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Google reassigns diversity chief for writing in 2007 that Jews have an ‘insatiable appetite for war’

June 3, 2021Mark Hershlag

Google reassigns diversity chief for writing in 2007 that Jews have an ‘insatiable appetite for war’ – Jewish Telegraphic Agency Skip to content Advertisement Advertisement

When “Antifa” Is the Enemy

June 3, 2021David Rutman, Meghan Froy

Over the last several years, debates over antisemitism and Israel/Palestine have roiled the German-speaking world. In 2019, the director of Berlin’s Jewish Museum, Peter Schäfer, was forced to resign after the museum tweeted about a petition against the German government’s decision to designate the BDS movement as antisemitic. In the spring of 2020, Germany’s (non-Jewish) […]

Nikki Fried, Florida’s Jewish agricultural commissioner, announces run for governor

June 1, 2021Mark Hershlag

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Who Owns American Judaism?

June 1, 2021David Rutman, Meghan Froy

This review appears in our Spring 2021 issue. Subscribe now to receive a copy in your mailbox. Discussed in this essay: The American Jewish Philanthropic Complex: The History of a Multibillion-Dollar Institution, by Lila Corwin Berman. Princeton University Press, 2020. 280 pages. IN THE WINTER OF 2018, I found myself in a summer camp in the Santa Monica mountains, learning […]

Police chief in Michigan apologizes for liking pro-Israel Facebook post

May 30, 2021Mark Hershlag

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Rutgers University’s chancellor condemned antisemitism — then apologized for doing so

May 28, 2021Mark Hershlag

(JTA) — The chancellor of New Jersey’s flagship public university condemned antisemitism and then, following protest from a pro-Palestinian student group, apologized for the condemnation. On Wednesday, the chancellor of Rutgers University-New Brunswick, Christopher J. Molloy, released a statement condemning antisemitism, which spiked across the country during and after the recent fighting in Israel and […]

A TABLEAU OF ASPIRATION OR FRANKLIN SITTING ON THE SOLITARY GARDEN DECK CHAIR IN 1973’s A CHARLIE BROWN THANKSGIVING

May 28, 2021David Rutman, Meghan Froy

In the period immediately following spectacular violence, a poem will often go viral on social media. It makes sense that poetry might offer a way out from that space of unrepresentable trauma—a path back to a social form where the true work of redress can take place. Sometimes, though, the turn to poetry feels both […]

The Rise of the New Settler State

May 27, 2021David Rutman, Meghan Froy

TWO WEEKS AGO, when fighting ignited across Israel’s so-called “mixed cities” between far-right Jewish vigilantes and groups of mostly young Palestinian men, the city of Lod (in Arabic, Lydda) was the epicenter. After a May 10th demonstration by Palestinian citizens of Israel—who make up roughly a quarter of the city’s population—armed Jewish residents shot and […]

A Closer Look at the ‘Uptick’ in Antisemitism

May 27, 2021David Rutman, Meghan Froy

THIS WEEK, President Joe Biden met with leaders from five major American Jewish organizations in response to a letter expressing concerns about a “surge in antisemitic attacks,” which the groups connect to popular discourse and protest surrounding Israel’s military campaign in Gaza. Republican Senators Tom Cotton and Mitch McConnell announced their intention to introduce a […]

Calling Israel ‘apartheid’ and ‘terrorist’ is antisemitic, say 4 Jewish Democrats targeting party colleagues

May 26, 2021Mark Hershlag

Calling Israel ‘apartheid’ and ‘terrorist’ is antisemitic, say 4 Jewish Democrats targeting party colleagues – Jewish Telegraphic Agency Skip to content Advertisement Advertisement