Book Reviews

“Antisemitism and the Postcolonial Theory. The ‘progressive’ attack on Israel, Judaism, and the Holocaust Remembrance” is one of the new books which were published in Germany in the aftermath of 10/7/23. It is written by a renowned expert on the…

The book by the new Chief Editor of the weekly newspaper Juedische Allgemeine, an official organ of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, has been written under the impact of October 7, 2023 and its traumatic aftermath when the…

Challenging the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement focuses on the efforts to oppose antisemitism, the academic boycott, and the BDS movement. The State of Israel has faced many threats, most of them military, since it was established in 1948, but…

In den Kriegstagen, die dem Überfall der vom Iran gesteuerten Hamas auf Israel und dem barbarischen Massaker vom 7.Oktober 2023, dem „Black Sabbath“ folgten ist weltweit vom muslimischen Judenhass die Rede. Vielfach wird aber der schon im Koran und den…

In May of this year, a New York Times explainer on Islamic Jihad described the terrorist group as: “founded in the 1980s in the Gaza Strip to fight the Israeli occupation.” The article allowed that Iran funds Islamic Jihad and…

American Jews were very fortunate in North America to be welcomed by societies with strong liberal streaks. The U.S. and Canada offered freedom, respect, and opportunity beyond what had been available to Jews in their European points of origin. Not…

“Judenfeindschaft kann man nicht ohne die Macht der Sprachgewalt erklären und bekämpfen.” Diese fundamentale Einsicht hat die Kognitionswissenschaftlerin und Antisemitismusforscherin Monika Schwarz-Friesel in ihrem neuen Buch ” Toxische Sprache und geistige Gewalt, Wie judenfeindliche Denk- und Gefühlsmuster seit Jahrhunderten unsere…

In 2017, a controversy embroiled Bret Weinstein, a self-described liberal, white professor at Evergreen State College, who was vilified by students when he refused to stay off campus on the School’s Day of Absence, an annual event during which Evergreen’s…

Saul Bellow once remarked that what America meant was the “universal eligibility to be noble.” He thus merged the ancient love of what’s best by nature, in light of eternity, with the modern love of equality, illumined by the flickering…

Mit “Politischer Islam, Stresstest für Deutschland” (2019) hat Susanne Schröter, die Leiterin des Frankfurter Forschungszentrums “Globaler Islam” und Mitglied des SPME-Germany, ein wichtiges Buch geschrieben. Es dürfte die erste kritische Auseinandersetzung mit der hiesigen islamistischen Verbände- und Vereinslandschaft im akademischen…