Commentary

29/12/2025

We know why the cops froze. Do I even have to say why? We see it in every European city—police forces instructed by their higher-ups not to intervene when there is an anti-Israel, anti-Zionist, anti-Semitic scene for fear of inflaming the Muslim populace.

The only thing I've learned—and, I'd say, the only thing Zionists who care about the threats to and the fate of the Jewish people in the past 24 hours have

29/12/2025

Hurwitz skillfully weaves her experience and internal deliberations into a history of how Jewish identity has evolved over millennia

Sarah Hurwitz was treated like a celebrity at the Jewish Federations of North America’s General Assembly in Washington in November, and her remarks connected to her new book, As a

28/12/2025

In 1928, an upstate New York town rejected the blood libel. It’s impossible to know whether American history might’ve gone differently had they embraced it.

In recent weeks, notable figures on the right have tried to either mainstream anti-Semitism or look away. Many conservatives and Christians find themselves put to the test, no longer able

28/12/2025

The American strain of Jew-hatred is social anti-Semitism, typified by university quotas and country-club bans.

In June 1858, police in Bologna seized a six-year-old Jewish child, Edgardo Mortara, under the justification that Edgardo had been secretly baptized as a baby by his housekeeper. Edgardo was taken

28/12/2025

How are we to explain the fact that hatred of Israel has, in a sense, become part and parcel of Irish culture?

In June 2025, the London-based journalist Brendan O’Neill visited Ireland, the land of his ancestors. He found it consumed with one subject above all: “It’s suffocating. Wherever you go, whether

27/12/2025

What Talmudic voodoo is going on here, I asked myself when I read this para. What kabbalistic machinations is this chick up to??

Editor’s Note: This story features very challenging and profane language. _____________ Damn, Becky. Damn. “What writing chops,” as Professor Grafton would say. To be fair, I expected as much. But

27/12/2025

Berman’s conclusion: “When you don’t work on [activism] with other groups, then you’re not going to have those other groups come into your defense. And that was the whole basis. It’s gone now.”

A dozen former officials from the Anti-Defamation League are now going on-record with JTA regarding why they have recently resigned from the organization: It is prioritizing anti-Semitism over non-Jewish groups’

26/12/2025

"This was what it meant to be an educated person and this was not in your hands as a student."

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26/12/2025

How are we to explain the fact that hatred of Israel has, in a sense, become part and parcel of Irish culture?

In June 2025, the London-based journalist Brendan O’Neill visited Ireland, the land of his ancestors. He found it consumed with one subject above all: “It’s suffocating. Wherever you go, whether