antisemitism

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  1/15/2021
  

  That Time Private US Media Companies Stepped in to Silence the Falsehoods and Incitements of a Major Public Figure … In 1938

  by William Kovarik

  "There’s not much that separates, on the one hand, the mad fanaticism that held Jews supposedly responsible for their own persecution in 1938 and, on the other, the fevered delusion of 2020."

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  1/19/2021
  

  France Knows How This Ends

  by James McAuley

  "What is especially useful to remember about the Dreyfus affair now is the point of no return it represented, the repugnant embrace of lies by one half of society, educated people who were not ignorant but who had simply ceased to care."

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  1/8/2021
  

  A Scholar of American Anti-Semitism Explains the Hate Symbols Present During the US Capitol Riot

  by Jonathan D. Sarna

  The presence of conspiracy theorists and overt and coded anti-Semitic messages at the Capitol riot shows that far right ideology continues to target Jews in a conspiratorial, eliminationist worldview.

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• SOURCE: Forward
  12/20/2020
  

  Brandeis U. Press and a Historian Split over how to Talk about Jews and White Supremacy

  The racial justice protests of 2020 pushed up sales of Marc Dollinger's book on political relationships between Jewish and African American groups. But Brandeis University Press has balked at publishing a new introductory essay that suggests American Jews need to acknowledge and confront their privileges as white Americans.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  12/6/2020
  

  Roald Dahl’s Family Apologizes for His Anti-Semitism

  The late author's family has issued an apology for the impact of Roald Dahl's public antisemitic comments, suggesting that for good and ill Dahl's life shows the need to be aware of the power of words. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  11/30/2020
  

  1918 Germany Has a Warning for America

  German editorialist Jochen Bittner warns that Trump's insistence that the election has been stolen from him echoes the Dolchstosslegende rhetoric which sustained the ascendant National Socialists for years after the end of World War I.

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• SOURCE: Associated Press
  11/30/2020
  

  US Embassy in Hungary slams article likening Soros to Hitler

  A Hungarian culture minister suggested that the Hungarian-American Jewish financier's advocacy of stronger democratic standards in the EU--which reflect criticism of right-wing governments in Poland and Hungary--are similar to the crimes committed against the two nations by Nazi Germany, among other attacks.

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• 11/22/2020
  

  The Devil and Mary Lease

  by Alan J. Singer

  Populist and feminist agitator Mary Lease advised farmers to "raise less corn and more hell." Her brand of hell-raising, however, included a strong current of antisemitism that needs to be widely known.

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  11/16/2020
  

  The Impresarios of Trent: The Long and Frightening History of the Blood Libel (review)

  Magda Teter's new book examines the history of the pernicious antisemitic myth, its cultivation by Christian authorities, and its amplification by the growth of print and literacy in renaissance Europe.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/23/2020
  

  Allegations of Racism have Marked Trump’s Presidency and Become Key Issue as Election Nears

  Historian Carol Anderson identifies Trump's ruling vision with the post-Civil War reaction led by Andrew Johnson, who was "really the president of a few people, not the American people." Interviews with some of Trump's close aides affirm that assessment, and even Trump's West Wing supporters concede that he is widely perceived as racist.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  9/17/2020
  

  Richard and the Revolutionaries: Why did Lefties Love Wagner?

  "Wagner’s tale of the corrupting power of the golden Ring matches Marx’s musings on the “perverting power” of money."

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• SOURCE: Haaretz
  9/16/2020
  

  Study: More Than One in 10 Americans Under 40 Thinks Jews Caused the Holocaust

  A survey by the Claims Conference, an organization that coordinates restitution for Holocaust victims, showed most younger Americans are aware of the Holocaust, but there are substantial pockets of ignorance, denial, and antisemitic explanations. 

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• SOURCE: Foreign Policy
  8/31/2020
  

  Voltaire Spread Darkness, Not Enlightenment. France Should Stop Worshipping Him.

  by Nabila Ramdani

  Nabila Ramdani argues that the French Enlightenment thinker's abstract defenses of free speech and inquiry should not overshadow the concrete content of what he said and wrote, which included historically influential racist and antisemitic bigotry cloaked in the language of reason and science.

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• SOURCE: Times of Israel
  8/27/2020
  

  Rise of European Populists Today Echoes Dark Dreyfus Era, Jewish Historian Warns

  In new book ‘Twilight of Democracy,’ Anne Applebaum describes how her former friends helped bring about the Trump era, Brexit, and authoritarian governments in Poland and Hungary.

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• SOURCE: JSTOR Daily
  8/21/2020
  

  The Text That Stoked Modern Antisemitism

  The FBI recently tweeted out its archival copy of the notorious antisemitic conspiracy tract "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" without any context or explanation. Here's where it came from and a summary of its influence.

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• 8/23/2020
  

  Where Will the Culture of Internet Attacks Lead? Nazi Opponent Friedrich Kellner's Diaries Offer Warnings

  by Robert Scott Kellner

  The diary of a German Social Democrat and local official who observed and opposed the Third Reich offers a warning about today's unleashed online anger. 

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• SOURCE: Forward
  8/18/2020
  

  How Can Youtube and Reddit Successfully Fight Holocaust Denial, But Not Facebook?

  A new report from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue found 36 Facebook groups specifically dedicated to Holocaust denial.

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• SOURCE: The Hill
  7/29/2020
  

  Social Media's Holocaust Denials Are No 'Mistake' — They're Hate Speech

  by Greg Schneider

  It’s long past time for all social media companies to reflect on their role in enabling the hate speech proliferating on their platforms.

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• 7/26/2020
  

  Weighing the Evidence when a President is Accused of Antisemitism

  by Rafael Medoff

  In weighing the evidence that has so far been produced concerning Trump, one must consider the standards that historians have applied with regard to the other three presidents who have been accused of antisemitism—Richard Nixon, Harry Truman, and Franklin Roosevelt.

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• SOURCE: Forward
  7/7/2020
  

  McCarthy was anti-Communist. Was he also anti-Semitic?

  by Larry Tye

  McCarthy’s reckless accusations and trampling of witnesses’ rights were offensive to age-old Jewish values, with or without overt anti-Semitism. That’s easy to say in hindsight, but was also the verdict of Jewish Americans at the time.