Tag: Racism
‘Get your knee off our necks:’ Jews and the new civil-rights movement
Fighting racism doesn’t necessarily mean fighting anti-Semitism. Fighting racism can sometimes involve elements of anti-Semitism. And fighting anti-Semitism can sometimes lead to accusations of racism.
If you study the trajectory of racial politics in America...
Which rights take precedence in a pandemic turned civil crisis?
The United States Supreme Court ruled last week that religious services were not exempt from government restrictions on free assembly in a pandemic. Only a few days later, what might have seemed like fair...
Coronavirus and institutionalized racism
The murder of George Floyd by a police officer in broad daylight came amid a high point in the continuing rampage of the coronavirus throughout the country, killing over 100,000 and infecting nearly 2...
Lifelong friendship between college football players kicks off at Maryland
In a 1961 game, Jerry Fishman, the only Jewish player on the University of Maryland (UMD) football team, told Darryl Hill, the first black player on the United States Naval Academy football squad, “I’m...
UN Panel Accepts Palestinian Demand to Probe Israel Over ‘Apartheid’
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), which the Palestinians joined in 2014, will summon Israel and the Palestinians to a hearing and conciliation efforts, senior sources in the Foreign Ministry...
Seattle police investigate racist fliers on synagogues, timed to Tisha B’Av
Police from Seattle’s bias crimes division are investigating after racist fliers were found outside at least two synagogues in the city on Tisha B’Av, a Jewish national day of mourning.
According to the Seattle Police...
No place for racism in Israeli military, says chief of staff
There is no place for racism in the Israel Defense Forces, and stringent measures must be implemented to that end, said IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Aviv Kochavi on Sunday.
Kochavi made the remarks...
Army ROTC Cadet removed for posting neo-Nazi, racist messages on social media
The U.S. Army Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) has removed a cadet from her unit at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte for posting anti-Semitic, neo-Nazi and other racist messages on social media.
“I actually don’t...
Can you be ‘100 percent pro-Israel’ and call its government ‘racist?’
The man with the best chance right now to be the first Jewish president of the United States is someone who thinks the prime minister of Israel is a racist. To say that is...
Sanders: Netanyahu’s governing coalition is ‘right-wing, dare I say racist’
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who is running for the 2020 Democratic nomination for president, labeled the government under Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as “racist” on Monday.
The self-described Socialist, who lived on a kibbutz back in the...