Antisemitism - Quillette

Demonstrators gather at the gates of Columbia University in Morningside Heights, Manhattan, NY, on Saturday, 20 April 2024.

Springtime for Sinwar

Notes on the pro-Hamas Left and its antecedents.

Jeffrey Herf

2 May 2024 · 20 min read

Academia Versus Civilization

The antisemitism of campus leftism may be incidental. The barbarism is the point.

Tal Fortgang / Jonathan Deluty

25 Mar 2024 · 16 min read

A Confected Crisis

Valid concerns about anti-Muslim bigotry should not be used as an excuse to appease Islamist fanatics.

Oscar Clarke

1 Mar 2024 · 8 min read

Narratives, Damned Lies, and Statistics

Government data about German antisemitism, widely cited in the English-language press, is wrong.

Andrew Hammel

13 Feb 2024 · 11 min read

The Language of Soviet Propaganda

Progressive anti-Zionism and the poisonous legacy of Cold War hatred.

Izabella Tabarovsky

11 Jan 2024 · 14 min read

Jeffrey Herf has made a scholarly commitment to document the words of Islamic Jew-hatred from their origins in Egypt and wartime Berlin. That has made him a lonely voice in the American professoriate.

Sol Stern

10 Jan 2024 · 13 min read

Understanding Woke Antisemitism: Quillette Cetera Episode 25

A conversation with author and free-speech advocate David Bernstein.

Zoe Booth

14 Dec 2023 · 1 min read

Chasing the Ice Moon

A new book describes the crackpot anthropological theories that Nazis used to justify their belief in Aryan racial superiority.

Steven Tucker

27 Nov 2023 · 9 min read

Holocaust Historians, the Genocide Charge, and Gaza

The accusation is wrong on the facts and objectively serves to support the intent of Hamas to murder Jews with impunity.

Norman J.W. Goda / Jeffrey Herf

23 Nov 2023 · 11 min read

They Told Me So

How my parents swallowed a frog to save me from antisemitism.

Thomas P. Balazs

22 Nov 2023 · 15 min read

Muslim Antisemitism and the Western Left

The pro-Hamas demonstrations are driven by the identification of Israel with “colonialism” and the idea that the Palestinians are anti-colonialists. This approach is based on ignorance.

Benny Morris

7 Nov 2023 · 9 min read

Antisemitism: The Sinister Pattern

The enemies of the Jews are the enemies of Enlightenment.

Brett Hall

1 Nov 2023 · 12 min read

It’s Not the Occupation

It is rarely the case that all of the blame for a conflict belongs on one side. But that does not mean blame should be equally divided.

David Benatar

21 Oct 2023 · 7 min read

Woke Antisemitism: A Reckoning

In their rationalizations of violence against Jews and Israelis, they’ve outed themselves as the extremists they are.

David Bernstein

16 Oct 2023 · 10 min read

Islamist Terror; Journalistic Error

In a valuable new book, historian Richard Landes argues that Western reporting on the Second Palestinian Intifada helped to seed a misunderstanding of terrorism.