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No, it isn’t time for the Jews to leave Europe
“Is it time for the Jews to leave Europe?” is the title of the 11,000-word cover story in the latest issue of the Atlantic magazine written by the American Jewish journalist Jeffrey Goldberg. His answer? “Yes”. Why, while purporting to write … Continue reading
Posted in Antisemitism, Europe
Tagged America, antisemitism, Islamophobia, Leon Wieseltier
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Muslim hostility to Israel and Jews in Europe: is it antisemitism as we know it?
On 4 August I posted a piece by the Washington-based historian and independent scholar Dr Steven Beller in which he discussed the question: ‘Anti-Jewish hostility provoked by the Gaza offensive: is antisemitism the right word for it?’ It generated a lively response in … Continue reading
Posted in Antisemitism, Middle East
Tagged anti-Zionism, antisemitism, Islamism, Islamophobia, Israel, new antisemitism, Zionism
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Another faulty, pseudo-academic antisemitism initiative
It was inevitable. Another Gaza offensive by Israel begins, ostensibly to stop Hamas from firing rockets into southern Israel, and within a couple of days accusations of antisemitism were flying around. Two particularly caught my attention. The first was the … Continue reading
9/11 and the destruction of the shared understanding of antisemitism
This piece is cross-posted from openDemocracy Even before 9/11, the redefinition of antisemitism as essentially left-wing and Islamic prejudice and discrimination against the Jewish state of Israel—‘the Jew among the nations’—was well underway. But the popularity of this reformulation of … Continue reading
The Norway Killings: Jumping the Gun
The herd mentality of pundits and commentators was on display as they fell over each other to immediately blame the Norway killings on Muslim extremists. It wasn’t long before it became clear that the culprit, Anders Behring Breivik, was a blond … Continue reading
