Tag Archive 'Antisemitism'
Bookworm on Sep 26 2008 | Filed under: Anti-Semitism, Education, Islam, Israel, Jews
The title of my post is not true. But it could be, which is really, really sad:
American elementary and high school textbooks contain many “gross misrepresentations” of Judaism, Christianity and Israel, according to a book-length study released this week by the San Francisco-based Institute for Jewish and Community Research.
“It is shocking to discover that history [...]
Bookworm on Jun 08 2008 | Filed under: Anti-Semitism, Iran
Michael Ledeen has a written a wonderful article that uses the evil in the world’s recent past (Hitler, Stalin), as a springboard for discussing the West’s resolute refusal to see the evil in its midst. I think the following paragraphs are the core of his argument, but the whole article is well worth reading:
By [...]
Bookworm on Jun 08 2008 | Filed under: Anti-Semitism, Barack Obama, Jews
I’m sure you won’t be surprised that many Obama supporters are new-fashioned Moonbat, Leftist antisemites. What you may be surprised to learn is that Obama’s official blog (not some sycophantic blog that an Obama groupie sets up on his own initiative) plays host to some of the worst antisemitic canards out there. LGF [...]
Bookworm on May 27 2008 | Filed under: Anti-Semitism, Arabs, Barack Obama, Iran, Israel, Palestinians
Obama adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski has accused American Jews of McCarthyism for being critical of Israel’s critics. He’s not the first and he won’t be the last. The pattern, repeated over and over as we learn more about Obama’s advisers, is that one of them speaks fondly of the Palestinians or harshly of Israel, [...]
Bookworm on May 23 2008 | Filed under: Anti-Semitism, Barack Obama, Israel, Jews, Media matters
Alan J. Lerner said it best: “Words, words, words! I’m so sick of words. I get words all day through, first from him now from you. Is that all you blighters can do?”
When it comes to Jews, Ed Lasky shows just how hollow Obama’s words of love are:
Barack Obama has also said that “…nobody has [...]
Bookworm on May 22 2008 | Filed under: Anti-Semitism, Barack Obama, Jews, Media matters
I read an interesting pair of articles today — bookends, if you will — that discuss Obama’s increasingly tortured relationship with American Jews.
The first, by Sabrina Leigh Schaeffer, notes two things: first, Obama’s Israel-friendly rhetoric and, second, his numerous associations with people who are openly antisemitic and actively hostile to Israel. What thinking people [...]
Bookworm on Apr 29 2008 | Filed under: African-Americans, Barack Obama, Democrats, Hillary Clinton
The most un-rev Jeremiah Wright elaborated today on his various statements during an appearance at the National Press Club. What he had to say was most enlightening since, when he wasn’t prevaricating or deflecting a point with self-deprecating humor, he sounded pretty ugly. Here are a few things that caught my attention:
MODERATOR: [...]
Bookworm on Mar 31 2008 | Filed under: Anti-Semitism, Arabs, Britain, England, Islam, Israel, Nazis, Palestinians
The accepted wisdom is that the intense hatred the Palestinians feel for Jews is a direct result of Jewish annexation of the West Bank and Gaza after the 1967 War. Of course, as with most propaganda, this is false. Aside from conveniently ignoring the 1956 and 1948 Wars, not to mention the Koran [...]
Bookworm on Mar 21 2008 | Filed under: Anti-Semitism
Charles Johnson, at Little Green Footballs, frequently notes how often YouTube happily hosts the worst kind of antisemitic garbage, while at the same time shutting down anything that might be perceived as just a little too critical of Islam. He’s not the only one who has noticed this, and a Germany Jewish group has [...]
Bookworm on Mar 13 2008 | Filed under: Anti-Semitism
It’s not a surprise — I figured it out myself — but it sure is depressing to see it confirmed:
Anti-Semitism, including government-promoted hatred toward Jews and prejudice couched as criticism of Israel, has risen globally over the last decade, the State Department said on Thursday.
“Today, more than 60 years after the Holocaust, anti-Semitism is not [...]
Bookworm on Mar 13 2008 | Filed under: Anti-Semitism
Or is Ann Coulter veering in being really nasty about Eliot Spitzer’s Jewishness, and about Jews in general, both of which are entirely irrelevant to his free-fall?
Eliot Spitzer was the golden boy with an absolutely charmed life. His parents were the children of Jewish immigrants, who created a Ralph Lauren lifestyle for their children.
[snip]
Forget about [...]
Bookworm on Mar 10 2008 | Filed under: Anti-Semitism, Britain, England, Islam, Muslim violence
It wasn’t bad enough that Scotland Yard was probably infiltrated by anti-government Islamist working for the Jihad. That’s carelessness, although probably inexcusable carelessness. Nope. What’s really disgusting is that Britain has announced to the world that an Israeli politician is banned from entering England because he criticized England, while a radical Hezbollah [...]
Bookworm on Feb 13 2008 | Filed under: African-Americans, Anti-Semitism, Identity politics, Jews
My post title imagines what I bet a lot of the older generation of Jewish Americans will think when they learn about the latest campaign tactics from the party that knows how to do identity politics. Steve Cohen, whose name is a giveaway as to his Jewishness, is running for reelection in Tennessee’s 9th [...]
Bookworm on Feb 12 2008 | Filed under: Anti-Semitism, Europe
Reading this, you can’t tell if it happened in 1938 or 2008:
An American tourist was kicked out of a cafe in Belgium for being Jewish.
Marcel Kalmann, a 64-year-old professor, told the Antwerp Jewish magazine Joods Actueel that he was ejected from the renowned restaurant Le Panier d’Or in Bruges after a waiter saw his yarmulke [...]
