Anti-Racist blog has this report on what passes for “Palestine Awareness” at the University of Michigan. What was that cliche about a picture and a thousand words?
Archive for February, 2008
Via Palestinian Media Watch, here’s the latest addition to the Hamas stable of children’s characters: Assud the rabbit who pledges “to finish off the Jews and eat them.”
Two stories from Italy over the last few days eerily demonstrate how the evangelical anti-Zionism of the far left can overlap with the unabashed antisemitism of the far right.
Continue reading ‘Antisemitism from the Left? Or from the Right?’
In the annals of the struggle against apartheid in South Africa, when a small white minority brutally oppressed the mainly black majority and denied them the right to vote, Soweto occupies a special place. The sprawling, poverty-stricken black township on the south-western edge of Johannesburg was the site of a mass uprising in 1976 and numerous other protests.
Continue reading ‘Folly in Soweto: Israel “Apartheid Week” Comes to Town’
The Arun Gandhi episode has provided John Mearsheimer - co-author, alongside Stephen Walt, of The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy - with another opportunity to regurgitate his favorite quote.
Continue reading ‘Mearsheimer, Gandhi and the Antisemitism Debate’
In a New York Times column, Ian Kershaw, one of the most outstanding scholars of the Nazi period, asks, “Could something like it happen again?”
Joe Mendels pointed me to this report from the Associated Press concerning what Jewish organizations in Russia are calling a “…surge in antisemitic manifestations”.
