Progressives must denounce their own anti-Semites
We recently saw a rally with torches lit as neo-Nazis and the KKK chanted and marched through Charlottesville, Virginia. Good people everywhere were horrified and recoiled in horror upon hearing the...
View ArticleTrump’s Jerusalem Statement: The Disingenuous Reason Behind It
I am a Zionist. I believe in the right to self-determination for Jews in our ancestral homeland and I recognize, as does Israel, that Jerusalem is the unified and eternal capital of the Jewish people....
View ArticleThe Apathy of Hollywood’s Jews
I’d originally planned to write about the historical apathy among Hollywood’s Jewish community toward Jewish suffering. I’d planned to write about how the majority of the Jewish community of Los...
View ArticleBDS Is Anti-Semitic: A Response to the 2005 “Palestinian Civil Society Call...
The BDS movement was started in 2005 by Omar Barghouti, ironically, while he was a student attending Tel Aviv University. Clearly the apartheid that is claimed by Barghouti did not exist for him since...
View ArticlePeaceful or Pestilent? An In-Depth Analysis of Hamas Protests in Gaza
We have seen many expressing outrage about the perception that Israel has been using live ammunition against peaceful protesters in Gaza. Chris Hayes, of MSNBC, spoke out on his April 4, 2018 broadcast...
View ArticleWearing Jewface: The Far-Left’s New Tactic
I contributed much of the research for the Tablet article that exposed Julia Salazar as an imposter, and by imposter I mean pretending to be Jewish, pretending to be an immigrant, and pretending to...
View ArticleWearing Jewface: The Aftermath and Beyond
My recent blog post at Times of Israel, Wearing Jewface: The Far-Left’s New Tactic, has generated a lot of discussion on Facebook, Twitter, even a Reddit thread. It’s a much needed discussion. I’ve...
View ArticleDisparity of Hate: When Antisemitism and Racism Aren’t Equal
The country, especially the Democratic party, was blindsided last week when Virginia Governor Ralph Northam’s medical school yearbook surfaced featuring a photo of a person in blackface next to a...
View ArticleAre Jewish Studies Depts Safe from Antisemitism?
You may think your child’s college courses that are part of a Jewish Studies program are protected from the antisemitism that permeates college and university campuses throughout America. I have some...
View ArticleThe Democrats are failing America
Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election. Barely. The panel of Democratic candidates was unfortunate. No one stood out as a superstar and many were seen as too far left. Out of the slate of...
View ArticleUNRWA: A failure for Palestinians – Malik’s story
Malik* was born in Lebanon. Malik’s parents were also born in Lebanon. But Malik, his parents, and so many others who have a generational presence in Lebanon, are not citizens of Lebanon. Malik, who...
View ArticleOpen Letter to Robert Kraft and Ron Lauder
Good evening, morning, or afternoon, gentlemen. I write to you to express how overwhelmed the majority of the Jewish American community is right now. I write to you because you are champions of the...
View ArticleA Handy List of Leftwing Antisemitism
Rightwing antisemitism is easy to spot. It’s in your face, covered in swastikas, wearing white hoods or Hawaiian shirts, holding tiki torches, and there’s no question that it exists. However, leftwing...
View ArticleThe Democratic Party’s Day of Reckoning
October 7, 2023. The worst massacre of Jewish civilians since the Holocaust. Innocent men, women, children, babies, fetuses, and the elderly were hunted, tortured, raped, butchered and defiled in a...
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