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Commentary Liberal arts education, as I experienced it at Antioch College in the late 1950s and early 1960s, was aimed at opening students’ minds to the intellectual life of Western culture. Students were asked to consider such questions as “What counts…
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The Feinstein Center for American Jewish History at Temple University in Philadelphia is co-sponsoring a virtual event on April 20 that promotes false narratives about Israel. The Jewish center founded by the late Murray Friedman—a historian and longtime leader of…
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Everything about this case is heartbreaking. The fate of a retired kindergarten teacher, beaten and then thrown from a window. The evasiveness about whether a murder committed to cries of “I’ve killed the devil!” was or was not an anti-Semitic…
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On Tuesday, the Stockton University Holocaust and Genocide Studies program, Temple University’s Feinstein Center for American Jewish History, and Congregation Rodeph Shalom in Philadelphia hosted a webinar on the weaponization of antisemitism. The event quickly transformed into a forum for…
read moreImagine you’ve just been accepted to college. You open your welcome packet. It contains the bestseller all first-year students are expected to read: Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragility. You flip to a random page and read, “Only whites can be racist.”…
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A foundational principle of the fight against hate in America is the belief that intolerance in general, and anti-Semitism in particular, are functions of ignorance that can be solved with education. We see evidence of this whenever concerns about intolerance…
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Download and print a PDF version here. In this comprehensive critique Cary Nelson argues that the recent ‘Jerusalem Declaration’ on Antisemitism should be rejected because it accommodates, rather than challenges, what has been called ‘the new antisemitism’. After reviewing the debate…
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The Unidas Podemos Party. Credit: Wikimedia Commons Ahead of the forthcoming regional Madrid elections on May 4, Action and Communication on the Middle East (ACOM), a leading organization in the fight against anti-Semitism in Spain, has launched a campaign called…
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Sheikh Zayed Mosque seen from the courtyard with its floral design. (photo credit: WIKIEMIRATI) The Global Imams Council (GIC) adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) Working Definition of Antisemitism on Thursday, becoming the first Imams Council in the world…
read moreRichard Landes argues that the claim made by the signatories of the Jerusalem Declaration that – in the face of the eliminationist antisemitism of the Global Jihad, no less – it is acceptable to call for Israel to be abolished…
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