Words of the Week: Peter Malinauskas
“‘I’vee got to be frank, I’m surprised they are being facilitated at Adelaide Writers’ Week. I won’t be going along to hear them speak.’
(more…)“‘I’vee got to be frank, I’m surprised they are being facilitated at Adelaide Writers’ Week. I won’t be going along to hear them speak.’
(more…)“My critique of Rob Eshman’s recent column, ‘When Did Zionists Become Snowflakes?’ comes from a probably unexpected place. I am a Workers Circle leftist and am entirely at odds with the current Israeli government. Our perspectives are not opposite. But I believe that the reality is far more challenging, complicated, and informing than anything suggested by the ‘snowflake’ rhetoric Eshman utilizes.”
Source: Henry Greenspan, “I’m a university professor. The reality on campus is more complex than ‘Zionist snowflakes’” (Forward)
“Here is a partial list of current accusations against Israel that we believe cross the line into antisemitism:”
Read the list in Nelson and Saenger’s “When Discourse about Israel Becomes Antisemitic: A Guide for the Perplexed” (Fathom)
“The first question Mr. Biden’s working group should answer is whether it supports the IHRA definition. With clear guidance about what anti-Semitism means, federal agencies, as well as other jurisdictions and organizations such as colleges and universities, would then know what they should be looking out for. The public would also have a better understanding of how, when and where anti-Semitism is arising.”
Source: Alvin Rosenfeld and Leslie Lenkowsky, “Can the Biden Administration Define Anti-Semitism?” (The Wall Street Journal)
Last week, “Identity/Crisis: The Ideas Behind the News,” a podcast of the Shalom Hartman Institute, dropped an episode on “Antizionism at Berkeley Law”:
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