Bruce S. Ticker
Ticker is a freelance writer based in Philadelphia. He may be contacted via bruce.ticker@sdjewishworld.com
Mobilizing Antisemitism
“The Shoah is part of Paris’ history”
– Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo
“The speech by Fatima Mousa Mohammed at the CUNY Law School commencement shocked and horrified so many people in New York and around the...
Seeking Peace With a Dysfunctional ‘Family’
Their offense was to shake hands with the devil.
After literally shaking hands with a foreign athlete during an international competition last month, an Iranian weightlifter was barred for life from entering his nation’s sports...
What Will Happen to the Refuge That is Israel?
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...
Censure Rep. Jayapal Over Dig Against Israel?
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”...
Child Abuse, ‘Palestine’-Style
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...
From Pittsburgh to Parkland: Gun Violence and its Unintended Consequences
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...
NY Times Compounds Harm of ‘Fiery Speech’ That Bashes Israel
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...
Holocaust Jokester Sergeant in Canada ‘Suffers’ Light Sentence
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...
Biden’s ‘Complicity’ With Pro-Palestinian Rhetoric
“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...
Who Would Vote to Block a Measure to End Antisemitism?
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,...