Antisemitism.BDS.Apartheid.

  After completion of the reading of each of the five books of the Torah in synagogue, the congregation calls out, “Chazak, Chazak, V’nitchazek!”  It might be translated: Be strong!  Be strong!  And let us be strengthened! I thought this a good way to begin. In my last posting I …

Antisemitism kills. We survived the Holocaust. What did we learn? During Roman times Jews made up 10% of the population of the Roman Empire.  Today, there should be 200 million Jews. Today, there are only 14 million Jews because of thousands of years of prosecutions, persecutions, pogroms, ghettos and shtetls, …

This is the entire story of antisemitism and the Israel / Arab conflict delivered in two simple maps. One map is based on Jewish populations in the 1930s, the other Jewish populations today. The maps are not just of Europe or the Middle East, but the entire Europe, Middle East …

It is 18 years since my aliyah.  Had someone told me back then that in less than 20 years there would be a plague of antisemitism in the US, I would have responded: “In America?  No way!  Impossible!” But I would have been wrong. Jew hatred is the oldest persistent …

For those of us who care about the well-being of the Jewish people, there is currently much discussion around the current Black-on-Jewish pogroms throughout places like Crown Heights and Jersey City and, even, Rockland County, New York. I was actually born in Rockland County. That is where I am from.  …

The subject of antisemitism in America is something I never thought would become “a thing” and I certainly never imagined it would become a series to write about. On Saturday night a domestic terrorist, for want of a better term, invaded a Chanukah party taking place at the home of …

I recently published a Facebook tidbit titled, “The Grounding of Democratic Party Racism is the Progressive Left.”  There I suggest that the progressive-left is racist in three primary ways.  These are anti-white racism, antisemitic anti-Zionism, and an imperial condescension toward those of non-European descent. In response, Corinne Blackmer, a Professor of …

In a BBC interview Andrew Neil was unable to get any kind of answer on why Jeremy Corbyn was unable to tackle antisemitism. I think the point missed here is that Jeremy Corbyn is antisemitic, so why would he want to stop it? He has been seen around the Middle …

There are constant attacks on Jews on campuses all over the world.  They come from societies and organizations affiliated with BDS. The Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement works to end international support for Israel’s oppression of Palestinians and pressure Israel to comply with international law. I attended an event promoted …

Much of my research is about exposing the true face of the Palestinian cause. I see a clear difference between having sympathy for the plight of the Arabs of Ramallah and Gaza and the hate that drives anti-Israel activism. Much of the criticism I face is from those who do …

I attended a Reform Synagogue in Maryland for Rosh Hashana. It was very important to them that we be reminded that these people are Reform Jews. Why? I don’t know.  I thought we were Jews. Period. The Rabbi led up to her sermon with the story of Choni the Circle …

America’s “call-out” culture has seemingly had a very easy time identifying racism, but a much more difficult time seeing antisemitism. Consider a new potential cast member for Saturday Night Light, Shane Gillis, who was found to have made off-color comments in the past. He was terminated this week before his …

Writing this came about as a suggestion from a friend after I experienced the first ‘live’ antisemitic comment directed to me personally.  That I will explain later.  She was more than very surprised that this had not happened to me previously, how I’d got so far in life without experiencing …

“Not only have we seen a significant uptick in online expressions of anti-Jewish hatred, but antisemitism has increasingly sprouted in regions that are typically less prone to such prejudices, including Eastern Canada, the Prairies and parts of Western Canada.” So, where is my Prime Minister?  Haven’t heard a word or …

Seems Canada has de facto endorsed BDS unless Prime Minster Justin Trudeau pushes back against the court.   Justice Anne Mactavish wrote:  Identifying settlement wines incorrectly as “Products of Israel” inhibits the ability of such individuals to express their political views through their purchasing choices, thereby limiting their Charter-protected right to …

Somewhere, sometime in the not so distant past, both the spelling and definition of ‘antisemitism’ has been bastardised.  Now is the time to set the record straight, and this has become my mission in life, as anyone who follows me or my website knows! I don’t know, but I tend …

In their zeal to avoid accepting any kind of Zionism ever, anywhere, any time or any place, the anti-Zionists (yeah, lets call them antisemites for short) are turning themselves inside out and devouring their own in their desperate attempt to not only deny any legitimacy to Zionism, but to avoid …

The German government voted in May 2019 to officially label the boycott, divestment and sanctions (B.D.S.) of Israel movement as antisemitic. The resolution entitled “Resisting the BDS movement decisively –fighting antisemitism,” calls on the German government to “cease providing premises and facilities under the administration of the Bundestag to organizations …

Apartheid. Just the mention of the word is emotive, evocative and provocative. For millions of South Africans who suffered under the apartheid regime, the word is synonymous with suffering, discrimination and racism. Today the word apartheid has been hijacked by Israel’s detractors as a way to launch a well-orchestrated assault …

While all forms of racism possess characteristics in common, antisemitism has one unique characteristic ― it tends to become genocidal.  Racism means treating certain people less favourably than others because of their race, ethnicity or skin colour.  Its purpose is often to keep members of the targeted group “in their …