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Since anti-Zionism, which has taken on the characteristics of anti-Semitism, has become increasingly acceptable as an expression of “genuine” criticism of Israel within academic circles, even Jewish professors, Edward Alexander’s latest book, The State of the Jews: A Critical Appraisal,…
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There are two layers of media bias when it comes to Israel. The first emanates from the West that focuses on Israel’s “so called” genocidal policies which, because they are not blatantly anti-Semitic are perceived as “legitimate criticism.” The second…
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Historian Robert Wistrich holds the Neuberger Chair for Modern European and Jewish History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Since 2002, he has served as Director of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of anti-Semitism at this university.…
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The center of this novel is The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a catastrophically influential forged account of the minutes of a meeting (which never took place) in Prague’s ancient cemetery of “learned Elders of Zion” organizing Jewish bankers…
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Prof. Bernard Lewis has just published a memoir which is as much a valedictory statement of his views as a reminiscence about a remarkable life; I review it today at the Jewish webzine The Tablet. Lewis has of course been denounced from…
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Although the essential facts of the Eichmann trial are known, the significance of this event is far greater and much more complex than would seem on first impression. In the simplest sense, the Eichmann trial was a trial of a…
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Gershom Scholem, the Leviathan of Jewish mysticism and influential professor at Hebrew University from 1933-65, once mischievously remarked that a country’s talent goes where it is needed, and in Israel it was needed far more urgently in the military than…
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By locating a genocidal impulse at work in today’s universities, the explosive title of this book (somewhat weakened by that unfortunate word “jihad”) inevitably calls to mind an earlier book called Hitler’s Professors: The Part of Scholarship in…
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Eunice G. Pollack, a professor of history and Jewish Studies at the University of North Texas and editor of the interdisciplinary series Antisemitism in America, has collected twenty one articles, almost all focusing on the issue of antisemitism in the…
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It is always useful to have God on your side whenever you become engaged in a meaningful enterprise, especially when cardinal decisions related to peace and war are involved. In a religiously devoted society like the Muslim one, God’s support…
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