antisemitism

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• 1/19/20
  

  A Courageous Catholic Voice Against Antisemitism

  by Stephen H. Norwood and Rafael Medoff

  As the harassment and beatings of Jews in the streets of Boston reached epidemic levels in 1943, one hundred Jewish boys and girls, ages 12 to 16, sent a poignant petition to the mayor. 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  12/12/19
  

  Donald Trump is attacking both Jews and the left with one clean blow

  by Kate Aronoff

  Anti-Semitism and anti-leftism share a violent and intimate history that is being revived under Donald Trump.

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• 10/13/19
  

  Trump and A History of Presidential Anti-Semitism

  by Donne Levy

  As with so many Trump blunders, he is apparently ignorant of the history and nature of anti-Semitism in America.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  8/21/19
  

  Trump's tweets about 'disloyal' Jews are laced with centuries of antisemitism

  by Emma Goldberg

  There’s a sordid history to charges of Jewish dual loyalty in the US – and that history is alive and well.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  4/8/19
  

  A Look At The History Of The America Is 'Full' Phrase Trump Has Used A Lot Recently

  That line, our country is full, has a particular resonance for Jews. 

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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."