Antisemitism

How the web spreads anti-semitism

Editor’s note: Daniel Jonah Goldhagen’s book “The Devil That Never Dies: The Rise and Threat of Global Antisemitism,” was just published by Little, Brown. A former Harvard professor, he is also the author of the “Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust.”…

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Critiquing Anti-Semitism With Restraint

In the preface to his important new book, The Devil That Never Dies: The Rise and Threat of Global Anti-Semitism, former Harvard professor Daniel Jonah Goldhagen says he considered many options before conceptualizing anti-Semitism as the devil. He realized some people might think…

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Antisemitism doesn’t always come doing a Hitler salute

When the Ukip politician Godfrey Bloom referred to “Bongo Bongo land”, there were not many who denied the remark was racist. When the same man told women who failed to clean behind the fridge that they were “sluts”, most could see the…

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Fighting for Israel on College Campuses

It’s that time again. In my office, September is one of the busiest months of the year. My students, located all around North America, are returning to college. Almost as soon as they arrive on campus, the stories start pouring…

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Cal State University-Northridge Says Anti-Israel Prof Klein Does Not Have Permission to Use School Servers to Advance Boycott

After an intense letter-writing campaign and in-person pleas by AMCHA Initiative, a national organization fighting anti-Semitism on college campuses, California State University’s interim general counsel, Andrew Jones, has affirmed that CSU-Northridge mathematics professor David Klein has not been granted express permission…

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