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Poll: Should Kossacks advertise on hate sites?
Suppose a Kossack knowingly accepts free front-page advertising on a hate site -- one bearing not only her own posts but also those of, say, David Irving, Ernst Zündel, Lyndon LaRouche, Edgar Steele...
View ArticleWhen Dr. Pangloss Shoots Himself
Some thoughts on a tenor named Jerry Hadley, who is now on life-support.
View ArticleChecking in with those Cuddly Boys of Hamas
So it's been a few months since the Happy Peace-Loving Peace-Lovers of Hamas took over Gaza in a violent coup. So it's a good time to ask, how are they doing, now that the Palestinians have had a...
View ArticleOf Ahmadinejad and Holocaust Denial (updated)
Just a quick note about Holocaust denial in reference to the NYC appearance of one of the world's most famous Holocaust deniers, Mahmoud Gonadigonad. (Did I spell that right?) I've seen some comments,...
View ArticleAhmadinejad and Holocaust Denial: a Follow-Up
A follow-up, now that Ahmadinejad has demonstrated at Columbia, that, yes, he's still spouting Holocaust denial. He pulled a number of things from the standard-issue Holocaust denier trick-bag that I...
View ArticleUK Rejects Academic Boycott of Israel
A note about the boycott-Israel movement's latest setback, this one in the UK. Nothing too earth-shattering, unless you like I/P stuff.
View ArticleGallup: George Bush More Hated Than Nixon
A quick look at the other number, the Gallup disapproval rating, in historical context.
View ArticleGeorge Bush: Most Hated in Gallup History
So the new Gallup poll results are out, and George Bush has a new record: the highest disapproval rating ever scored in the entire history of Gallup polling. Disapproval of Bush breaks record President...
View ArticleADL Slaps Down Ben Stein's "Darwin = Holocaust" claim
Want your head to explode? Here's how, in two easy steps. Go to your local theater complex and buy a ticket to any movie except "Expelled: No Intelligent Audience." Go into the theater playing...
View ArticleWho killed "Expelled"?
It was going to be the Religious Right's answer to Michael Moore. It was going to be a blockbuster that blew open a whole new front in the culture wars, and not so incidentally made the producers a...
View ArticleUniting The House Divided: Don't Gloat
Just a brief note on the day Obama clinches the nomination. Barack Obama announced his run for the Presidency from the steps of the Old State Capital Building in Springfield, Illinois. It was in the...
View Article"Cabals," Jews, and the Obama-Monkey T-Shirt
Yes, I'm going to get out that one-noted harmonica again, and I'm going to play the one note on it, just because some things bear repeating occasionally. Suppose that the bastards who sell that "Obama...
View ArticleHanukkah thoughts on Rick Warren
Well, everyone else has put in their two cents, so I might as well dive in too. I figure that, given that I'm neither gay nor Christian, I am supremely unqualified to address the topic, which is of...
View ArticleOn the word "antisemitism"
Through most of yesterday there was, on the recommended list, a diary about how to spot antisemitic dog-whistles. And interspersed through its thousand (!) comments, I ran, several times, across a...
View ArticleA Holocaust denier visits DKos
One of the troubling things about the I/P diaries is that it tends to attract antisemites, hoping that if they cloak their antisemitism as "anti-Zionism," they can get a few licks in against The Jew....
View ArticleThey'll None Of Them Be Missed
With apologies to W. S. Gilbert and a nod to E. K. Hornbeck of the Baltimore Sun. Feel free to add your own verses.
View ArticleBREAKING (up): Tripp's Parents
Uh-oh -- Family values alert! Little Trigg Tripp's parents, little Bristol and little Levi, aren't destined for a wedding after all. Could it be that failures in sex education and birth control aren't...
View ArticleOn Israel and the Democratic Party Platform
In a few recent I/P (Israel/Palestine) diaries, this subject has popped up: what is the Democratic Party's stance on Israel and Palestine? The 2008 Democratic Party platform, "Renewing America's...
View ArticleA Jew Gene Jamboree!
If you've ever been up nights agonizing about whether or not Jews are really Jews, this is your lucky day. Maybe. Yesterday somebody brought up (and then redacted away mention of) Shlomo Sand's recent...
View ArticleHow To Strike a 900-Year-Old Nerve
Generally when I want to see what the antisemites of the right are doing, I check out Stormfront. When I want to see what the antisemites of the left are doing, I check out Gilad Atzmon. As it happens,...
View ArticleRemembering Larry Gelbart
On Sept 11, 2009, one of my absolute heroes -- the comedy writer Larry Gelbart -- died at the age of 81. I thought it might, on the last day of this decade, be worth spending some time to remember some...
View Article10 Years Today: Holocaust Denial's Biggest Defeat
Ten years ago today, a judge in London handed down one of the most devastatingly lopsided legal defeats ever delivered in a high-profile case. And it went to a man who deserved it quite badly. David...
View ArticleHolocaust denial after David Irving
A week and a half ago, on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the courtroom defeat of the Holocaust denier David Irving -- Irving bankrupted by the very libel trial he had initiated -- I posted...
View ArticleAtlas Sucked
Here we are two whole days after the "Atlas Shrugged: Part I" movie release. You know, that movie that was going to rescue America from the socialist hoodlums now in the White House by spreading the...
View ArticleDear Warden: About Blago
A quick note from an Illinoisan to the warden of the prison Blago is about to spend the next dozen or so years within.
View ArticlePaul Ryan, Meet Andrew Ryan
The right wing has a fantasy that the world we're living in is resembling, every more closely, the fictional world of Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged." Turns out we're actually looking more and more like...
