Antisemitism

The Problem Starts at the Top

As an image for countering anti-Semitism, I once used to keep tacked over my desk the Polish proverb, “It’s lousy to swim upstream in a filthy river.” Happily, upstream swimmers who now overtake me seem better shielded from the pollution.…

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Robert Wistrich (1945-2015): In memoriam

The news of the death of Robert Wistrich on May 19 leaves his colleagues and friends in Israel and around the world stunned and deeply saddened. On the basis of an astonishing record of scholarly productivity since the 1970s, he…

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Anti-Semitism and Jewish destiny

On Sunday, Robert S. Wistrich – the director of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Anti-Semitism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem – emailed the following column to ‘Jerusalem Post’ Editor-in-Chief Steve Linde, asking that it be…

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20 organizations say UC Riverside offering anti-Semitic class

There has been no shortage of anti-Semitic incidents on college campuses during the past academic year, especially within the 10-school University of California (UC) system. As Jewish students deal with Holocaust imagery and student governments taking issue with their Judaism,…

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A British Conference on Israel’s Right to Exist: Really?

Iran has violated the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty time after time, often undetected; it also continues to violate Article 2, clause 4, of the United Nations Charter: “All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of…

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The Battle of Southampton

It all must have seemed so innocent and care-free when Oren Ben-Dor, professor at Southampton University, decided to organise a three-day conference at his place of work. An Israeli law professor, calling for papers and speakers on the subject of…

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