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Showing posts with label Anti-Semitism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Anti-Semitism. Show all posts

Thursday, March 12, 2009

Israel to Use 'anti-Semitic' Card Against Chavez?

Tel Aviv embarks on a quest to turn its allies against Caracas after President Hugo Chavez ordered a break in diplomacy with Israel.Israel's Foreign Ministry has been urging fifteen different states to pressure the outspoken president to "rein in a recent wave of anti-Semitic attacks against Venezuela's Jews," Israeli daily Ha'aretz reported on Wednesday.

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Thursday, March 05, 2009

Bishop Williamson and `Holocaust Denial’: Why the Uproar?

The furor over the “Holocaust denial” remarks of Bishop Richard Williamson is not a controversy about historical truth, the role of history in society, anti-Semitism or “hate.” This affair is really about power -- about those who really wield it in our culture, as well as about how and why that power is used.

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Tuesday, December 02, 2008

Jews Must Face "Dark Side" of Judaism

Stephen Bloom has a love of fairness and justice typical of many liberal American Jews. A journalism professor, he saw the opening of a Kosher meat packer by Hasidic Jews in Postville Iowa in 1987 as an opportunity to study the Jewish-gentile dynamic in microcosm. He discovered more about Judaism and the causes of anti-Semitism than perhaps he wanted to know.

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