antisemitism

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• Kansas Newspaper Equates Mask Mandate With Holocaust, Drawing Fire

  Rabbi Moti Rieber, executive director of Kansas Interfaith Action, said most if not all comparisons of current political events to the Holocaust are “odious” and said it’s “incoherent” to equate an action designed to save lives with mass murder. 

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• SOURCE: Times of Israel
  6/30/2020
  

  St. Louis’s Statue of Pius XII: A Double-Standard

  by Eunice G. Pollack

  If Yale has renamed a residential college named for John C. Calhoun and Princeton will cease to name its public policy school after Woodrow Wilson, the Jesuit St. Louis University should consider evidence of Pope Pius XII's actions in the face of the Holocaust and remove his statue from campus. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  6/11/2020
  

  Four Years Embedded with the Alt-Right

  Documentarian Daniel Lombroso followed several prominent white nationalist media figures for his documentary film White Noise, which will screen on June 20 through AFI. 

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• SOURCE: +972 Magazine
  

  How the GOP Brought Antisemitism from the Margins to the White House

  A new website tracking incidents of right-wing antisemitism finds that rarely a week goes by without the Republican Party boosting white nationalism. A long history of conservative maneuvering to portray Democrats and the left as antisemitic helps explain the lack of political consequences.

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• 6/7/2020
  

  Trump's Bad "Bloodlines"

  by Rafael Medoff

  Donald Trump recently continued an ignoble legacy of American presidents endorsing eugenics and other pseudoscientific theories of racial hierarchy.

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• SOURCE: Jerusalem Post
  5/31/2020
  

  Polish Historian Ewa Kurek: Coronavirus is ‘Jewification’ of Europe

  Kurek is infamous for her radical arguments about the Holocaust, which include denial of Polish crimes against Jews. Now she invokes conspiratorial ideas about Jewish control of Europe.

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• 5/31/2020
  

  Ways that Donald Trump is Just Like Henry Ford, And Why That’s Not Good for American Democracy

  by Victoria Woeste

  Trump's comments praising Henry Ford's "bloodline" are no coincidence. Both men used the American cult of the businessman to amass power and wealth while championing the idea of racial hierarchy.

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• SOURCE: Independent
  5/21/2020
  

  'Good Bloodlines!' Trump Praises Henry Ford, Motor Pioneer whose Antisemitism was Admired by Hitler

  The president also refused to wear face coverings for the entirety of his visit despite being urged by the company to do so.

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• SOURCE: Haaretz
  5/5/2020
  

  U.S. Extremist Blames 'Compliant' Jews for Holocaust in Idaho Protest

  Ammon Bundy tells crowd during anti-lockdown demonstration that Jewish people thought 'putting their head down and trying to not be noticed was the better way' in WWII.

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• SOURCE: Times of Israel
  5/4/2020
  

  Australian Jewish Group Calls on Website to Stop Hosting ‘Miss Hitler’ Pageant

  Anti-Defamation Commission urges GoDaddy.com web hosting firm to take down World Truth Historical Revisionism site, calling it ‘an incitement to murder.’

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• 3/27/2020
  

  A New Lease on Life for the "Jewish Nose" Lie

  by Moshe Phillips

  Anti-Semitic humor helps bigotry infiltrate mainstream culture and discourse.

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• SOURCE: Forward
  3/15/2020
  

  ‘The Plot Against America’ is Truer than even Philip Roth Knew

  by PJ Grisar

  Not that long ago, America welcomed its first Nazis.

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• 3/15/2020
  

  "Faster" Author Neal Bascomb on the Jewish Auto Racer who Defied Hitler

  by Neal Bascomb

  Rene Dreyfus, a former top driver on the international racecar circuit, had been banned from the best European teams—and fastest cars—by the mid-1930s because of his Jewish heritage.

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• SOURCE: Gainesville Times
  2/29/2020
  

  How a UNG Student Unlocked a Piece of History to the Leo Frank Murder Case

  Brittany Rhodes, now 30, first found the keys as she was disposing of leftovers from an estate sale. A tag on the keys read, “If found return to Warden J.E. Smith, Milledgeville, GA. State Prison Farm.”

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• 1/19/20
  

  A Courageous Catholic Voice Against Antisemitism

  by Stephen H. Norwood and Rafael Medoff

  As the harassment and beatings of Jews in the streets of Boston reached epidemic levels in 1943, one hundred Jewish boys and girls, ages 12 to 16, sent a poignant petition to the mayor. 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  12/12/19
  

  Donald Trump is attacking both Jews and the left with one clean blow

  by Kate Aronoff

  Anti-Semitism and anti-leftism share a violent and intimate history that is being revived under Donald Trump.

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• 10/13/19
  

  Trump and A History of Presidential Anti-Semitism

  by Donne Levy

  As with so many Trump blunders, he is apparently ignorant of the history and nature of anti-Semitism in America.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  8/21/19
  

  Trump's tweets about 'disloyal' Jews are laced with centuries of antisemitism

  by Emma Goldberg

  There’s a sordid history to charges of Jewish dual loyalty in the US – and that history is alive and well.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  4/8/19
  

  A Look At The History Of The America Is 'Full' Phrase Trump Has Used A Lot Recently

  That line, our country is full, has a particular resonance for Jews. 

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• 12/30/2018
  

  Alice Walker: In Her Own Words

  by Robert Cohen

  By reading a recent poem she wrote we can make a fuller assessment of the charge that she's anti-Semitic.