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.