Antisemitism - Quillette

Ta-Nehisi Coates is a middle-aged black man in a suit with the Dome of the Rock in the background.

Oversimplify and Vilify

‘The Message’ is a lopsided, unserious, and frequently embarrassing essay, the real target of which is the very existence of Israel.

Mark Horowitz

11 Dec 2024 · 12 min read

Jewish men in black hats and jackets watch a fire engine pull up to a synagogue.

Hatred and Indifference in Modern Australia

Examining Australia’s leadership vacuum in the wake of the Melbourne synagogue firebombing.

Claire Lehmann

8 Dec 2024 · 5 min read

Jewish star of David painted on the German national flag.

Anti-Zionism’s German Roots

While Islam traditionally treated Jews with contempt, antisemitic conspiracy theories imported from Germany escalated this animosity by vilifying Jews as agents of diabolical evil.

Gerfried Ambrosch

18 Nov 2024 · 11 min read

Podcast #251: Tracing the Rise of Radicalised Anti-Zionism on American Campuses

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with author Paul Berman about the lingering influence of ‘Black Power’ advocate Stokely Carmichael, who once infamously claimed that ‘the only good Zionist is a dead Zionist.’

Jonathan Kay

16 Sep 2024 · 29 min read

Composite image of Stokely Carmichael speaking; background is a Gaza solidarity encampment at a university

A Stupid Cartoon and the University Ideology

Frantz Fanon, Stokely Carmichael, and the roots of the uproar over Zionism.

Paul Berman

9 Sep 2024 · 41 min read

Podcast #250: Israel: Germany’s Reason of State

Iona Italia talks to Gerfried Ambrosch about pro-Israel feeling on the German Left, antisemitism among Muslim immigrants and why Israel’s safety is “Germany’s reason of state.”

Quillette

4 Sep 2024 · 27 min read

Anti-Zionism and Antisemitism

If you insist that the Jewish state is the only one that should not be allowed to defend itself against terrorist attacks, you are probably an antisemite.

David Benatar

30 Jul 2024 · 9 min read

The back of a middle-aged white man wearing a black yarmulke with a star of David embroidered on it. Backdrop of German flag.

The German Left’s Jewish Dilemma

Many German leftists, mindful of the country’s past, still support Israel. But they risk being outnumbered by antisemitic Muslim immigrants and by decolonialist radicals.

Gerfried Ambrosch

25 Jul 2024 · 11 min read

Rereading Philip Roth Today

Roth’s early works portray Jewish characters who are fearful of antisemitism in America as paranoid. He later changed his mind—and so have I.

Peter C. Herman

23 Jul 2024 · 12 min read

Boaz wears round glasses, a suit and tie, and a yellow lapel ribbon. An Israeli flag hangs in the background

A Conversation with Boaz Bismuth

The Knesset member speaks about his moving address to the European Parliament in which he highlighted the double standards that the international community places on Jews and Israelis.