Bruce Ticker

Bruce S. Ticker

Bruce Ticker is a freelance writer based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Outreach or ‘Pod Squads?’ Breaking Down Bias on the Left and the Right

By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — Top federal officials and Jewish leaders spoke to each other, and together they spoke to the public at large, the public that reads newspapers, watches television news programs and listens to those who run our government. But they did not speak to the people that count. This is the […]

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Bruce Ticker, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, USA

‘Complicity’ With Antisemites is Bipartisan

By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — The Three Stooges of Mar-a-Lago launched a hate-fest that is hardly the first that is directed at Jews. Nor are Republicans alone in enabling antisemitism in America. Democrats have been restrained in responding to antisemites in their own ranks and advocacy groups have failed to deter antisemites and other

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Bruce Ticker, Israel, Opinion, USA

Jerusalem Bombings: ‘Collective Punishment’ Against Jews

By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — Aryeh Schupak’s family could not live as Jews until they moved from the former Soviet Union to Edmonton in Canada, where they immersed themselves in Jewish religious practice, The Canadian Jewish News recounts. The family would sustain and nurture it after they moved to Israel – when Aryeh was

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Bruce Ticker, Israel, Opinion

Deep in the Heartlessness of Texas: Is Abortion Law an Antisemitic Plot?

By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — Jewish Texans, estimated to number 176,000, should probably worry about the deep in the heartlessness of the Texas abortion law — with the reporting of Amanda Eid’s near-death experience. The majority of Texas lawmakers approved legislation that severely sickened Eid and almost killed her in late August because she

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Bruce Ticker, Opinion, USA

What’s Israel Got to Do, Got to Do with Sexism and Homophobia?

By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — Perhaps these students had not advanced far enough in law school to recognize that the murder of women and gays is, well, murder. Otherwise, the Women of Berkeley Law would most certainly have rallied against the “honor killings” of women that ravage the Arab world, and the Queer Caucus

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Bruce Ticker, California, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, USA

Anti-Zionism, Antisemitism

By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — A Detroit congresswoman, an Australian student editor, and a sex-abuse survivor from Vermont escape from a sanatorium and regale us with stories confirming their standing as antisemites. The trio has entangled Judaism and Israel, proving once again that from their perspective anti-Zionism is indeed antisemitism. A congresswoman we know

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Bruce Ticker, Israel, Opinion, USA

Pennsylvania Gubernatorial Hopeful Derides Jewish Day School

During a rally last Wednesday, Republican state Sen. Doug Mastriano reminded his followers that Democrat Josh Shapiro, the state attorney general, “grew up in a privileged neighborhood, attended one of the most privileged schools in the nation as a young man – not college, I’m talking about as a kid.” [Bruce S. Ticker]

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Bruce Ticker, Jewish Religion, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Girls School Athletic Trainer Bashes Israel, Loses Job, Claims Discrimination

Natalie Abulhawa had multiple advantages going for her after she filed a discrimination complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against a Main Line school: her own disingenuous voice, the aid and comfort of excuse-laden Arab-American spokespersons; and kid-glove treatment in a Philadelphia Inquirer story filed by an Arab-simpatico reporter. [Bruce S. Ticker]

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Bruce Ticker, Israel, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA