Bruce Ticker is a freelance writer based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
By 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,
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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, USABy Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — Once upon a time in America, Israel’s existence was held in as much high esteem as motherhood and apple pie. Even today, what reasonable person here would not want to stamp out antisemitism? In Washington, 19 members of the House of Representatives last Wednesday voted against a resolution to
Who Would Vote to Block a Measure to End Antisemitism? Read More »
Bruce Ticker, Israel, Opinion, USABy Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — “They love him in Israel.” Do they love him in Palm Beach, Fort Lauderdale, and Miami Beach, the main cities and their suburbs where most Florida Jews live? Or, for that matter, Floridians generally who live in those areas? Broward, Palm Beach, and Miami-Dade county voters consistently vote for
DeSantis Visit to Israel Not All That Kosher Read More »
Bruce Ticker, Israel, Opinion, USABy Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — The shock value of the spectacle that General Dwight D. Eisenhower witnessed at the Ohrdruf concentration camp on April 12, 1945, is now being revived on a smaller scale with the Tree of Life trial and a grisly attack in Las Vegas. In early April 1945, the army’s dreadful
Jewish PTSD…From Pittsburgh Shul to Vegas School Read More »
Bruce Ticker, Opinion, USABy Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — It happened in Berlin, of all places. On behalf of those poor Palestinians, they chanted “Death to the Jews,” “Death to Israel” and “Tel Aviv, the answer will come.” The day before, an Italian tourist was murdered on Tel Aviv’s boardwalk and a woman and two of her daughters
No Antisemitism Here… Read More »
Bruce Ticker, International, Israel, OpinionBy Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — Nashville’s political version of Bull Connor must have been too busy plotting the expulsions of Justin Jones and Justin Pearson to learn of Republican misfortunes in the preceding two days. Donald Trump was indicted in Manhattan on Tuesday (April 4) for financial crimes sans the “death and destruction” that
CRY RACISM!..And Let Slip the Brand Onto the Republicans Read More »
Bruce Ticker, Opinion, USABy Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — After news broke that three children and three adults were gunned down in Nashville, I spent some time perusing the Anti-Defamation League’s lengthy report on antisemitic incidents last year. It covered much ground, and one could say that nothing about it disturbed me. There was nothing about gun-safety laws
Jewish Community Must Assume a Stronger Role Lobbying for Gun-Safety Laws Read More »
Bruce Ticker, Opinion, USABy Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — It would take someone like Carolyn McCoy to explain the words of Kareem Tannous, a terminated college professor whom she defends in a letter published last Friday in The Philadelphia Inquirer. Tweets the biz prof on International Holocaust Remembrance Day: “#zionism is the disease #Free Palestine is the cure
Big-Mouth Profs ‘Dare to Dissent’ Read More »
Bruce Ticker, Israel, Opinion, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — The surest way to upset readers when writing about Israel is to trip over semantics. The surest way to upset me is to focus on semantics without addressing the larger issues facing Israel. I was zinged by no less an activist and writer than Stephen M. Flatow, whose daughter
What Price Annexation? Read More »
Bruce Ticker, Israel, Opinion