Racist incitement is an opportunistic tool for Trump, as is his over-hyped ‘support’ for Israel. A president who believes in nothing can be counted on…
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Claiming anti-Semitism is the worst form of hatred, and any criticism of Israel is irredeemably anti-Semitic, is a crucial deflection for racist nationalists like Trump.…
Adelson’s drooling suggestion mirrors the quasi-Messianic way Trump’s religious fans refer to him. But we religious Jews cannot be complicit in his racism, just because…
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Rafi Peretz can’t get why calling U.S. Jewish assimilation a ‘second Holocaust’ is so offensive. It shows that Israel’s religious nationalists now have about as…
When pro-Israel Trump invites an alt-right, anti-Semitic cartoonist into the White House, even if he’s belatedly ditched, Jewish supporters have to face an unpleasant truth…
I was arrested blocking access to a migrant detention facility. More and more U.S. Jews recognize the urgent moral necessity of doing more than just…
If Democratic hopefuls encounter a radical pro-Palestinian group which rejects Jewish sovereignty and two states, they should ignore them, right? Let’s see their response to…
The DC Dyke March singled out Jewish symbols and queer Jews for policing and exclusion. I mourned another social justice space where I was not…
Pittsburgh and Poway were an abstract horror for me until last week, when the arson wave hit my own Chicago synagogue. U.S. Jews now join…
The religious Jewish community cannot justify staying on the sidelines of the abortion debate, writes an ultra-Orthodox health care researcher Source: https://www.haaretz.com
The evangelical crusade making its way from Alabama to the Supreme Court will force American Jews to submit to their distinctly Christian anti-abortion dogma Source:…
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Eisenhower fought back when synagogues and black churches were attacked. His decisive, concrete steps are just as relevant now, for Trump, facing the deadliest year…
We’ve taught our kids about the Holocaust as an abstract, remote fire drill. Now, it doesn’t feel that way anymore Source: https://www.haaretz.com
When white supremacists attacked synagogues and black churches, Eisenhower fought back. Trump must be more like Ike Source: https://www.haaretz.com
In the age of Donald Trump, American Jews increasingly identify with persecuted minorities – while Israelis see them as a threat Source: https://www.haaretz.com
There’s a reason Trump and U.S. conservatives are so obsessed with one anti-Semitic NYT cartoon: it’s called deflection. Don’t play along with their serial denial…
Liberal U.S. Jews fear Trump as much as far right shooters. That’s illogical, foolish and damaging Source: https://www.haaretz.com
From Trump to the New York Times, neither Republicans nor Democrats can claim innocence. They’re both feeding anti-Semitism in America Source: https://www.haaretz.com