Antisemitism

The Netherlands Faces Antisemitic Echoes of its Nazi Occupation

While she has never felt the need in the past to warn her children about Jodenhaat (hate against Jews), Femmetje now realizes that they are discovering it themselves. Her oldest daughter received threatening remarks after writing about the October 7, 2023, Hamas massacre and its consequences. [Dorian de Wind]

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Antisemitism, Dorian de Wind, International, Israel, Jewish History, The Moderate Voice

Jewish Biography: Otto Weininger: A Jewish Antisemite

Sex and Character asserts that all human beings are composed of a mixture of masculine and feminine matter. “Masculine” is active, productive, conscious, moral and logical, while ‘feminine’ is passive, unproductive, unconscious, amoral and illogical. In this book, Weininger emerges not only as a misogynist but also as an antisemite. [Alex Gordon]

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OpEd: Senator Jon Ossoff Has Just Put His Reelection in Jeopardy

Advocates for the Palestinians, especially in battleground state Michigan, predicted their faction would vote for neither Trump nor Harris to punish Democrats on grounds that President Biden did too little to restrain Israel’s military response to Oct. 7, 2023, when Hamas slaughtered 1,200 Israelis. Another faction that was expected to undermine Harris were racial minorities who accused Democrats of taking their votes for granted. [Bruce S. Ticker]

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OpEd: Ghahremani’s Execution Underscores Iran’s Persecution of Jews

The story of Arvin Nathaniel Ghahremani is a haunting reminder of the challenges faced by Jews in Iran. In 2022, at the age of 18, Ghahremani found himself in a violent altercation that would ultimately cost him his life, not because of justice, but because of systemic prejudice.  [Miriam Gershenson]

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Antisemitism, Israel, Middle East, Miriam Gershenson, Staff and Bylined Contributors

The Jewish Citizen: Bipartisan Effort to Increase Penalties for Conspiring with Foreign Powers to Kill or Harm Federal Officials

Democratic Congressmen Brad Schneider of Illinois and Jared Moskowitz of Florida are among the sponsors of a bipartisan bill increasing criminal penalties for engaging in murder-for-hire conspiracies and murder, attempted murder, kidnapping, or assault on federal officials, former federal officials, and their families.  [Donald H. Harrison]

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Israeli Scholar Explains Religious Conflicts Between Jews and Muslims

Kedar emphasized that Islam views Judaism as having been nullified twice—first by Christianity and then by Islam itself. This ideological framework, Kedar argued, underpins much of the hostility toward Israel and the Jewish people in the Middle East today. According to this belief, the existence of Jews with their own land, military, and rights is an incomprehensible anomaly to the Islamic world. [Miriam Gershenson]

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Antisemitism, Israel, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Middle East, Miriam Gershenson, San Diego County, Staff and Bylined Contributors

OpEd: Standing Together Through It All

Then there are the times when you are trying to get into a parking garage and the pro-Palestinians surrounding your vehicle are bashing their fists on your car doors, banging on your car window, chopping huge protest signs on your hood, and then laying it on your windshield so you cannot see to drive forward. [Barrett Holman Leak]

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Antisemitism, Barrett Holman Leak, Israel, Lifestyles, Middle East, Opinion, San Diego County, Staff and Bylined Contributors, USA

The Jewish Citizen: 14 Jewish Congressmembers Want House Ethics Committee to Release Gaetz Report

Nearly 100 Democratic members of the House of Representatives have urged the House Ethics Committee, which meets on Wednesday, to publicly release its report on former Rep. Matt Gaetz, whom President-elect Trump has nominated for the job of U.S. Attorney General. Prior to Gaetz’s resignation from Congress last week, the committee had been investigating Gaetz for sex and drug offenses, among other allegations. [Donald H. Harrison]

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Jewish Biography: Bernard Lazare, An Early Defender of Alfred Dreyfus

At the beginning of his literary career he spoke in defense of French Jews against the attacks of antisemites. Socialist in his views, Lazare, fascinated by Jewish history, interpreted the social views of the prophets as an expression of the aspirations of working people (Social Ideals of the Jewish People, 1893). [Alex Gordon]

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The Jewish Citizen: Several National Jewish Groups Oppose Matt Gaetz as Attorney General

Leaders of the Anti-Defamation League, the American Jewish Committee, and the Jewish Council for Public Affairs all came out against Gaetz becoming the leader of the Justice Department which among its other duties prosecutes hate crimes. [Donald H. Harrison]

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Antisemitism, Donald H. Harrison, Staff and Bylined Contributors, USA

The Jewish Citizen: Landsman, Maybe Schrier, Seek Leadership Among Battleground House Democrats

Two Jewish members of Congress may be in a projected three-way race on Nov. 19 to serve as a leader among Democrats for House members in swing districts. The position is being vacated by Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-Virginia), who plans to run in 2025 in Virginia’s gubernatorial race. [Donald H. Harrison]

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Jewish Biography: Benjamin Disraeli, British Prime Minister

Disraeli was born into a middle-class London family in 1804, when the capital’s Jewish population numbered just over 20,000. He was the eldest son of a literary man who left the Jewish community a year before his son’s bar mitzvah, and was baptized according to his father’s will. [Alex Gordon]

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