Does Ukraine Need the Light of Hannukah?
The Jewish holiday of Hanukkah is celebrated (like all Jewish holidays), according to the lunar calendar. It means that each year they fall on a different date according to the…
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In Germany, Anti-Semitism Just Won’t Go Away
Sonny and Cher are among the best-known duos in pop history. Their 1965 single “I Got You Babe” is a must in any “best of” oldies-but-goodies compilation. On YouTube, the…
How COVID and Syria Conspiracy Theories Introduce Fascism to the Left. Part 2: The Red-Brown Media Spectrum
This part of the series describes what is truly the heart of red-brownism; a seemingly chaotic, and even contradictory populist blend of (ultra-)nationalists with mixed or unclear left/right political alignments.…
Semantics Matter: Why I Spell Antisemitism Without The Hyphen
In April 2015, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance issued a memorandum to Microsoft addressing the spelling of ‘antisemitism’, often rendered as anti-Semitism in its auto-correct feature. This article outlines why…
Holy war in the city of knives: anti-semitism and football on the streets of Krakow
I’ve seen enough episodes of Copa90’s ‘Derby Days’ by now to know that every city has its own unique footballing rivalry. But when Krakow’s two top-flight teams Wisła and Cracovia meet…
Black people are tired of explaining racism, but why are white people still not speaking out?
For white people to stay silent and do nothing is to remain complicit in the racist structures that one claims to want to change. Many black writers are no longer…
Busloads of Antifa Protestors: Rumors, Racism, and Moral Panics
From 1791 to 1804, the Haitian Revolution took place. Spurred by slave revolts, the revolution led to the founding of an independent state ruled by non-whites, and more importantly, formerly…
Antisemitism in Schools
*This was given as Keynote Speech at the 2nd Meeting of the Working Group on the Implementation of the Council Declaration on the Fight against Antisemitism European Commission to the…
Israel in the Eyes of the Contemporary Right
On July 10, 2019, a landmark BBC Panorama investigation documenting the Labour Party’s antisemitism crisis aired in the United Kingdom. The report primarily highlighted cases where member criticisms of Israel…
The antisemitic turn of the “Alternative for Germany” party
The relatively new party known as the Alternative for Germany (Alternative für Deutschland, AfD) and its relationship to right-wing extremism have been the subject of a great deal of intensive…