because of the Russian invasion?
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SOURCE: LitHub
4/9/2022
James Baldwin's Essay "Negroes are Anti-Semitic Because they're Anti-White" 55 Years Later
by Jacques Berlinerblau and Terrence L. Johnson
"He appears to be attacking one thing (i.e., the Jews), yet his true targets lie elsewhere."
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SOURCE: American Association of University Professors
4/1/2022
AAUP ID's Legislative Threats to Academic Freedom: Redefinitions of Antisemitism and Racism
A recent AAUP report connects two politicized areas of inquiry – the history of racism in America and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict – as the principal targets of right-wing efforts to censor reseach and teaching.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
3/22/2022
Does Zelensky's Image Upend Stereotypes about Jewish Masculinity?
by Miriam Eve Mora
The emergence of Ukraine's Jewish president as an exemplar of wartime valor challenges longstanding stereotypes about Jewish men.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
3/17/2022
The Antisemite on Your TV
Fox News talking head and former Trump diplomatic nominee Douglas Macgregor is a prominent font of familiar antisemitic conspiracy theories, writes Yair Rosenberg.
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SOURCE: Jewish Journal
3/14/2022
Holocaust Echoes in Ukraine Conspiracy Theories
by Rafael Medoff
Some reactions to the news coverage of horrors visited on civilians echo excuses and minimization of Nazi violence against Jews, including claims that the stories are part of a campaign of emotional manipulation.
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SOURCE: Forward
3/8/2022
Sen. Ron Johnson Blocks Lipstadt Nomination to Global Antisemitism Panel
The Wisconsin Republican instead met with representatives of the trucker protest convoy.
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SOURCE: The Guardian
2/26/2022
The Antisemitism Underlying Putin's Claim to "Denazify" Ukraine
by Jason Stanley
"Putin, the leader of Russian Christian nationalism, has come to view himself as the global leader of Christian nationalism, and is increasingly regarded as such by Christian nationalists around the world."
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SOURCE: Salon
3/1/2022
Too Much Reality: Putin's Invasion Inevitably Surfaces Europe's Dark Past
by Jim Sleeper
Responses to the Russian invasion of Ukraine can't turn away from the possibility of mass atrocity like those visited on Eastern European Jews and resistance fighters by Nazis and Stalinists.
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SOURCE: Perspectives on History
2/17/2022
American Antisemitism and Nationalism in the Charlottesville Verdict
by Victoria Saker Woeste
The awarding of $25 million in damages from the organizers of the Unite the Right rally to nine people injured in the violence are not enough of a penalty to stop the political mobilization of antisemitism in the new white nationalist coalition.
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SOURCE: Salon
2/7/2022
"Blacks and Jews" Authors: Whoopi Not the Enemy, but Gaps of Understanding are Real
Attributing either the Holocaust or anti-Black racism to "man's inhumanity to man" ignores the specific roles of ideology and politics in creating systemic racism. The authors of a new book on Black-Jewish relations in America discuss how discourse goes astray between the general and the specific.
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SOURCE: Forward
1/31/2022
Will Senate Move Deborah Lipstadt Appointment to Global Antisemitism Panel?
Leading American Jewish organizations have stressed the need for leadership and scholarship in the face of antisemitic incidents worldwide, and urged the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to advance Dr. Lipstadt's nomination.
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1/23/2022
Antisemitism is Toxic and Persistent. It's Not Inevitable
by Ralph Seliger
International Holocaust Remembrance Day (January 27) follows an armed hostage incident at a Texas synagogue. The author reflects on moments when societies have chosen to embrace or reject antisemitism at moments of crisis and concludes that while the risk to Jews today is real, it is not inevitable.
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SOURCE: New York Times
12/2/2021
In Zemmour, France's Old Bigotry Finds New Voice
by Mitchell Abidor and Miguel Lago
Presidential candidate Éric Zemmour's Jewishness should not be a shield for his manipulation of France's historical bigotries for political gain.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
11/28/2021
Deborah Lipstadt Appointment to Global Antisemitism Monitor Blocked by Partisan Obstructionism
"Right now, American influence is MIA and real Jews are suffering while Republicans play politics with this position."
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SOURCE: The Conversation
11/12/2021
Al Levy's Court Martial: An American Dreyfus Affair
by Jeannette Gabriel
Al Levy's court martial exposed the discrimination embedded in American military culture during World War II, and the way that antisemitism informed the way his accusers questioned his loyalty.
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SOURCE: Forward
11/3/2021
Lipstadt "Taken Aback" by Antisemitic Symbols at Charlottesville
Deborah Lipstadt's testimony featured discussion of the historical content of antisemitism; her cross examination by defendant Christopher Caldwell included crass questions about Holocaust jokes.
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SOURCE: New York Times
11/2/2021
Charlottesville Civil Trial Brings Deborah Lipstadt into Court Against Hate Again
In a 48-page report she prepared for the trial, Lipstadt wrote that “this fear of active replacement by the Jew, derived directly from the historical underpinnings of antisemitism, is a central feature of contemporary antisemitism.”
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SOURCE: CNN
9/28/2021
Why I Hope My Kids Never Read Roald Dahl
by David M. Perry
"The Dahl family has apologized for Roald Dahl's anti-Semitism, but the question remains, for readers and viewers, for TV producers and writers: what might it mean to eat the fruit from this poisoned tree?"
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8/15/2021
Prologue to Annihilation: An Interview with Stephen Norwood
by Eunice G. Pollack
Stephen Norwood's new book focuses on the response of British and American Jews to rising antisemitism in the early 1930s, a period less frequently studied by Holocaust historians than the years after Kristalnacht.
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