Antisemitism - Quillette

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

Philip Roth, seated, hands behind head. He's in a suit. Dark hair and thick eyebrows.

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.

Pamela Paresky

12 Jul 2024 · 10 min read

Rogers Waters, dressed in black, looking manic, against a background of a TV studio wall.

Art over Man: The Roger Waters Test Case

When we create art, we are our best selves, better than the selves we are outside of art.

Thomas P. Balazs

4 Jul 2024 · 9 min read

Students holding Israel flags in front of a banner stating "Safe Space for Jewish Students."

The Choice

Should Jewish students accept the mantle of a marginalised group or reject DEI ideology altogether?

David B Rush

18 Jun 2024 · 13 min read

A female demonstrator offers a flower to military police on guard at the Pentagon during an anti-Vietnam demonstration

Waltzing Down the Road to Hell

The unintended consequences of the Sixties’ antiwar protests have become the farce of their 21st-century iteration.

Adam Garfinkle

27 May 2024 · 15 min read

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 · 21 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 · 9 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 · 12 min read

The Language of Soviet Propaganda

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

Izabella Tabarovsky

11 Jan 2024 · 15 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.