Why Explain Antisemitism?
Having a blog addressing antisemitism is important for raising awareness and combating prejudice. It serves as an educational platform, dispelling misconceptions and promoting understanding. Providing links to resources about antisemitism helps readers gain a comprehensive understanding of this issue and encourages them to take informed action against discrimination and hatred.
International Psychoanalytic Study Group on Antisemitism
On this Yom HaShoah, we remember the millions of lives lost during the genocide of the Jewish people.
Fathom – ‘When Iran says “death to Israel”, it means precisely what we saw on 7 October’
Behnam Ben Taleblu, a native Farsi speaker, is a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defence of Democracies, where he focuses on Iranian security and political issues. He speaks here with BICOM Director Richard Pater about the role of Iran in supporting its proxies, Hamas and Hezbollah, to wage war on Israel.
No More One or the Other
Yes, Ernst Jandl: Humanityyyyyy, we certainly could use a little bit of it. Since the attack of Hamas, I no longer know what this is supposed to be. It becomes a piece of paper on which many beautiful things have been written and then set on fire. And then the ashes, as perhaps in the case of Arthur Schnitzler’s divorce from his wife Olga before a Munich Rabbinic Court, the ashes were ground above the heads of the participants.
Georges Bensoussan: “Let’s stop seeing the Arab-Israeli conflict through the Western prism of victimhood
(…) To everyone’s misfortune, this conflict is mired in what Wilhelm Reich called the “emotional plague”, the reign of labile emotion which, with no regard for truth, opens the way to passion, entirely devoted to the affirmation of convictions where Nietzsche saw the opposite of truth. When, in our ‘society of the spectacle’, emotion becomes spectacle, tears blur the issues and make the origins of chaos disappear.
Musk and the marches
As if the world’s Jews don’t have enough problems right now. Still dealing with the aftershock of the worst slaughter of Jews in a single day since the Holocaust, over 200 of us still held hostage by the same murderous fanatics who carried out that pogrom, and with a worldwide wave of anti-Jewish hatred sweeping through our communities, the world’s richest man, Elon
Musk, decided to remind everyone that eliminationist anti-Zionism is not the only game in town when it comes to antisemitism.
Israeli women were raped by Hamas terrorists. Why do women’s organizations remain silent?
Israeli women were raped by Hamas terrorists. Why do women’s organizations remain silent?
Grundsätze der Solidarität. Eine Stellungnahme
Die derzeitige Situation, die durch den an Grausamkeit nicht zu überbietenden Angriff der Hamas und Israels Reaktion darauf geschaffen wurde, hat zu einer Kaskade von moralisch-politischen Stellungnahmen und Demonstrationen geführt. Wir sind der Auffassung, dass bei all den widerstreitenden Sichtweisen, die geäußert werden, einige Grundsätze festzuhalten sind, die nicht bestritten werden sollten.
Universities in Crisis | The Professors and the Pogrom: How the theory of ‘Zionist Settler Colonialism’ reframed the 7 October massacre as ‘Liberation’
This essay seeks to register and understand the deeper causes of the appalling reaction of parts of the western academic left to the massacre perpetrated by Hamas on 7 October 2023.
Michal Cotler-Wunsh’s powerful speech at the UN about the ever-mutating virus of antisemitism
A very powerful speech by Israel’s envoy to the UN Michal Cotler-Wunsh.
The Unspeakable Terror: Gender-Based Violence on Oct 7
Experts speak about the women and girls victims of gender-based violence in the 10/7 Hamas terror attacks against Israel. Untold stories of gender-based violence against women and girls perpetrated by Hamas in the 10/7 terror attacks against Israel. What are the impacts of captivity on GBV victims taken hostage? Why are global women’s rights organizations staying silent?
Kristallnacht
Today, November 9, 2023 is the 85th anniversary of Kristallnacht, a pogrom against Jews carried out by the Nazi Party’s Sturmabteilung (SA) paramilitary and Schutzstaffel (SS) paramilitary forces along with some participation from the Hitler Youth and German civilians throughout Nazi Germany on 9–10 November 1938.
The sin of moral equivalence
From Sam Harris’ Making Sense Podcast.
Episode 146: Acute Psychoanalytic Care of the Victims of the October 7th Massacre with Merav Roth, Ph.D. and Mira Erlich-Ginor, M.A. (Tel Aviv)
We begin by tracing the recent history of those organizations that are dedicated to the premeditated butchery of civilians. Both Merav and Mira share with us their experiences when the sirens went off on Saturday morning October 7th. We follow them as they attend to those who physically survived the mutilation, murder and kidnapping of their family members.