Why Explain Antisemitism?

The State Department’s Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism, the historian Deborah Lipstadt, says the prejudice is coming “from all ends of the political spectrum, and in between.” It threatens not only Jews, she says, but the stability of democracies.

It does not accurately describe either the foundation of Israel or the tragedy of the Palestinians.

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.

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.

(…) 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.

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?

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.

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.

A very powerful speech by Israel’s envoy to the UN Michal Cotler-Wunsh.

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?

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.