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By now, December’s congressional hearing about anti-Semitism at universities, during which the presidents of Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, and MIT all claimed that calls for the genocide of Jews would violate their university’s policies only “depending on the context,” is already a well-worn meme. Surely there is nothing left to say about this higher-education train wreck, after the fallout brought
Penslar sagte, er habe die Podiumsdiskussion übersprungen, weil er wusste, dass er gebeten werden würde, sich zu den „Vorgängen in Harvard“ zu äußern.
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While real antisemitism is rearing its head, the assurance that “anti-Zionism is not inherently antisemitic” can feel like gaslighting.
They hit me in the face, those posters: the ones headed with the big red upper-case legend kidnapped above a portrait photo accompanied by the person’s name and some basic information, and then at
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Many students who think they’re protesting against Israeli policy are actually engaging in anti-Semitism, spewing hatred in a way that will change them as people and alter their lives.
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Moral Rot
Many of America’s
Jennifer Aniston clarified her social media activity after being accused of “liking” Jamie Foxx’s seemingly antisemitic message.
“This really makes me sick. I did not ‘like’ this post on purpose or by accident,” Aniston, 54, wrote via her Instagram Story on Saturday, August 5. “And more importantly, I want to be clear to my friends and anyone hurt by this showing up in their feeds — I do NOT support antisemitism. And
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Last week I asked readers, “What is the best response to anti-Semitism in America?”
Yosef responded with acid observations about the type of anti-Semitism that prompts the most media coverage:
I find it ironic that those who are the most
“There are lines in the play,” says Tom Stoppard, thinking back to a few years ago, when he was working on “Leopoldstadt,” “that land in a very different way now.” In the time since Stoppard wrote his decades-spanning tragedy about a Viennese Jewish family ultimately doomed by the holocaust — indeed, even since “Leopoldstadt” opened on Broadway in October — antisemitism has again been worming its way out of the margins and into public view. Which means, as Stoppard
Evan Rachel Wood has shared more details of the abuse she allegedly suffered at the hands of ex-boyfriend Marilyn Manson, revealing how he ‘essentially raped’ her during a music video shoot, urged her to carve his initial into her pelvis, and decorated their home with Nazi propaganda knowing that she is Jewish.
Wood, 34, began her tumultuous relationship with 53-year-old Manson, real name Brian Warner, when she was just 18 — and she has since accused her of grooming her
