Anti-Semitism
October 8, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
A slick, high-priced television production. Speeches from top officials. A live audience of thousands. A unified show of collective sorrow and military resolve. That is how the Israeli government hoped to mark the passing of one year since Hamas’s surprise and bloody attacks last 7 October. That is from “How Israel has made trauma a weapon of war,” an October 5 Guardian essay by Naomi Klein, “professor of climate justice
»
October 7, 2024 — Steven Hayward
Today is a good day to bring to bring to mind George Washington’s famous letter to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, Rhode Island in 1790, replying to their letter of congratulations to the first American president. They key paragraph from the middle of Washington’s reply: The Citizens of the United States of America have a right to applaud themselves for having given to mankind examples of an enlarged and liberal
»
October 7, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Our friends at Tikvah deem this the most consequential year in modern Jewish history. They refer, of course, to the invasion of Israel by Hamas this past October 7 and the related events since then. Well, since then…as has frequently been noted by the Israelis, they have been fighting a war on seven fronts. On every front the intention of Israel’s enemies is to wipe it off the map. They
»
October 6, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Tomorrow is the anniversary of Hamas’s massacre of well over 1,000 Israeli Jews on October 7, 2023. That is the purpose for which Hamas exists, and the massacre was celebrated by the overwhelming majority of Gazans as it was taking place. That the massacre included the burning of babies alive and the gang rape of Jewish women only increased the Gazans’ enthusiasm. Anti-Semites around the globe immediately joined in, protesting
»
September 29, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Some years ago, Ta-Nehisi Coates was the hottest thing on the Left, viewed as an intellectual of world-historical importance. Scott performed the excruciating task of reading Coates’s Between the World and Me. It won the National Book Award for nonfiction, but Scott called it the worst book he had ever read. Coates made a lot of money from his racist grifting, and then disappeared from sight. He hasn’t been heard
»
September 20, 2024 — Scott Johnson
In the tweet below, Aviva Klompas provides a good summary of the apparent facts underlying Israel’s astounding Operation Grim Beeper, as Michael Doran calls it. Doran himself comments in the thread “A few thoughts on Operation Grim Beeper.” As I get it, Israel seems to have manufactured and sold the beepers to Hezbollah through a Hungarian front. Perhaps the terrorists were attracted by the volume discount. On October 8 Hezbollah
»
September 17, 2024 — John Hinderaker
From a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing earlier today: “Fucking Jews…fuck Israelis.” The Senate Judiciary Committee has refused to hold a hearing on antisemitism for the last year. They held one today on “all forms of hate.” It was interrupted by horrific antisemites. Maybe now the Senate will take antisemitism seriously?! pic.twitter.com/Yh6Wi2cJlc — Shabbos Kestenbaum (@ShabbosK) September 17, 2024 Senate Republicans couldn’t get a hearing on anti-Semitism, but the Democrats allowed
»
September 14, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Former Attorney General Bill Barr is a Columbia graduate. At the Free Press, he considers that university’s descent into anti-Semitism: Reading the report issued last month by Columbia University’s Task Force on Antisemitism, one could be forgiven for thinking that it describes the University of Heidelberg circa 1933. It contains accounts of observant Jews being harassed and assaulted, and open calls for the murder of Jews. But no, this is
»
September 13, 2024 — John Hinderaker
In Newton, Massachusetts, a prosperous suburb of Boston, a small group demonstrated peacefully on behalf of Israel. A man harangued them from across the street, and then attacked one of the demonstrators: A pro-Israel rally in a Boston suburb turned violent Thursday evening when a passerby was shot during a scuffle after confronting a group of demonstrators, authorities said. *** Words were exchanged before a passerby rapidly crossed the street
»
September 12, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Crank pseudo historians must be a dime a dozen. As one such, there’s nothing special about Darryl Cooper. The focus is on Cooper in the episode of Piers Morgan Uncensored posted below. It features Andrew Roberts, Dave Smith, and Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon. It was Dillon’s tweets on X that originally drew my attention to Carlson’s promotion of Cooper and his teaching on World War II. I greatly respect
»
September 8, 2024 — Scott Johnson
In his 2019 review/essay on Tucker Carlson in the Claremont Review of Books, Michael Anton reasonably assessed: “Tucker Carlson has become the de facto leader of the conservative movement—assuming any such thing can still be said to exist. He didn’t seek the position. I doubt he wants it. He’d probably disclaim it, in fact. But the mantle settled on him nonetheless…” Perhaps without his show on Fox News, which Anton
»
September 6, 2024 — Scott Johnson
According to Tucker Carlson, Darryl Cooper “may be the best and most honest popular historian in the United States. His latest project is the most forbidden of all: trying to understand World War Two.” Carlson added: “I want people to know who you are and I want you to be widely recognized as the most important historian in the United States.” You may not be familiar with Cooper’s views —
»
September 5, 2024 — Scott Johnson
I want to add a footnote to my comments here and hereon Tucker Carlson’s interview with Darryl Cooper. The proposition that Tucker is only asking questions as a journalist is a meretricious falsehood. Tucker introduces Cooper as the world’s greatest historian. You may not be familiar with Cooper’s views — I was pleased never to have heard of him — but Carlson is. As anyone who pays the price of
»
September 5, 2024 — Scott Johnson
I want to draw attention to Park MacDougald’s take on what he calls “The Tucker Op” in his daily column at Tablet’s The Scroll. He takes account of more weirdness in the Carlson/Cooper hoedown than I did — e.g., Churchill’s alleged installation as prime minister by shadowy “financiers,” the likening of Israelis to the Nazis (“So, the Nazis were misunderstood, but also the Israelis are a bit like the Nazis.
»
September 3, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Is that a good thing? It’s debatable. At Columbia, pro-Hamas demonstrators disrupted the first day of classes: Dozens of screaming anti-Israel protesters swarmed Columbia University as classes kicked off Tuesday — resuming the chaotic demonstrations that paralyzed the Upper Manhattan campus at the tail end of last semester. The rowdy demonstrators formed a picket line and banged drums as scores of students waited in lengthy lines to pass through security
»
September 1, 2024 — Steven Hayward
There has been some salutary progress in recent months shutting down the divisive “diversity, equity, and inclusion” rackets on college campuses in many red states, but after the job of ridding us of the scourge of DEI attention needs to be turned to admissions offices. Thesis: Most admissions offices should be purged wholesale. Not only are most of them likely still violating civil rights law in the aftermath of the
»
August 31, 2024 — John Hinderaker
At Columbia, a new report details the orgy of anti-Semitism that consumed the school during the last academic year: Jewish students at Columbia University were chased out of their dorms, received death threats, spat upon, stalked and pinned against walls, as the Ivy League school devolved into a cesspool of antisemitic hate in the wake of Hamas’ Oct. 7 murderous raid on Israel. The new and disturbing details emerged from
»
