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The phenomenon of left wing anti-Semitism is not, sadly, new. Some prominent early socialists were openly anti-Semitic. Some Marxists, too, argued (although not Karl Marx himself) that anti-Semitism had a “rational kernel” and could be used to win support for…

In Berlin, am Ufer des idyllischen Grossen Wannsees, liegt die in den letzten Jahrzehnten des 19. Jahrhunderts erschlossene Villenkolonie Alsen, in der sich zahlreiche jüdische und nichtjüdische Großbürger Sommer-Residenzen errichtet haben. Eine dieser prachtvollen Villen mit Geschichte ist die Wannseevilla,…

Yaakov Katz and Amir Bohbot, authors of The Weapon Wizards: How Israel Became a High-Tech Military Superpower (St. Martin’s Press 2017), prove themselves to be far more than experienced and skilled military journalists (Mr. Katz is now the Editor of…

Richard Cravatts is a man who knows his subject well. A former professor, former president of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) and author of Genocidal Liberalism: The University’s Jihad Against Israel and Jews (2012), Cravatts has had…

Dreams Deferred: A Concise Guide to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and the Movement to Boycott Israel, by Cary Nelson, (MLA Members for Scholars’ Rights and Indiana University Press, 2016). ISBN 978-0-253-02516-6. 396 pp. Cary Nelson — whose impressive credentials include being…

Martin Kramer chairs the Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Department at Shalem College, having recently completed a seven year stint as president there. A scholar of the Middle East, Kramer is perhaps best known as a sharp critic of the…

„Zum Einzigartigen, das mit dem Namen Hitlers verbunden ist, gehört seine unverminderte Gegenwärtigkeit“. (Joachim Fest, 1995) Die Deutschen kommen von Hitler nicht los! Dabei hatte Hitlers Herrschaft und sein 12 Jahre währendes  „3. Reich“ eine bis dahin nicht gewesene Bilanz…

Among the lamentably small coterie of Jewish intellectuals and academics who defend Israel against the anti-Zionist tirades of its legions of liberal and leftist Jewish critics Edward Alexander ranks high. His new collection of essays, Jews Against Themselves (Transaction Publishers),…