antisemitism 
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SOURCE: New York Times
5/18/2023
Deborah Lipstadt's Work Abroad as Antisemitism Envoy Complicated by Definitional Dispute
U.S. policy is guided by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's definition of antisemitism, though a growing coalition of scholars—including one of its original drafters—argue that the IHRA document is used to stifle criticism of Israel, particularly on campus.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
5/13/2023
Given to Antisemitic Rhetoric in Private, Why Did Harry Truman Champion Israel?
Despite expressing many negative stereotypes about Zionists and Jews in general, and facing pressure from George Marshall and other advisors, Truman recognized the new state of Israel.
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SOURCE: The Guardian
4/24/2023
Israeli Human Rights and Civil Society Groups Warn UN that IHRA Definition of Antisemitism Shields Israel from Accountability
Signatories include Israel’s largest human rights group, B’Tselem, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, the American Civil Liberties Union, and Israeli and Palestinian civil society groups, who claim that provisions of the definition equates criticism of Israeli policy toward Palestinians with antisemitism.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
4/3/2023
Is Holocaust Education Making Antisemitism Worse?
by Dara Horn
It's becoming clear that more lessons about the Holocaust won't address the problem of antisemitism in contemporary America, because it places both Jews and prejudice against them in another time and place.
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SOURCE: TomDispatch
2/16/2023
The Specter of Woke Corporate Communism Haunts the Republican Mind
by Steve Fraser
How do you run a politically useful Cold War without any actual Communism? Just declare that the organs of global capitalism are, in fact, red—borrowing some anti-Semitic tropes along the way.
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SOURCE: Jewish Currents
1/19/2023
Antisemitism is Resurgent. Why are News Organizations Screwing Up the Story?
When journalists turn to representatives of legacy Jewish organizations as authentic voices of American Jewry, they often end up generating reporting about antisemitism that strips away historical nuance and fails to accurately describe the forces driving attacks on Jews today.
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1/22/2023
The Pope at War: Pius XII and the Vatican's Secret Archives
by James Thornton Harris
David Kertzer's book argues that defenders of Pope Pius XII's actions during the Holocaust mistake his defense of the prerogatives of the Catholic Church for a defense of the victims of Nazi persecution and genocide.
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SOURCE: Jewish Currents
1/10/2023
Beinart: Antisemitic Zionism Isn't a Contradiction in Terms
Conservative Zionists have reached accommodated American evangelicals' demands for a Christian-dominated America in exchange for support for a Jewish greater Israel. The media are reluctant to discuss this connection.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
12/19/2022
Reissued 1933 Novel in Translation Captures Fascism's Rise Around You
Lion Feuchtwanger's "The Oppermans" captures the complexity of a dilemma faced by German Jews in 1933: whether a society has become sufficiently hostile to a minority group to force its members to leave.
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SOURCE: Modern Medieval (Substack)
12/1/2022
Which Medieval Jewish Stories Need to Be Told?
by David M. Perry
The history of European Jews in the medieval period is unfortunately dominated by discussions of death that make violent antisemitism seem inevitable and inescapable.
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SOURCE: Vox
12/1/2022
Pamela Nadell: US May be at High Tide of Antisemitism
Antisemitism is less socially acceptable than in Henry Ford's day, but it's become much more acceptable since the rise of Donald Trump. Has America reached a tipping point where conspiracy theories and collective slanders of Jews are mainstreamed? Also feat. Kathleen Belew and Deborah Lipstadt.
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SOURCE: New York Times
11/20/2022
Blacks and Jews—Again
by Michael Eric Dyson
At a moment of rising authoritarianism in America and the world, it is necessary for Black America and American Jews to recognize antisemitism as a species of white supremacy that threatens both groups.
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SOURCE: WBUR
11/17/2022
Boston's Role in the Antisemitic Right of the 1930s and 1940s
Professor Charles Gallagher discusses the Christian Front, a local branch of followers of Father Charles Coughlin, that pushed a variety of antisemitic and nativist political positions in Boston between the World Wars.
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SOURCE: Harper's Bazaar
11/16/2022
How Kanye West Uses the Language of Black Liberation to Serve White Supremacy
by Ashley D. Farmer
"West’s brand of Black Power is preoccupied with conspicuous consumption and wealth accumulation. Becoming a billionaire was not what the Black Panthers had in mind."
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SOURCE: Slate
11/1/2022
Sociologist: Yes, Harvard Discriminated Against Jews. No, It's Not an Apt Metaphor for Affirmative Action
by Jerome Karabel
Despite the enthusiasm of the plaintiffs and the conservative justices for the comparison, Harvard's treatment of Asian American applicants today doesn't match its treatment of Jewish students in the 1920s.
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11/6/2022
The Schlesinger Diaries—A Gift to Historians that Keeps Giving
by Rafael Medoff
The late historian's diaries highlight discrepancies between Schlesinger's public defenses of Franklin Roosevelt and his private knowledge of FDR's attitudes toward Jews and positions on the Holocaust.
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SOURCE: Jewish Telegraphic Agency
10/31/2022
Texas GOP Candidate for Congress Wrote Anne Frank Sequel Wherein Jewish Teen Finds Jesus in Auschwitz
In Johnny Teague's narrative, Anne Frank asks whether Jews have failed to recognize the Messiah. He insists that his story does not claim Frank ever converted to Christianity.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
10/12/2022
Reports Like Stanford's are Only the First Step for Universities to Rebuild Public Trust
by Ari Y. Kelman, Emily J. Levine and Mitchell L. Stevens
The realities of universities' involvement in unsavory aspects of history – like Stanford's revealed institutional antisemitism – contradict the heroic stories that fill campus promotional materials. But universities can't give a suspicious public any further reason to doubt their honesty.
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
9/16/2022
Isaac Chotiner Interviews Deborah Lipstadt
Is partnership with repressive regimes like Saudi Arabia a good strategy to reduce antisemitism in the Middle East?
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SOURCE: New York Magazine
9/13/2022
Chait: GOP Door is Now Open to Antisemites
Since World War II, antisemitic conspiracists have been persona non grata in the party. Now, as the Republicans seek to govern with a shrinking share of the electorate, they're taking any help they can get.
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