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
· 12 min read
Antisemitism
A collection of 36 posts
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
· 10 min read
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
· 9 min read
The Choice
Should Jewish students accept the mantle of a marginalised group or reject DEI ideology altogether?
David B Rush
· 13 min read
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
· 15 min read
Springtime for Sinwar
Notes on the pro-Hamas Left and its antecedents.
Jeffrey Herf
· 21 min read
Academia Versus Civilization
The antisemitism of campus leftism may be incidental. The barbarism is the point.
Tal Fortgang, Jonathan Deluty
· 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
· 9 min read
Narratives, Damned Lies, and Statistics
Government data about German antisemitism, widely cited in the English-language press, is wrong.
Andrew Hammel
· 12 min read
The Language of Soviet Propaganda
Progressive anti-Zionism and the poisonous legacy of Cold War hatred.
Izabella Tabarovsky
· 14 min read
A Historian for Our Moment
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
· 14 min read
Understanding Woke Antisemitism: Quillette Cetera Episode 25
A conversation with author and free-speech advocate David Bernstein.
Zoe Booth
· 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
· 10 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
· 11 min read
They Told Me So
How my parents swallowed a frog to save me from antisemitism.
Thomas P. Balazs
· 16 min read