A collection of 39 posts
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
When we create art, we are our best selves, better than the selves we are outside of art.
Should Jewish students accept the mantle of a marginalised group or reject DEI ideology altogether?
The unintended consequences of the Sixties’ antiwar protests have become the farce of their 21st-century iteration.
Notes on the pro-Hamas Left and its antecedents.
The antisemitism of campus leftism may be incidental. The barbarism is the point.
Valid concerns about anti-Muslim bigotry should not be used as an excuse to appease Islamist fanatics.
Government data about German antisemitism, widely cited in the English-language press, is wrong.
Progressive anti-Zionism and the poisonous legacy of Cold War hatred.
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.
A conversation with author and free-speech advocate David Bernstein.