Anti-Semitism and the Intellectuals
George Eliot was at the peak of her renown in 1874 when John Blackwood, her publisher, learned that she was at work on “Daniel Deronda, ” a new novel. As a literary man, he was in thrall to her…
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London Jewish group releases 15,000 page report on Labour Party antisemitism
Illustrative: Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn speaks after Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May lost a vote on her Brexit deal in the House of Commons, London, Tuesday January 15, 2019. (House of Commons/PA via AP) A Jewish advocacy group in London…
read moreEven during the coronavirus pandemic, Jews are ever the scapegoat
Last week marked 75 years since World War II concluded in Europe with the unconditional surrender of the Germans to the Allies. Hitler came to power on the back of a severely declining economy, for which the Jews became the…
read more50,000 scholar NGO slams ‘antisemitic’ BDS prof., supports German rep.
BERLIN – The organization Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) on Tuesday published a letter in support of Germany’s commissioner for combating antisemitism, who classified a South African-based pro-BDS academic’s language as antisemitic. The 50,000 scholars affiliated with SPME…
read moreUS expert: Berlin antisemitism center ignores Israel-related antisemitism
BERLIN–The prominent American historian, Dr. Jeffrey Herf, sharply criticized the Berlin Center for Antisemitism Research (ZfA) for failing to address radical left-wing, communist and Islamic Jew-hatred. Herf, one of the world’s leading experts on antisemitism, wrote on Thursday in the…
read moreCanadian student body rejects IHRA definition of antisemitism
The Canadian Federation of Students (CFS) is rejecting the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism, which guides politicians and leaders around the globe on how to identify and combat anti-Jewish hatred. On Wednesday, the CFS issued a press…
read moreJewish Student Says She Left City University of New York Law School After Being Targeted by Antisemitic Harassment for Supporting Israel
Rafaella Gunz, a former CUNY law student who was forced out by antisemitic harassment. Photo: Kristen Blush. A Jewish former law student at City University of New York told The Algemeiner this week about what she described as antisemitic and anti-Zionist harassment…
read moreHas the Coronavirus Infected Israelophobes?
The COVID-19 virus has already claimed thousands of lives across the globe. Unsurprisingly, it has also fanned anti-Semitism. Today, as the long and bloody history of Jew-hatred has shown, anti-Semites, Israelophobes, and BDS crusaders have wasted little time exploiting the…
read moreShe Was Excited for a New School. Then the Anti-Semitic ‘Jokes’ Started
The letters stretch over 30 feet, written into the sand on a beach in New Jersey. The teenager in the photo rests casually on his side above the words, smiling, his head propped up in his hand. “I h8 Jews,”…
read moreHateful Anti-Zionism at Duke University Press
Perkins Library at Duke University in Durham, NC. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. Duke University Press has a long history of promoting antisemitic views masquerading as academic scholarship. Their authors have compared Israelis to Nazis, and have updated antisemitic blood libels by alleging that Israel specifically targets Palestinian…
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