antisemitism

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• 12/30/2018
  

  Alice Walker: In Her Own Words

  by Robert Cohen

  By reading a recent poem she wrote we can make a fuller assessment of the charge that she's anti-Semitic. 

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• SOURCE: KUOW
  12-19-2018
  

  Seattle history teacher targeted by Alex Jones and trolls for lambasting YouTuber PewDiePie for antisemitism

  The teacher warned that students were encouraging racism and antisemitism by subscfribing to the YouTuber's video channel.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  12-21-2018
  

  Alice Walker, Answering Backlash, Praises Anti-Semitic Author as ‘Brave’

  The author, David Icke, backs the teaching in schools of Holocaust denial.

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• 12/20/2018
  

  Alice Walker's Not Guilty of Antisemitism

  by Robert Cohen

  As a student at Spelman, at risk to herself, she rose to the defense of the Jewish historian Howard Zinn. She remains proud of that defense to this day. 

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• SOURCE: The Cut
  12-14-2018
  

  What the Hell Is Going on With the Women’s March?

  Tablet magazine has published a 10,000-plus-word investigation detailing allegations of antisemitism against Women’s March organizers.

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• SOURCE: hagalil.com
  11-5-2018
  

  Hungary: Zero Tolerance for Anti-Semitism?

  by Karl Pfeifer

  Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s claims to the contrary Jews are living in fear in Hungary – and with good reason.

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• SOURCE: Haaretz
  11-20-18
  

  Israeli Academics and Artists Warn Against Equating anti-Zionism With anti-Semitism

  Their open letter ahead of a conference in Vienna advises against giving Israel immunity for ‘grave and widespread violations of human rights and international law.’

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• SOURCE: The Globe and Mail
  11-6-18
  

  Justin Trudeau apology to Canadian Jews for turning away the desperate refugees of the St. Louis in 1939

  Hundreds died in Nazi death camps.

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• SOURCE: Politico
  11-2-18
  

  America’s Forgotten Pogroms

  by David Greenberg

  In the 1940s, a right-wing group terrorized Jewish communities in Boston and New York while authorities looked the other way. Could it happen again?

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  11-5-18 (accessed)
  

  Reigns of Terror in America

  by Jill Lepore

  From a 1958 synagogue bombing in Atlanta to the events of recent weeks, the bloody-mindedness of broken men can be countered only by principle and fortitude.

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• 10-30-18
  

  This Is Where Antisemitism Leads

  by Robert Scott Kellner

  What a German diary from the Nazi era teaches us.

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• 10/30/18
  

  The Frightening Echo of Stalin’s Antisemtic Campaign Is Impossible to Ignore

  by Tarik Cyril Amar

  Then, it was “rootless cosmopolitans” who were targeted. Now it’s globalists.

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• SOURCE: Haaretz
  10-29-18
  

  From Lynchings to Mass Shootings: The History of Deadly Attacks on Jews in America

  Lethal attacks on U.S. Jews in their homeland have been very rare, with Saturday’s mass shooting in Pittsburgh more than doubling the total number of fatalities – but white supremacists have targeted the community over the years.

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• 10/30/18
  

  UPDATED What Historians Are Saying About the Pittsburgh Shooting and the Florida Bomber

  Their tweets and retweets.

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• 10/27/18
  

  And Now – Pittsburgh

  by Ed Simon

  "I feel completely entitled to examine the poisonous fruit of our current political culture."

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• SOURCE: Socialist Worker
  8-4-18
  

  Ilan Pappe on Israel, Palestine and antisemitism

  "Fear works if you cave in.”

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• SOURCE: NYT
  8-5-18
  

  Anti-Semitic Graffiti Scrawled on Childhood Home of Elie Wiesel in Romania

  The act of vandalism occurred months after Romania’s Parliament passed a law in June to prevent and combat episodes of anti-Semitism.

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• SOURCE: Newsweek
  8-1-18
  

  Donald Trump Keeps Calling Adversaries ‘Globalists,’ Despite Warnings It’s Anti-Semitic

  In Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler referred to Jewish people as "international elements that ‘conduct their business everywhere.’ "

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  5-2-18
  

  It’s right to condemn Mahmoud Abbas for his antisemitic remarks

  by Jonathan Freedland

  Supporting someone’s cause also means calling them out when they are wrong. The Palestinian leader’s views on Jews and the Holocaust are unacceptable.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  5-2-18
  

  Netanyahu accuses Palestinian president of antisemitism

  Abbas accused by US and Israel of stirring religious hatred in speech blaming Jewish role in banking for historical massacres.