In Praise of Germany’s Flawed ‘Culture of Remembrance’
I hope I’m not being naïve in thinking that what these memory activists accomplished endures and their dedication still inspires.
I hope I’m not being naïve in thinking that what these memory activists accomplished endures and their dedication still inspires.
As people in Los Angeles County hope for the dangerous Santa Ana winds to subside, some critics of Israel are fanning antisemitic flames.
“I haven’t been treated right, and you haven’t been treated right,” the presidential nominee told a gathering of Jewish donors.
“I think in the general Australian community now, there is a very clear sentiment emerging against the importation of the hatreds and the violent emotions of the any conflict overseas into Australia.”
Many years ago, as a young reporter, I had the arresting experience of watching in real time as a random group of people spontaneously enforced the American taboo against antisemitism.
“Drop Hillel” states its goals as exposing Hillel as being explicitly Zionists, building alternative, non-Zionist campus organizations and delegitimizing Hillel as an authority on antisemitism.
Some Jewish students, including reporters and editors, viewed post-October 7 coverage by campus newspapers as biased. Their concerns largely went unheard.
“I haven’t been treated right, and you haven’t been treated right,” the presidential nominee told a gathering of Jewish donors.
I do wonder how these Jews think that voting for the person who emboldened the antisemites is going to bring down the level of antisemitism.
“I haven’t been treated right, and you haven’t been treated right,” the presidential nominee told a gathering of Jewish donors.
The “essentialist” antisemitism argument is oddly comforting—It’s not us, it’s them!—but also dangerous.
Plus, a rabbi encounters antisemitism in NYC and Omer Bartov on the IHRA definition.