Bruce Ticker is a freelance writer based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Who says that Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has something against a homeland for a displaced people? Not for the Kurds, of course, but he must want a homeland for…you’ll never guess…the Palestinians. [Bruce S. Ticker]
Turkey’s Erdogan kills Syrian Kurds and excoriates Israel’s treatment of Palestinians Read More »
Bruce Ticker, Middle EastTwo days before the Day of Atonement, The New York Times reported that Jeremy Corbyn had advanced a signficant step toward becoming Britain’s prime minister. Yom Kippur itself was consumed by fatal shootings outside a synagogue in Germany; a military earthquake in Syria that could easily extend to Israel; and two scary incidents in Elon, North Carolina, and White Plains, New York. This confluence of events cast a bleak shadow for 5780, the new Jewish year. It makes one wonder what else can happen.
Jewish Year 5780 starts with bad news Read More »
Bruce Ticker, International, Middle East, USA
I have a few email addresses from congressmen and senators in Washington. I sometimes get responses to what I send or have to say to them. Some of them have read the SDJW and have seen Alon Ben-Meir’s article entitled ‘Repercussions of Israel’s Fractured Democracy’ (nothing wrong with that article) and Bruce S. Tickers story ‘Impeachment unlikely to affect Democratic control of the House’???. So I won’t send Joel Cohen’s item entitled “Trump seeks Israel’s help in Election” because one or more dopey members of Congress might take it seriously and make an issue of it. (To read more, please click on the headline.)
Down Under they don’t trust U.S. media Read More »
Alon Ben-Meir, Bruce Ticker, International, Joel H. Cohen, John McCormick, Lawrence Baron, USAPundits are questioning if the impeachment inquiry conducted by the House of Representatives will cost Democrats their majority in the House. What they overlook is the prospect that some Republicans may lose their jobs – like Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick who represents Bucks County and a sliver of Montgomery County in southeastern Pennsylvania. (To read more, please click on the headline)
Impeachment unlikely to affect Democratic control of the House Read More »
Bruce Ticker, USA“Lofty” has long been a word that traditionally describes academia. Yet a more apt word, to be nice, is “bizarre” when an Asian leader fulminates about Jews at a respected university and a so-called academic program rewrites Middle East history.
Fighting academic anti-Semitism Read More »
AAA-Writers and photographers, Bruce Ticker, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAExcerpt: In Paterson and Trenton, both iconic cities in New Jersey, Michael Jackson and Kathy McBride are members of the city council today, and towards the other end of the country, Patrick Little is running for council in Garden City, Idaho, a suburb of Boise. Little is a white nationalist and a Republican. and Jackson and McBride are African-American Democrats.
Jackson played the race card in Paterson after he was admonished for proclaiming “Jew us down” during a council meeting on September 10 while debating the reconstruction of a local stadium, according to The Paterson Press. “That was meant with no malice,” Jackson said, noting that he learned the phrase during his “upbringing.”
The councilman subsequently questioned if the city administration was doing enough to quell violence involving young African men. In an argument with Mayor Andre Sayegh, he said the phrase was used by people to describe haggling. “I never use it,” the mayor said. (Please click headline to read full story)
Fighting anti-Semitism at local levels of government Read More »
Bruce Ticker, USABy Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania — We will learn eventually if New York’s $1.7 million investment to contend with bias-related incidents will work, but the outbreak in attacks against Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn exposes ongoing drawbacks in the system. Deborah Lauter, who heads the newly created Office for the Prevention of Hate Crimes, hopes
New York City adds an office to fight bias crimes Read More »
Bruce Ticker, USABritain’s Jews have had the choice to vote for Parliament candidates led by Johnson or Corbyn – a quandary akin to expecting American Jews to choose between President Trump and Rashida Tlaib or Ilhan Omar, two freshman Democrats who are widely branded as anti-Semites.
For Jews, Corbyn v. Johnson is like Omar v. Trump Read More »
Bruce Ticker, InternationalBy Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania — President Trump and PM Boris Johnson in particular are nightmares, and Mayor Bill de Blasio, in his quest to advance from the nation’s second toughest to the toughest job, is abandoning his neighboring nine million New Yorkers. The modern threesome are conducting themselves in a matter which could
Trump, Johnson, de Blasio leave Jews vulnerable Read More »
Bruce Ticker, International, USABy Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania — President Trump’s rebuke of Jewish “disloyalty” on Tuesday is disturbing on many levels, but primarily he was preaching to 5.7 million fellow Americans who he must think should be told what is best for them. Our president was patronizing any American Jew who does not go along with
Trump believes Jews can’t think for themselves Read More »
Bruce Ticker, Middle East, USA