Abraham Foxman

Illustrative photo of ultra-Orthodox Jews and a mosque's minaret. (Photo: Shutterstock.com)

A distorted portrait of Palestinian ‘anti-Semitism’

With a discriminatory system that includes two separate legal systems, what is a Palestinian supposed to answer when he’s asked if Jews don’t care what happens to anyone but their own kind? The ADL’s world anti-Semitism survey presents a distorted view of the world. By Inna Michaeli The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) – a Jewish-American organization…

By +972 Magazine May 19, 2014

ADL Director Abraham Foxman (justinhoch/CC BY 2.0)

No, Abe Foxman, America is not out to get the Jews

The U.S. Jewish establishment is starting to say publicly that anti-Semitism is the reason Jonathan Pollard is still in prison. This is sickening slander that reflects a deep-seated psychological problem. Abraham Foxman, long-time leader of the Anti-Defamation League, capo di tutti capi of the Israel lobby, scourge of all scourges of anti-Semitism (real or…

By Larry Derfner January 28, 2014

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U.S. Jewish groups use Holocaust guilt to push for Syria strike

A policy decision on American military action in Syria cannot be justified by an analogy between Syrian suffering under Assad and Jewish suffering during the Holocaust. Two weeks after a chemical attack in Syria killed at least 1,400, including 400 children, and one week after U.S. President Obama announced he favors a limited military strike…

By Mairav Zonszein September 5, 2013

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How American Jewish leaders are undermining two-state solution – via Jerusalem

Considering the U.S. sees East Jerusalem as the future capital of a Palestinian state within the framework of any viable two-state solution, mainstream American Jewish leaders’ insistence that Israel should be listed as the birthplace in Jerusalem-born American citizens’ passports undermines U.S. foreign policy and the two-state solution. This article was originally published in The…

By Mairav Zonszein July 28, 2013

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Palestinian textbook case closed, but more trumped-up Israeli charges expected

This week’s publication of a U.S.-funded study cleared the Palestinians of charges that their schoolbooks ‘demonize’ Israel. This was not, however, the first hoop they’ve been made to jump through, and it won’t be the last. The Israeli and U.S. Jewish establishment reaction to the terrible news that the Palestinians don’t demonize Jews in their…

By Larry Derfner February 7, 2013

More power to Gunter Grass for ‘What must be said’

His poem was especially brave because he’s German and because he’s vulnerable over his past. If I take Gunter Grass’s supposedly anti-Israel, anti-Semitic poem “What must be said” literally, I guess I could quibble with a couple of phrases. He says an Israeli attack on Iran “could erase the Iranian people.” An unknowing reader might think Israel is planning to nuke Iran, which…

By Larry Derfner April 5, 2012

Is Europe seeing a new wave of Jew-hatred?

While the murders in Toulouse are evidence that anti-Semitism certainly subsists in Europe, there is no reason to believe that European Jews need to be saved. In fact, the reality is that Jews are increasingly open and confident about expressing their Jewish identity. By Dov Waxman Reading much of the media commentary in Israel and…

By +972 Magazine March 25, 2012

Jeffrey Goldberg (L) with Andrew Sullivan at the Aspen Ideas Festival (Photo: The Aspen Institute)

Publisher’s Obama assassination call tips ‘Israel-firsters’ debate

Andrew Adler, publisher of the Atlanta Jewish Times, urged Israel to consider assassinating President Obama. In doing so, he resolved a silly debate Andrew Adler is the publisher of the Atlanta Jewish Times, and soon he’ll have to spare some time from his busy schedule to answer questions from Secret Service agents. Why? Because, when…

By Yossi Gurvitz January 21, 2012

Closing of Yale institute for antisemitism reflects continued polarization

It was recently announced that Yale University’s Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Anti-Semitism (YIISA) will be closing up shop in July due to what “was found in its routine faculty review to not have met its academic expectations,” says an official from Yale’s Public Affairs office. YIISA is the first institute in the US dedicated solely to the…

By Mairav Zonszein June 10, 2011