By Ronald W. Pies | – My most vivid adolescent memories of the Jewish High Holy Days are the painful rumbling of my empty stomach as I fasted on Yom Kippur, and the sharp blasts of the shofar – the ram’s horn – sounding from the synagogue pulpit. I was one of millions of Jews […]
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Judaism
Hatred of One is Hatred of All: San Diego Synagogue Shooter had Attempted to Burn down Mosque
Earnest is an object lesson in the intersection of Islamophobia and anti-Semitism
On Int’l Women’s Day, Thousands of Ultra-Orthodox Assault Women of the Wailing Wall
Sources confirmed that two members were injured and received necessary medical treatment
2018’s Biggest Stories: Synagogue Murders & Anti-Semitism in America (AJ+)
Anti-Semitism frequently used by white nationalists and others on the right wing to rally against social change
America’s Dark History of Organized anti-Semitism Re-emerges in Today’s Far Right
Anti-Semitic violence is never solely the product of a single deluded mind, as the United States’ dark history of organized prejudice reveals
The GOP’s Dark Side: Trumpism puts Jews and other Minorities in the Crosshairs
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Republican Party is not directly responsible for the spike in hate crimes toward minorities. But it is indirectly responsible in three ways: 1. The party has largely allowed itself to be captured by the alien ideology of Trumpism 2. The party is running at least 16 far, far right […]
Gunman blamed Jews for Bringing Muslims, Honduran Caravan to US
with Issam AHMED in Washington | – Pittsburgh (AFP) – In the months leading up to Saturday’s massacre at a Pittsburgh synagogue, Robert Bowers used a little-known social network to spew hatred toward Jews, calling them the “Children of Satan” as he showed off his “family” of firearms. The 46-year-old faces the death penalty after […]
Does anti-Muslimism enable anti-Semitism?
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The outbreak of violence in the past week by two far right extremists, one of them a big Trump fan and the other inspired by Trump talking points but somewhat to the president’s right, has been deeply entangled with violence against minorities. Cesar Sayoc, the would-be pipe bomber, targeted billionaire […]
On how there is no Tradition of anti-Semitism in Islam
The history contradicts media stereotypes
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