Tag: Racism
How intersectional myths killed the black-Jewish alliance
For the 1,000 black pastors who have joined a movement to pressure President Joe Biden to force a ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hamas, the issue is solidarity with the “oppressed.” This...
There’s no middle ground in the fight against DEI antisemitism
Claudine Gay resigned as president of Harvard University but as she conceded defeat in her battle to hold onto her post, she further poisoned public discourse about the controversy that undid her. In a New York Times op-ed,...
Knesset pushes bill to criminalize incitement against ultra-Orthodox
Israel's parliament on Wednesday voted (54 to 34) to advance a bill seeking to amend Israel's Penal Law to make it a criminal offense to incite against haredim, or ultra-Orthodox Jews.
Sponsoring the bill were Knesset...
How the ‘awokening’ of the media erased the working class and the Jews
How much of what is wrong with the country can be placed on the media? Much of the deep division between left and right—with increasingly little room left in the center—is driven by the...
Cancel culture isn’t just for academics anymore
For a lot of people, the phrase “cancel culture” is still a theoretical concept. They know it refers to people being punished in various ways for saying things others don’t want to hear, but...
Jewish groups react to mass shooting in Buffalo, lamenting dismal shared experience of late
While no Jewish people were victims of Saturday’s shooting at a supermarket in Buffalo, N.Y., in which 10 people were killed and three injured, Jewish communal organizations reacted strongly to the incident, which was...
European Council adopts measures to tackle racism, anti-Semitism
The European Council recently announced measures it will adopt to combat racism and anti-Semitism, which include urging social-media companies to remove racist and anti-Semitic hate speech and adopting the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) working definition of anti-Semitism.
These...
Massachusetts private college goes remote following anti-Semitic symbols, racist threat
Curry College in Milton, Mass., opted to make all classes virtual in response to a racist note and anti-Semitic vandalism discovered at the private school in recent weeks, reported NBC Boston.
Students were given the option to...
Jazz brings Jews and blacks together against anti-Semitism and racism
A two-day cultural event in New York this week brought together members of the Jewish and black communities in an effort to take a stand against anti-Semitism and racism in the United States, organizers...
Some ideas must be debated, but not historical facts
Some Jewish liberals say that they saw this coming. There were those who believed that the movement to stop the teaching of critical race theory in the schools was bound to negatively impact teaching about the...