By RICHARD COHEN, WASHINGTON POST— Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s anti- Semitism is getting the better of him. Once again, the Turkish prime minister has trotted out the Hitler analogy in relation to Israel and what it has done in Gaza. “They curse Hitler morning and night,” he said of the Israelis. “However, now their barbarism has…
By ALAN DERSHOWITZ— Some well-meaning Israeli intellectuals are encouraging a blood libel against all Israelis for the gruesome murder of Muhammad Abu Khdeir, which was apparently committed by a handful of extremists, some of whom may have had serious mental problems. A front-page article in The New York Times (July 11, 2014) quotes Anshel Pfeffer,…
By DANIEL GREENFIELD, SULTANKNISH— From Berkeley to Boston and from Paris to Sydney, the season is upon us again. Hipsters twirl Keffiyahs from some Shanghai factory around their necks, don army surplus jackets and Decembrist t-shirts and head to the nearest Israeli embassy to scream about a new Holocaust. Shiites and Sunnis temporarily put aside their…
By RON JAGER— Global ant-Semitism is rapidly approaching a critical mass, creating not only a strategic threat on the Jewish people but on the very fabric of Jewish life in Europe and elsewhere in the world. The idea of a Critical Mass has its origins in nuclear terminology. In a nuclear reactor, critical mass is…
By FOX NEWS— The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) on Friday became the most prominent religious group in the United States to endorse divestment as a protest against Israeli policies toward Palestinians, voting to sell church stock in three companies whose products Israel uses in the occupied territories. The General Assembly voted by a razor-thin margin —…
By ISRAEL HAYOM— Israeli officials harshly condemned the deadly shooting attack in Brussels on Saturday, linking the incident to the anti-Jewish climate prevalent in many countries. Addressing his cabinet on Sunday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, “There are certain figures in Europe who are quick to condemn the construction of every apartment in Jerusalem, but…
By ROBERT HORENSTEIN, JPOST– IT WASN’T that long ago that Jews in America felt more comfortable and secure than ever before. Jew hatred finally seemed to be a thing of the past. Polls conducted by the Anti-Defamation League showed a marked decline in the number of Americans holding anti-Semitic views, from 29 percent of the…
By NAFTALI BENDAVID, WALL STREET JOURNAL— About a quarter of the world’s population agrees that a number of negative statements about Jews are “probably true,” according to a poll aimed at providing a statistical underpinning to the question of how widespread anti-Semitism is globally. In the survey to be released Tuesday, which covered 101 countries…
By CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST— Anti-Semitism is not a simple bigotry. It is a complex neurosis. It involves assigning malign intent to Jews where none exists on the one hand, and rejecting reason as a basis for understanding the world and operating within it on the other hand. John Kerry’s recent use of the term “Apartheid”…
