Bruce S. Ticker
Ticker is a freelance writer based in Philadelphia. He may be contacted via bruce.ticker@sdjewishworld.com
The ‘Highly Unlikely’ Happened in Afghanistan. Now What?
In the Famous-Last-Words department: “The likelihood there’s going to be the Taliban overrunning everything and owning the whole country is highly unlikely.”
The “highly unlikely” happened on Sunday as a dozen Taliban fighters garbed in...
Column: An Israel Critic’s ‘Worst Enemy’
Cori Bush, after serving seven months in Congress, now rates comparison to Franklin Delano Roosevelt. What follows is no compliment.
When Walter F. George campaigned for his fourth full term in the U.S. Senate, Roosevelt...
Who Screams for Ben & Jerry’s?
‘I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream for Ice Cream’
Lots of screaming in this season of ice cream lust.
First Ben & Jerry’s set events in motion by declaring to inhabitants of Israel’s territories, as...
Telling the Truth About the Palestinians
“If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.”
— Adlai Stevenson
“During the 1948 war,” says letter-writer Bob Holden of Los Angeles, “the Israelis expelled more...
Capitol Rioters Displayed Their Racism Jan. 6
Brazen racism – by using the most despicable racial slur possible – is all we need to know about the low-lives who invaded the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
We cannot chalk up their horrid...
Recruiting Allies in the Fight Against Antisemitism
Within a week, Pope Francis and two prominent black men took steps that can only benefit the Jewish people in a followup, perhaps coincidental, to a rally of Jews and others who gathered near...
The phrase ‘Jewish supremacy’ is brazen antisemitism
American Jews are caught in a paradox. We thought we have struggled “against all forms of racism, colonialism and injustice,” yet we are accused of standing for… “Jewish supremacy.”
At Franklin & Marshall College in...
War And Pieces: The Shape of Teachers’ Anti-Israel Drive
So much for “the peaceful solution” and “this very peaceful way.”
Amani Barakat must be joking when she twice touts the “peaceful” tactics of an anti-Israel drive among West Coast teachers’ unions. Simultaneously, Barakat continues...
Anti-Israel Forces Block Ship in Oakland, Food Festival in Philadelphia
It turns out that Arab terrorism is not restricted to Israel.
Advocates for the Palestinians exerted their terrorism talents in or near two prominent American cities 3,000 miles apart in recent weeks. First they prevented...
The Perils of Ilhan Omar: The Weird Way She Identifies With Jews
At long last, American Jews can bond with Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, at least in one sense. She now understands how we feel when she mouths off about Israel’s supposed oppression of the...