Tag: Progressives
Progressives ‘celebrating’ Chanukah
This year’s first Chanukah candle will be lit on the evening of Wednesday, Dec. 25, in a remarkable ecumenical link-up of Christmas festivities and the Jewish celebration of candles and latkes, sufganiyot and the singing of...
The left’s post-assassination hypocrisy
The failed assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump has occasioned much soul-searching and even more vitriol. Republicans are blaming the Democrats for the shooting, pointing to the left’s relentless attempts to paint Trump...
Time to throw out the progressive tub
Show me a city where there have been pro-Hamas (“Death to America”) demonstrations, university encampments and organized violence against Jews and, without exception, these will be cities that have stopped prosecuting shoplifters and chosen...
The antisemitic spring is over
The antisemitic spring is over but not forgotten. In one of the few victories over the haters, New York “Squad member” Rep. Jamaal Bowman was crushed in the Democratic primary 59% to 41% by...
Don’t look away from the primary cause of an epidemic of antisemitism
We could look at it as just another day in New York, where protests on behalf of one cause or another have been part of the culture of the place for more than a...
Stop ‘ideological indoctrination’ of DEI, says Jewish Institute for Liberal Values head
The anti-Israel climate on U.S. campuses today derives from a combination of 1960s moral relativism and antisemitic Soviet propaganda, David Bernstein, founder of the Jewish Institute for Liberal Values, said in an extensive interview...
The day the music died for progressive Jewry
The Oct. 7 Hamas massacre will be remembered as the day the music died for progressive Jewry. What was will no longer be.
Hamas showed for all to see, in many cases live on social...
Has Biden tipped the Democrats back towards a bipartisan consensus?
It’s all a matter of perspective. For Israel’s government, the obvious benefits of President Joe Biden’s brief visit to Israel, his fulsome rhetoric of support for the Jewish state and scathing denunciations of Hamas...
After calling Israel ‘racist state,’ Rep. Jayapal says ‘idea of Israel’ not racist
As protesters with Palestinian flags disrupted a Saturday keynote with several members of Congress at the Netroots Nation conference, Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) sought to placate the Israel critics.
"I want you to know that...
Giving ‘progressive’ antisemites the benefit of the doubt
Can you oppose antisemitism while at the same time make common cause with Jew-haters, their organizations and the ideas that propel them forward? The answer from the Biden administration and their allies that control...