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 10 Jan 2024 · 14 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 · 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 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 · 16 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. Jeffrey Herf 2 Dec 2022 · 19 min read
How Social-Justice Extremists Spawned a Generation of ‘Progressive’ Antisemites The dialog-based seminars organized by CAPS were primarily aimed at addressing racial injustice suffered by individuals classified under broad categories, including black, indigenous, and people of color. David Bernstein, Nicole Levitt, and Daniel Newman 17 Sep 2021 · 9 min read
