Iraq’s Legitimacy, Say: Towards Reclaiming Israel Education
Israel, known to most non-Jews as the Holy Land, takes up about one-tenth of one percent of the world’ real estate, and has been the object of fascination and preoccupation long before Google Maps. In one of my introductory courses to Jerusalem and the Land of Israel, I show students a 16th century leaflet made […]
Anti-Semitism and the “Jewish Theme” in Contemporary East-European and Eurasian Military Policy
The Jewish theme is not the least among many aspects of the two recent large-scale military conflicts in the post-Soviet countries − the new stage of confrontation of Azerbaijan and Armenia in 2020 and 2022, and the war in Ukraine that started after the invasion of the Russian army. While in all cases when this […]
Weaponized Antisemitism of the Iranian Regime
Iran under the yoke of the Ayatollahs has been, for a long time, a pronounced enemy of Israel, and this enmity is based on a deep-rooted hatred of Jews as an ethnic group. Antisemitic tendencies were never hidden in speeches or remarks that Iranian leaders have made for decades. Beginning in the 1990s, the Iranian […]
Sameness as Peacemaking: Extremists Virtue-Signal Through Ethno-Convenience
Sameness as Peacemaking”: Extremists Virtue-Signal Through Ethno-Convenience Far-Right Isolationists and Neo-Marxist Progressives have sought to appease tyranny by “making peace” through ethno-conveniencing related ethnicities into a single national group. Kurds & Persians, Jews & Arabs, and Ukrainians & Russians are the most common cases of this virtue-signaling. “Arab Jews.” “Russians with Accents.” “Iranic Kurds.” All […]
Defending Against, and Counter-Attacking, the Antisemitic Mind-Hack
Words are tools of war; specifically, cognitive war. And these tools effectiveness in gradually changing perceptions about Jews over the long term, and thereby ramping-up Jew-hate slowly and inexorably, rests on their systematic deployment. Antisemites use this approach precisely because it enables them to alter people’s decision-making abilities. Individually or collectively, the latest cognitive science […]
The Abuse of Holocaust Memory in India
The denial and minimization of the Holocaust and the abuse of its memory are some of the most prominent manifestations of antisemitism. Although a predominantly non-Muslim country, India is home to the third-largest Muslim population in the world. With 14 per cent of the population being Muslims in India, the second-most populous country, they make […]
What Would My Grandfather Have Said About Antisemitism in America?
The reverberations of shock and anxiety still echoing in the Jewish community after the horrific hostage situation at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas force me to reflect upon a critical question. Is this the new American reality for Jewish life? In recent years, it’s been easy for American Jews to look at global antisemitism […]
Antisemitism by Exposure: Doxxing Jews and Minorities
Doxxing is the act of seeking and publicly publishing online private or identifying information about an individual or a group with the purpose of exposing them to other online users. Doxxing is done to pressure or harass individuals or groups as they might suffer from frequent calls, emails, or even real-life harassment and violence from […]
American Antisemitism: A Historical, Political, and Psychological Analysis
Antisemitism has a long history in American politics. For centuries, politicians and propagandists on the left and the right have used Jew-hatred as a mobilizing tool to stoke fear of “the other,” as well as to find a convenient scapegoat on which to blame social, political, and economic problems. While Jews have experienced discrimination in […]
Commemorating Jewish Refugees from Arab Countries and Iran
There has been a Jewish presence in Arab-Muslim countries since well before Islam was introduced, and it dates back to before the 6th-century, before the current era. However, these communities have disappeared or are in the process of disappearing in the majority of Arab-Muslim countries. In fact, 865,000 Jews found themselves excluded in the very countries […]