View ArticleAtlas Bombed, Part II
You may remember that last year, a low-budget film version of Ayn Rand's execrable screed "Atlas Shrugged" appeared in the theaters for about thirty seconds, and then dropped dead. You may also be...
View ArticleNate Silver's Math-Based Math
Nate Silver is getting hammered by the right for daring to use math-based math rather than faith-based math. In his defense, I thought it might not hurt to take a quick review, for non-math types, of...
View ArticleUK Labour Party Says: Goodbye, Jews
In 2012, the Republican Jewish Coalition and various deep-pocketed donors -- some Jewish, some not -- spent tens of millions of dollars trying to convince Jewish voters that Obama was too anti-Israel...
View ArticleAn aside on the Nazi analogy
Folks, just a brief reminder.Is Trump a demagogue threatening violence through a sort of paramilitary of racist bullyboys? Absolutely�.Does Trump hesitate even a moment before tactically deploying...
View ArticleI Remember Babylon
Exordium!Friends have asked for my reaction to Ilhan Omar, Jeremy Corbyn, and the whole issue of left antisemitism in politics. And I kept putting it off, because the more I considered it, the more...
View ArticleCorbyn, Milne, Antisemitism: What Happened
I’ve posted before about Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour antisemitism problem. It's about a month since the 2019 general election in which Corbyn went down in flames, Labour's worst Parliamentary result...
View ArticleUK Ruling Today: Corbyn's Labour Discriminated Against Jews
I’ve been waiting a long time for this story to drop — as in more than a year — so naturally it drops just days before the US election.Short VersionIn the December 2019 general election in the UK,...
View ArticleThe Bombing of Babi Yar
I can’t let it go in silence.Most of the Jews the Nazis killed didn't go to the gas chambers. They were swept up by paramilitary as Nazis captured territories to the east. One of the largest Jewish...
View ArticleHow do you know who your friends are?
A few days ago, as a failed exercise in rage containment, I did a short diary on the Russian bombing of the Holocaust mass grave named Babyn Yar (Babi Yar in Russian), a place where over thirty...
View ArticleThe Corbyn Antisemitism Thing Timeline
I’m drafting a diary about defining antisemitism, on the left and on the right, spurred by David Baddiel’s recent book “Jews Don’t Count”— likely to be the only book in history blurbed by Sarah...
View Article"Jews Don't Count"
Some thoughts crystalized by a recent book from David Baddiel, Jews Don’t Count.Baddiel is a well-regarded children’s author in the UK, comic television personality, twitterator, and — probably most...
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Antisemitism 102: The Blood Libel
Two weeks ago I did a lo-o-ong diary on the IHRA “working definition” of antisemitism and what it means for the left, and — to my amazement — it hit the rec list and started what was mostly a fruitful...
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It's the little details that break your heart.
Of Shakespeare’s big four tragedies, one of them went unperformed for quite a long time when the theaters were reopened after the Restoration: King Lear. It was just too depressing on two many levels....
View ArticleMy Stupid, Inexplicable Hobby Becomes Relevant, Damn It
Everybody has hobbies. Some are stupid, some are arcane, but most are explicable.If you check my past diaries, you'll know one of mine: I keep an eye on the Holocaust deniers and their arguments, and...
View ArticleJewish-American Heritage Month: Is Yossarian Jewish?
Meet one of my heroes.May is Jewish American Heritage Month, and this one began in spectacular fashion: the May 1 centennial of the birth of one of the giants of American Jewish culture, author Joseph...
View ArticleMy Roger Waters Diary
I had something else planned for this diary, something more comprehensive about antisemitism, the left, and how the left sometimes struggles to see left-wing antisemitism as antisemitism, a rank...
View ArticleAn Antisemitic Tune in Three Keys
Yeah, Roger Waters’s antisemitism is in the news again. And yeah, I’m gonna diary about it.No, Roger Waters isn’t an antisemite for wearing the Nazoid crossed-hammers costume. Waters is opposed to...
View ArticleCongressman Renounces DSA after "Hate-Filled and Antisemitic Rally"
Shri Thanedar is a Congressman from Michigan, right next to Rep Tlaib’s district, and he was up until today a member of the Democratic Socialists of America.No more. Why? Here’s his statement:Today I...
View ArticleMeanwhile, the Labour UK Party
I’ve written a few diaries now and then about the Labour Party in the UK, usually in the context of a long-smouldering antisemitism crisis under its hapless previous leader, the tankie Jeremy Corbyn,...
View ArticleAntisemitism ≠"Against Semites"
I’m still planning a diary about antisemitic anti-Zionist Soviet propaganda and the shadow it still throws across the rhetoric of the left. But this diary squeaked out.It’s about the word...
View ArticleAside on Antisemitism on the Left
This time around I decided to put a little more narrative into my narrative. I’m still going to do a diary about anti-Soviet anti-Zionist antisemitism, as I’ve been promising, but let’s get a little...
View ArticleHappy Hundredth to "Rhapsody in Blue"
Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” got its premiere one century ago tonight.It was my gateway drug to classical music. I had the ill fortune of being in high school during the heyday of disco, in which...
View ArticleWhen Bernstein Borrows
I. BernsteinFolks, a lot to write about on the Jews-are-news front, but today it’s this — one of my favorite works of all is having a birthday. Sort of. So I’m going to do some amateur...
View ArticleAntisemitism: the Tankie Template
If there’s a topic I keep coming back to, it’s left-wing antisemitism. Because we should know better, but we don’t, not always.It seems likely there will be Gaza protests at the Democratic Convention,...
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