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On June 2002, at the President’s Residence, Uzi Eilam received the Israeli Security Prize for Lifelong Achievement. The Israel Prize is a mark of recognition for Eilam’s extensive achievements which he documented in his book. Uzi Eilam was born in…
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Neil J. Kressel. Published by Potomac Books Inc., 2012. $18.67 pp. 282 There is a debate in the discussion of contemporary Muslim anti-Semitism about how much of it is based on indigenous sources and how much originates from imported sources.…
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Coming at the end of his twenty-year tenure as the head of George Soros’s mega-philanthropy, the Open Society Foundation (OSF), Aryeh Neier has authored The International Human Rights Movement. This work chronicles the history of the human rights movement, arguing…
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Among anti-Semitism scholars, nothing clears a room faster than the question of whether Jew-hatred is unique. One school of thought says that it is uniquely evil, qualitatively distinct in both severity and character. Let us call all them the Exceptionalists,…
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The discovery of manuscripts hidden in jugs inside caves near Qumran close to the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea remains one of the major archeological finds of all times. Mostly written in Hebrew, with some in Aramaic, the Dead…
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The title of Robert Wistrich’s new book, From Ambivalence to Betrayal:The Left, the Jews, and Israel, may be read as a description or a conclusion. The book delivers only the former. Wistrich, perhaps the world’s foremost expert on anti-Semitism, lays out…
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“As time went on … the Nazis not only became the source of power and wealth and the seekers after Germany’s greatness, but also learned how to handle footnotes and quotations…Hitler was aware of the necessity of presenting anti-Jewish ideology…
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I was a child, not quite ten, rummaging through a bookcase in my grandparents’ house when I came across Martyrs and Fighters. It was on the cover of that dog-eared 1962 paperback, its faded pages brittle to the touch, that…
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Except for its preface and afterword, this book consists of the texts of lectures in a ten-year series initiated by the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Chicago, Joseph Cardinal Bernardin (1928-1996, Archbishop of Chicago 1982-1996). In 1995, after years of joint…
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Imagine this: It’s the summer of 1947 and you’re a Communist or a fellow traveler or a Socialist or another kind of anti-Stalinist. Despite myriad differences with political rivals, you share the same basic position on the question of Palestine.…
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