He who is for civilization to me

When the Maccabees fought the ancient Greeks more than two thousand years ago, their battle cry was "He who is for God to me." It seems to me that a similar outcry should go out to those countries who may still oppose the hate-filled Durban III conference scheduled to take place in New York next month: "He who is for civilization to me." Anne Bayefsky points out that five countries have to

Surprise: Breivik hated liberal Jews as much as Muslims

Anders Behring Breivik, the 'ordinary Norwegian' who murdered 76 people two weeks ago, had an overriding hatred of Muslims. But many other hatreds grew out of that one, including a hatred of liberal Jews. The document, which Breivik distributed online just before his killing spree, covers many subjects, including the evil of women's liberation (there are 200 references to feminism and feminists)

Never again!

Walter Reich explains why we are not likely to see another academic institution (at least in the US) like the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Anti-Semitism. Some of Yale’s critics have claimed that the university’s administrators shut down its first anti-Semitism institute for venal reasons – that it’s seeking large donations from Arab sources. I don’t believe that for a minute

Anti-Semites at Mondoweiss blame 'right-wing Zionists' for Norwegian massacre

The anti-Semites at Mondoweiss have found a way to blame the Jooos 'right-wing Zionists' for Friday's mass murder in Norway. An examination of Breivik's views, and his support for far-right European political movements, makes it clear that only by interrogating the nexus of Islamophobia and right-wing Zionism can one understand the political beliefs behind the terrorist attack. Breivik is

Defining anti-Semitism

Walter Russell Mead explains how to define anti-Semitism. The truth is that anti-Semitism is alive and well and not even particularly rare; it’s just that many of today’s anti-Semites like to think of themselves as enlightened, modern people and get all huffy and hissy if anyone accuses them of prejudice in any form. Many who in past times would have been open and honest about their