(The following is a guest post of an interview by Daniel Vahab of Adam Levick, from Daniel’s latest newsletter. Daniel is “a freelance writer for various newspapers, with a particular niche in Jewish publications. His work has appeared in the Jewish Forward, the Jewish Post, the Jewish Journal, the Jewish State, as well as the […]
It’s Work, Being a Jew
Did you see that? Did you see what I did? I’ve been blogging obsessively on the subject of “labor” and workers ever since Scott “I’ve got a baseball bat in my office, Mr. Koch – it is Mr., isn’t it?” Walker started trying to roll back the twentieth century in Wisconsin. It’s developed into something […]
Scratch an Anti-Zionist
It isn’t just that to anyone not already disabled by bias the truth about Helen Thomas was readily apparent in her go back where they came from remarks. It was also that there were those, as always there are, who having convinced themselves that their own political animus is other and innocent, found over interpretation […]
“If that’s antisemitic, count me in.”
Not long after I published my previous post on “The Faces of Antisemitism,” I received the following tweet from @BarryLeonardini. American foreign policy is self destructive because of its unqualified support of israel.If that’s antisemitic, count me in. [sic] Somehow Barry Leonardi and I had become Twitter friends. (The neighborhood is going to the dogs […]
The Faces of Antisemitism Today
Most bigotries, counter-intuitively, circulate quite brazenly among us, though sometimes dressed as salvation: save a culture, save a race, save a nation. That last these days, in the U.S., takes the form of saving us from the foreign policy error of standing by the lone outpost of democracy and liberal, enlightenment values in what is […]