Like, so what else is new? The other day I was talking to a senior Obama administration official about the foreign leader who seems to frustrate the White House and the State Department the most. “The thing about Bibi is, he’s a chickenshit,” this official said, referring to the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, by his nickname. This comment is representative of the gloves-off manner in which American and Israeli
anti-semitism
October 15, 2014
Kafka was a piker … [Darleen Click]
Waking up a giant cockroach is nothing compared to life at college when one is secretly investigated for fighting anti-Semitism. The decision of the American Studies Association to boycott Israeli universities in December 2013 had upset me. I wrote emails, circulated articles, and was pleased that my university president quickly declared his opposition to the measure. I joined a national steering committee that set out to fight the boycott and
August 26, 2014
Western Anti-Semitism is led by ‘mainstream’ media [Darleen Click]
The hostile obsession with Jews. The lasting importance of this summer’s war, I believe, doesn’t lie in the war itself. It lies instead in the way the war has been described and responded to abroad, and the way this has laid bare the resurgence of an old, twisted pattern of thought and its migration from the margins to the mainstream of Western discourse—namely, a hostile obsession with Jews. The key
August 18, 2014
“When Jews flee, a nation is sick” [Darleen Click]
There are only 400,000 Jews in France and they’re outnumbered by Arabs and Muslims by perhaps 15 to 1 or more. French law prohibits identifying citizens by ethnic background. There have been close to 8,000 anti-Semitic incidents in France since 2000 – and each time Israel acts in self-defense against the Palestinians, the danger increases. French Muslims have staged large and more violent demonstrations, including one a few weeks ago
August 10, 2014
What is the difference between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism? [Darleen Click]
Nothing. Less than a week ago we wrote about how The anti-Semitic shame of Malmö, Sweden continues with attack on Rabbi. It’s part of an outburst of open, unabashed anti-Semitism throughout Europe and the world, but particularly Europe, under the mask of opposition to Israel’s Gaza war. This trend did not start with the Gaza war. We covered almost exactly a year ago how many parts of Europe were becoming
July 28, 2013
“Why is it important there’d be Jews?” [Darleen Click]
FAREED ZAKARIA, HOST: A lot of Israeli-Arabs tell me that to describe Israel as a Jewish state essentially renders them invisible. And they are, you know, 20 percent of the population by some counts. Israelis have a state, Palestinians have a state. Why is it important there’d be Jews? MICHAEL OREN, ISRAELI AMBASSADOR TO UNITED STATES: Well, because the Jews are a people, and we have a right to self-determination.
July 23, 2013
Freedom From Religion Foundation — Judenhass [Darleen Click]
How dare a Holocaust memorial display Jewish imagery! An atheist group is agitating for the removal of the Star of David from a Holocaust memorial at the Ohio state house, reports the Columbus Dispatch. The Freedom from Religion Foundation (FFRF) objects to the memorial’s inclusion of the Jewish symbol on the grounds that “permitting one permanent sectarian and exclusionary religious symbol . . . would create the legal precedent, for
March 12, 2013
CNN Erin Burnett: If we want to be liked, don’t we have to just accept and honor the Jew-haters, or something? [Darleen Click]
Just.wow. Now try and imagine some person of pallor on FoxNews taking the same line about honoring a woman who turned out to be a member of the KKK.
April 29, 2012
Obama funds Palestinians, gives middle finger to Congress [Darleen Click]
You may recall that Obama has expressed how he’d like to work around Congress. So what if Congress froze the $192 million “aid” package to the Palestinian Authority? Obama doesn’t let a little thing like that stand in His way. Friday night news dump: President Obama has decided to provide $192 million to the Palestinian Authority despite Congress’s freeze on PA funding after its president, Mahmoud Abbas, attempted to declare