Why Explain Antisemitism?

It is Hamas that should go on trial at the International Court of Justice, not the Jewish state.

Rosalie Silberman Abella FRSC is a Canadian jurist. In 2004, Abella was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada, becoming the first Jewish woman and refugee to sit on the Canadian Supreme Court bench. She retired from the federal bench in 2021.

For many decades, virulently antisemitic forms of ‘anti-Zionism’ were central to the cold war propaganda of the Communist states. In this powerful essay Izabella Tabarovsky not only lays bare the entire shameful story of Soviet Judeophobia but shows us that, to quote William Faulkner, ‘the past is not dead, it is not even past’.

I refuse to teach students who lack basic critical thinking skills—or who condemn my Jewish identity.

Please set aside ten minutes to listen to this speech by Germany’s Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck. It covers everything with a strategically sober and morally firm perspective and avoids all the tired cliches.

A Times investigation uncovered new details showing a pattern of rape, mutilation and extreme brutality against women in the attacks on Israel.

There is an old Jewish joke – attributed to Sir Isaiah Berlin, but really, who knows? – that an antisemite is someone who hates Jews more than is absolutely necessary. Like all the best Jewish humour it is gently self-deprecating, mocking both Jews and antisemites, and recognising the bleak reality of anti-Jewish prejudice while refusing to buckle to it.

Dr. Dave Rich is one of the United Kingdom’s leading experts on antisemitism. He has worked for almost thirty years for the Community Security Trust, a Jewish charity that protects the UK Jewish community and writes about antisemitism and extremism for a range of national and international media.

The aggregation of evidence collected by Dr. Cochav Elkayam-Levy and her Civil Commission presents a horrifying picture that leaves no room for doubt: On October 7, Hamas terrorists systematically carried out acts of rape and sexual abuse. She has discovered, however, that there is no rush to acknowledge this abroad.

An interesting interview with Philip Spencer, who in the past was a member of the Socialist Worker’s Party. Originally in French, translated by google.

Niall Ferguson is a trustee of the University of Austin, as well as Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford. He is the author of, among many works, The War of the World: History’s Age of Hatred (Penguin).

Pierre-André Taguieff is a French philosopher who has specialised in the study of racism and antisemitism. He is the director of research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research at the Institut d’études Politiques de Paris Laboratoire. He is one of France’s leading writers about racism and on the ideology of the contemporary extreme right.