With his Dangerous Antisemitism and Racist Stereotypes, Ye has made himself a...
Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment) – Kanye West, who now goes by just “Ye,” has transformed himself from a global rap and fashion icon, into a useful idiot for Donald Trump and the MAGA...
View ArticleFrom Kanye to Trump: Antisemitism isn’t just Jew-hatred– it’s anti-Jewish racism
By Dov Waxman, University of California, Los Angeles | – (The Conversation) – Antisemitism has been in the news a lot lately. Hip-hop megastar Ye – formerly known as Kanye West – tweeted Oct. 8, 2022...
View ArticleCombating Antisemitism today: Holocaust Education in the era of Twitter and...
By Alan Marcus, University of Connecticut | – (The Conversation) – In the era of social media, antisemitism and Holocaust denial are no longer hidden in the margins, spewed by fringe hate groups. From...
View ArticleTeaching the Holocaust through Literature: four books to help Young People...
By Christine Berberich, University of Portsmouth | – A survey commissioned in 2019 revealed the shocking result that over half of Britons did not know that at least six millions Jews had been murdered...
View ArticleWhen it Comes to Defining Antisemitism, it’s Official: the IHRA, which...
Joe Sterling ( Georgia Recorder ) – The battle over a controversial definition of antisemitism that forbids criticism of Israel has taken a new turn in Georgia and the rest of the country, thanks...
View ArticleSinead O’Connor’s Music and Life were infused with Spiritual Seeking, From...
By Brenna Moore, Fordham University | – When news broke July 26, 2023, that the gifted Irish singer Sinead O’Connor had died, stories of her most famous performance circulated amid the grief and shock....
View ArticleHow individual, ordinary Jews fought Nazi Persecution – A New View of History
By Wolf Grune, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences | – In Nazi Germany, Hertha Reis, a 36-year-old Jewish woman, performed forced labor for a private company in Berlin during World War...
View ArticleHow Jewish Nonviolence can help guide the Path forward on Israel-Palestine
As a rabbi committed to the practice of Jewish nonviolence, I know a long road of reparative action stretches before us. But it’s the only way. Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb ( Waging Nonviolence ) – In an...
View ArticleWhy so Many Jews Denounce Israel’s War on Gaza
By Yakov M. Rabkin ( Pressenza ) – A profound division exists between Zionist advocates of Israel on the one hand, and both secular and religious Jews, on the other, who reject Zionism and thus the...
View ArticleConfessions of an Ex-Zionist: My Judaism will not stand for the Mass...
Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – I grieve for the people of Israel and Palestine, both of whom are being abused and terrorized by their own governments and leadership. Hamas is not...
View ArticleDoes Compromise show Weakness or Strength? – A Surprising finding in the Talmud
Growing up in Israel, the prevailing mentality surrounding me everywhere I went was that compromise shows weakness. The message was clear: compromise is a “Diaspora thing,” but for us Israelis – we...
View ArticleNever Forget: Jews and Muslims have Often imagined themselves in History as...
Excerpted from Tingis. The forgotten history of Jews and Muslims needs to be recovered in order to challenge a multitude of dangerous false assumptions that exacerbate the conflict between Israelis and...
View ArticleUS Scholars of Mideast dispute House Resolution 894’s Equation of...
Committee on Academic Freedom, North America, Middle East Studies Association | – Representative Mike Johnson Speaker of the House of Representatives Representative Hakim Jeffries Minority Leader,...
View ArticleThe Battle for the Soul of Judaism: Tribalism, Amalek and the Axial Age...
Kyoto (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Viewers of Tucker Carlson’s recent interview with Vladimir Putin may have been surprised by Putin’s lengthy reference to the historical founding of...
View ArticleQZionism hits Peak Conspiracy Theory with Smears of Oscar-Winning Jonathan...
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The brave and highly ethical Oscar-award-winning director, Jonathan Glazer, has been targeted by the crazies on the Zionist (Israeli-nationalist) right wing, as were all...
View ArticlePurim at the Time of Genocide
Montréal (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The Jewish holiday of Purim, related in the Book of Esther, celebrates deliverance from a genocide. How to celebrate it when death and starvation kill...
View ArticleEurope’s Jewish Scholars of Islam
Middlebury, Vt. (Special to Informed Comment) – At the end of the nineteenth century, the Turkish government asked its Minister of Education to prepare a report on European universities and the...
View ArticleIsrael on the Brink as Ultra-Orthodox Exemption from Military Service is Set...
Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Featured) – On March 29, the Israeli Supreme Court ordered the government to stop subsidizing the academies and yeshivas (seminaries), whose students have...
View ArticleZionism’s Expired Shelf-Life: Why Naomi Klein is right that it has become...
Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Previously I’ve argued that Zionism has run its course as a political movement, and accomplished its goal: The creation of a viable Jewish...
View ArticleAntisemitism and Antizionism: A Dangerous Conflation
Montréal (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Antisemitism is making the headlines. The Israeli Prime Minister describes as antisemitic the accusation that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza,...
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