Bruce Ticker is a freelance writer based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — “This is an affront to American democracy and does permanent, irrevocable harm to our justice system,” says America’s Mayor. Rudy Giuliani was not referring to accusations that he conspired to overturn Georgia’s 2020 presidential election results. He was slamming the fact that a county prosecutor — a Black woman […]
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Bruce Ticker, Opinion, USABy Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — It was a paradoxical week for American Jews, as much as it was historic. The sentencing of Tree of Life synagogue killer Robert Bowers raises disturbing questions about antisemitism’s link to mental illness, the deterrence value of the death penalty and the merits of hate-crime laws. What does Bowers’
Tripwires in the Tree of Life Trial…Er, That’s Trials Read More »
Bruce Ticker, Opinion, USABy Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — It is a cruel irony that Israelis are preparing to move to Germany or Poland where their parents or grandparents survived Hitler. “They’re willing to accept a drop in their standard of living because they’re so worried that their freedom of movement will be curtailed,” Shay Obazanek told The
What Will Happen to the Refuge That is Israel? Read More »
Bruce Ticker, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, USABy Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — “There is nothing progressive about racism,” said. U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas. It was a shit-hits-the-fan moment last week when the U.S. House of Representatives reacted to Rep. Pramila Jayapal’s (D-Wash.) “racist state” dig against Israel. It was an empty resolution, officially having nothing to do with Jayapal. For
Censure Rep. Jayapal Over Dig Against Israel? Read More »
Bruce Ticker, Israel, Opinion, USABy Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — In The Philadelphia Inquirer’s food section, a Palestinian chef opened up a whole new front…quite an unappetizing one…in the propaganda wars over Israel. I missed a story about Anan Jardali Zahr a native of Acre, Israel, when it first appeared in the July 6 Inquirer. Zahr’s family moved to
Palestinian Chef Levels Tasteless Accusations Against Israel. Is She Full of Hummus? Read More »
Bruce Ticker, Israel, Opinion, USABy Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — Quoth BBC journalist Anjana Gadgil, “Israeli forces are happy to kill children.” Said Amr Khamour, 14, “I wished for martyrdom and I received it.” If Israelis are indeed “happy to kill children,” they have an all-too-willing market out there. Of 12 Palestinians killed in Israel’s in Jenin the other
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Bruce Ticker, Israel, Opinion, USABy Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — The gunman’s six words, as alleged during his trial, were both dreadful and predictable: “All these Jews need to die.” This comment, if believed by the jury, could be sufficient to tip the scales toward Robert Bowers’s punishment – the death penalty. The legal tussling over whether he should
From Pittsburgh to Parkland: Gun Violence and its Unintended Consequences Read More »
Bruce Ticker, Opinion, USABy Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — Almost immediately I shuddered when I switched on the television Wednesday night and learned that U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) was censured by the House of Representatives. I felt as if I was watching a replay of the trials of Alfred Dreyfus and Leo Frank. It sounds like a
Adam Schiff’s Censure Amounts to Antisemitism Read More »
Bruce Ticker, Opinion, USABy Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — The New York Times headline, “Fanning the Embers After a Fiery Speech,” is hardly explicit. It does not convey the meaning of the story that follows, and the story is relegated to a back section of the June 4 Sunday edition six days after another NYC newspaper broke the
NY Times Compounds Harm of ‘Fiery Speech’ That Bashes Israel Read More »
Bruce Ticker, Israel, Opinion, USABy Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — Guess what an organization should do if a supervisor repeatedly humiliates and bullies a Jewish subordinate in the course of joking about Jews who were exterminated in Nazi death camps. Not in the Canadian army. Military judge Cmdr. Martin Pelletier chastised Sgt. K.E. Bluemke for abusive anti-Jewish comments he
Holocaust Jokester Sergeant in Canada ‘Suffers’ Light Sentence Read More »
Bruce Ticker, Holocaust, International, OpinionPittsburgh’s Jewish community is currently forced to relive the murders of 11 members of three congregations who gathered to worship at Tree of Life synagogue on Oct. 27, 2018, and the experience is obviously most traumatic for surviving victims who testified at the alleged gunman’s trial. [Bruce S. Ticker]
Must Pittsburgh Jews Endure Another Trial? Read More »
Bruce Ticker, Jewish History, USA
By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — “Silence is complicity.” By his own standards, President Biden undermined his expansive project to confront antisemitism in America that he introduced last Wednesday, and 15 days before that he ignored an opportunity to directly take on an act that threatens the Jewish community. U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, a Democrat,
Biden’s ‘Complicity’ With Pro-Palestinian Rhetoric Read More »
Bruce Ticker, Israel, Opinion, USABy Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s Nakba Day resolution opens with a brazen lie: “…the Nakba is the root cause of the issues that continue to divide Israel and the Palestinian people today.” The Democratic congresswoman’s resolution for May 15 calls for commemorating the 75th anniversary of “Israel’s uprooting, dispossession, and exile
Multiple Nakbas Imposed Upon American Jews Read More »
Bruce Ticker, Israel, Opinion, USABy Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — Two antisemitic thugs in London and Boca Raton, Fla., picked on Jewish targets their own size to badger, as disgusting as these attacks are. However, two of their confederates chose Jewish schoolchildren outside a religious school in north London to blare a Hezbollah battle song from their car. “We
Those Pesky Antisemitic Thugs: How Low Can They Go? Read More »
Bruce Ticker, International, Opinion, USA