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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• SOURCE: Tablet
  8/4/2021
  

  The Franklin Prophecy and Antisemitic Forgery for Profit

  by Scott D. Seligman

  Remarks attributed to Benjamin Franklin at the Constitutional Convention calling for the exclusion of Jews from the new nation were concocted by "lifetime anticommunist and antisemitic nutjob" Willam D. Pelley in the 1930s. 

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• 8/1/2021
  

  "Without Pressure from Germany": Hungary's Revisionist History of the Deportation of 18,000 Jews

  by Karl Pfeifer

  The Hungarian government has sought to deny and obscure its responsibility for the deportation of Jews beginning in 1941. 

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• SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times
  7/9/2021
  

  UIC Prof. Richard S. Levy, One of the Foremost Experts on the History of Antisemitism, Dead at 81

  In addition to many articles, translations and contributions to books, Mr. Levy edited the two-volume 2005 book “Antisemitism: A Historical Encyclopedia of Prejudice and Persecution.”

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• 7/4/2021
  

  My Parents' Survival Story Implies A Broader 'Intersectionality'

  by Ralph Seliger

  The attack on Baghdad's Jews in 1941 underscores the ongoing vulnerability of Jews to mob violence. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/1/2021
  

  Anti-Vaxxers are Claiming Centuries of Jewish Suffering to Look like Martyrs

  by Sarah E. Bond

  "Anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers would have us believe that the evil of being encouraged to get a vaccine is the same as the project of ethnic labeling and cleansing undertaken by the Third Reich. It appears at first a farcical analogy, but it’s not without its dangers."

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• 5/9/2021
  

  Reflections on Russia's "Victory Day"

  by Nadya Williams

  Russia's observance of Victory Day prompts reflection on the ways Holocaust survivors and their descendants lived lives shaped by this trauma. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  5/2/2021
  

  Germany’s Anti-Vaccination History Is Riddled With Anti-Semitism

  by Edna Bonhomme

  Antisemitism has often flared during public health crises such as pandemics; it has also attached itself to suspicion of vaccination, a trend that has been disturbingly prominent among German anti-vaxxers. 

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• SOURCE: CNN
  

  COVID Protesters Must Stop Exploiting Symbols of the Holocaust

  by David M. Perry

  "We all need to keep asserting basic truths: vaccinations are safe, public health measures are often complicated and require tradeoffs that we need to be transparent about, and these people cosplaying Holocaust victims are dangerously trivializing the history of the Holocaust."

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• 3/14/2021
  

  Attacking Critical Race Theory: A Modern Campaign of Conversion?

  by Guy Lancaster

  There is a recurrent idea among political elites that particular ideas are the wellspring of social discord and strife, and that ridding society of the idea will usher in unity. The Talmud and the 1619 Project have filled similar roles in different eras.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  2/15/2021
  

  Jews Fear what Follows after Republicans Applauded Marjorie Taylor Greene

  by Deborah Lipstadt

  "Having spent decades studying, teaching, researching and fighting antisemitism, Greene’s claims were familiar territory. All of them – space lasers, 9/11, school shootings, Trump’s election loss and so much else – shared a common theme: conspiracy."

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  2/6/2021
  

  Marjorie Taylor Greene is Just the Latest Radical White Woman Poisoning Politics

  by Elizabeth Gillespie McRae

  White women have been active participants in creating and advancing the politics of white supremacy and eliminationist conspiracy theorizing. Marjorie Taylor Greene's antics are nothing new. 

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• 2/4/2021
  

  How Do You Solve a Problem Like Marjorie?

  The House of Representatives has voted, mostly on party lines, to remove Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from her committee assignments in response to her statements endorsing the Capitol riots and conspiracy theories that school shootings were hoaxes and California wildfires were started by the Rothschild banking family using space lasers.

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• SOURCE: Just Security
  2/4/2021
  

  Movie at the Ellipse: A Study in Fascist Propaganda

  by Jason Stanley

  Not enough attention has been paid to the video shown to spectators at Donald Trump's January 6th "Save America" rally. A close look shows it to be a work of propaganda firmly in the tradition of fascism. 

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• SOURCE: Public Books
  1/27/2021
  

  Minorities and Myths: Antisemitism in Europe after 1919

  by Eileen Kane

  New scholarship complicates the narrative that Jews in the Soviet Union between the wars enjoyed full citizenship rights. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  1/15/2021
  

  That Time Private US Media Companies Stepped in to Silence the Falsehoods and Incitements of a Major Public Figure … In 1938

  by William Kovarik

  "There’s not much that separates, on the one hand, the mad fanaticism that held Jews supposedly responsible for their own persecution in 1938 and, on the other, the fevered delusion of 2020."

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  1/19/2021
  

  France Knows How This Ends

  by James McAuley

  "What is especially useful to remember about the Dreyfus affair now is the point of no return it represented, the repugnant embrace of lies by one half of society, educated people who were not ignorant but who had simply ceased to care."

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  1/8/2021
  

  A Scholar of American Anti-Semitism Explains the Hate Symbols Present During the US Capitol Riot

  by Jonathan D. Sarna

  The presence of conspiracy theorists and overt and coded anti-Semitic messages at the Capitol riot shows that far right ideology continues to target Jews in a conspiratorial, eliminationist worldview.

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• SOURCE: Forward
  12/20/2020
  

  Brandeis U. Press and a Historian Split over how to Talk about Jews and White Supremacy

  The racial justice protests of 2020 pushed up sales of Marc Dollinger's book on political relationships between Jewish and African American groups. But Brandeis University Press has balked at publishing a new introductory essay that suggests American Jews need to acknowledge and confront their privileges as white Americans.