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Tag Archives: racism
‘Safe European home’?
Toulouse killings demonstrate that Identity politics is a blind alley, for radical Islamists, and the far right in Europe
Posted in Israel/Palestine, Media, War on Terror
Tagged Antisemitism, France, Islamists, racism
46 Comments
Neocon questions: Where is the Palestinian Gandhi? And where is the great Churchill of our times?
Joseph Lelyveld on a new India famine book in the New York Review of Books focuses on Churchill’s racism, “Winston’s refusal to accept things as they are and not as they were in 1895,” as Leopold Amery, sec’y of state … Continue reading
My shiksa friend sees the crisis
Haaretz: Dozens of top Israeli rabbis sign ruling to forbid rental of homes to Arabs An academic friend, who will only identity as “your shiksa friend”: If Jewish and American rabbis don’t come out strongly against this what are us … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
Tagged academic boycott, covenants, goyim, rabbis, racism, Religion, renting to Palestinians
131 Comments
Some things just didn’t make sense
I grew up in the womb of the Jewish Community of Washington, D.C, studied at our Hebrew Academy (a school that my grandfather helped found), and worshiped at the Beth Shalom Orthodox Jewish synagogue. After marrying, I travelled to visit … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
Tagged American Council for Judaism, Jewish morality, non-Zionism, racism, Zionism
56 Comments
I am Zionism’s mandatory object. So don’t I get to define it?
There’s an excellent discussion of the ‘Zionism is racism’ question over at Jeremiah Haber’s site, The Magnes Zionist. Haber makes some very good points which are especially compelling since he – a multiculturalist who self-identifies as a Zionist – is … Continue reading
Zionism, discrimination, and racist intent
Jerry Slater constructs an artful but unconvincing defense against the charge that the Jewish State is inherently racist. He reasons that the preferences and privileges accorded to Jews over non-Jews in Israel/Palestine is founded upon genuine Jewish insecurity rather than … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
Tagged discrimination, Holocaust, insecurity, intention, Jerome Slater, racism, superiority, Zionism
91 Comments
Slater says Jewish state is warranted by likelihood of recurrence of anti-Semitism
Jerome Slater has a provocative post saying that Israel’s demand that the Palestinians recognize it as a Jewish state is not a deal-breaker. Weiss has pulled out a portion of his analysis, in which he seeks to answer the charge … Continue reading
Lincoln overcame a belief in ethnic cleansing to imagine an interracial future (Notes on my racism, part 4)
The latest New York Review of Books has a great piece by James McPherson about Eric Foner’s new biography of Abraham Lincoln that emphasizes the transformation of Lincoln’s view of blacks, especially during the Civil War. The piece is behind … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Afghanistan occupation, Alexis Agathocleous, anti-Arab prejudice, Bureau of Prisons, Center For Constitutional Rights, Civil War, Eric Foner, Iraq war, Islamic prisoners, Islamophobia, James McPherson, New York Review of Books, prejudice, racism
25 Comments
‘New Yorker’ connects Elvis Costello’s use of the word ‘nigger’ 30 years ago to his recent participation in boycott of Israel
From Abe Foxman’s lips to the New Yorker’s ear. Nick Paumgarten profiles Elvis Costello in the new New Yorker magazine, and links the entertainer’s use of the n-word in an episode 30 years ago to his participation this year in … Continue reading
Posted in BDS, Israel/Palestine
Tagged Abe Foxman, Ali Gharib, boycott Israel, Elvis Costello, n-word, racism, Ray Charles, The New Yorker
8 Comments
Sotomayor overcame poverty, and then elitist disdain, with stubbornness and cheer
Yesterday I did a post that praised Sonia Sotomayor and sharply criticized Laurence Tribe’s elitism. The issue here is the decadence of the meritocracy; and I realized I had never published this post I wrote in September, after seeing Sotomayor’s … Continue reading
The new Jewish upside-down world: intellectual who calls for equal rights is likened to KKK
Last month we picked up the news that Jewish groups in New Mexico are trying to stop Ali Abunimah’s talk at the University of N.M. next week. Well Abunimah’s blog contains the disgusting news that a local Jewish leader has … Continue reading
Posted in Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine
Tagged Ali Abunimah, apartheid, Israel, Jewish Federations, KKK, Ku Klux Klan, NAACP, racism, Sam Sokolove, University of New Mexico
16 Comments
Jewish identi-kit(h)
A question often raised on this blog is “What is Jewish identity?” Religious commitment, especially of the Orthodox variety, is easy to understand, but what is a Jewish atheist? Some commenters here have argued that there is really little more … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
Tagged Holocaust, Jewish identity, Kaplan, Levinas, Phil Weiss, racism, Sand, Shmuel Sermoneta-Gertel, supremacy, tribe, victimhood, Zionism
41 Comments
Contrary to reports, Peretz will address Harvard social studies gathering
It has been widely reported that Marty Peretz was dropped as a speaker from this weekend’s 50th Anniversary of Social Studies gathering at Harvard University. This appears to be incorrect. The Harvard Crimson reports on the official statement of the the … Continue reading
