Putting Heidegger in the library’s grave of discarded lies
Monday’s New York Times has an interesting article about the forthcoming English edition of Emmanuel Faye’s book Heidegger: The Introduction of Nazism into Philosophy in Light of the Unpublished...
View ArticleMore One-Sided “Reporting” from the NYT
Here’s the way the New York Times describes an ongoing controversy over whether the Berkeley Daily Planet is obsessively anti-Israel and perhaps anti-Semitic: For the last six years, The Berkeley Daily...
View ArticleConfusing Overrepresentation with Domination
An especially pernicious common fallacy is the assumption that if a given group is overrepresented in some field, that must mean that they dominate it, and are using their supposed “domination” to...
View ArticleFoxman vs. Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh made comments on his radio show (scroll down–if you find this post of great interest, you should probably read the whole three-paragraph monologue, which makes the relevant context...
View ArticleSullivan v. Wieseltier
The New York Times reports on the Andrew Sullivan vs. Leon Wieseltier controversy. The report is not quite right; it says that Wieseltier accused Sullivan of anti-Semitism, when Wieseltier actually...
View ArticleWhy is it Cool to Claim You’ve Been Called an Anti-Semite?
Three years ago, I wrote: on the one hand, we have friends of Israel who are too quick to label others anti-Semitic, though I believe that this phenomenon is declining, as it has received increasing...
View ArticleWhy United States v. Miller was so badly written
Before District of Columbia v. Heller, the 1939 decision United States v. Miller was the Supreme Court’s leading decision on the Second Amendment. Miller was, to put it mildly, obliquely written. As...
View ArticleDid Anti-Semitism Prevent Hank Greenberg from Breaking Babe Ruth’s Home Run...
In this recent New York Times article, Howard Megdal revives the longstanding claim that anti-Semites on opposing teams tried to prevent Jewish Detroit Tigers slugger Hank Greenberg from breaking Babe...
View ArticleGenetic Evidence Shows Common Origins of Jews
N.Y. Times: Jewish communities in Europe and the Middle East share many genes inherited from the ancestral Jewish population that lived in the Middle East some 3,000 years ago, even though each...
View ArticleMel Gibson and Oliver Stone
Even before Mel Gibson made his infamous anti-Semitic remarks, Gibson became a very unpopular and disliked figure in Hollywood due to the controversy over The Passion of the Christ and his remarks that...
View ArticleI don’t know whether to laugh or cry
but it’s really something to see various anti-Semitic blogs (I’m not going to link to them) trumpeting the fact that a Jewish alleged serial killer from Israel was caught today–even after the accused...
View ArticleThe Jackson-Vanik Amendment and Jewish Emigration from the USSR
I agree with most of what co-blogger Sasha Volokh says in his post on Gal Beckerman’s important new book on the political struggle over Jewish emigration from the USSR. For example, it is indeed true...
View ArticleThe Socialism of Fools
Telegraph: The head of the National Union of Students [Aaron Porter] had to be led to safety from a tuition fees rally he had been due to address after being surrounded by protesters chanting...
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It’s the Rorschach Test Joke Come to Life
“Me? Anti-Semitic? You’re the one who’s showing me the Jew pictures.” Here’s the statement, from the Iranian Students News Agency, a site backed by the Iranian government(emphasis added): National...
View ArticleTyler Cowen on the Political Attitudes of Russian Jewish Immigrants
In this post, Tyler Cowen asks why Russian Jewish immigrants tend to overwhelmingly support the GOP rather than the Democrats. The reasons are actually no mystery. As I have previously explained here...
View ArticleA Lesson for Israel Advocates from the OBL Reaction
The nonsense spewing from the various usual suspects–the European left, left-wing NGOs, leftist international law experts [update: here’s an excellent example from an Israeli commentator]–regarding the...
View ArticleAre the Proposed Circumcision Bans Motivated by Hostility to Jews (or Muslims)?
I’ve heard some people argue that the proposed circumcision bans (one of which is now on the ballot in San Francisco) is motivated by hostility to Jews. I quite doubt it, for a reason I mentioned in an...
View ArticleDelta Airlines complicit in Saudi discrimination?
In January, Delta Airlines announced that Saudi Arabian Airlines is joining Delta’s SkyTeam network of international airline partners. Yesterday, WorldNet Daily reported that Delta employees would be...
View ArticleJohn Mearsheimer Endorses Book by a “Proud Self-Hating Jew”
according to the publisher’s his publicist’s website [and confirmed by a search on Google books.] The proud individual in question would be Gilad Atzmon, who has remarked I’m not only a self-hating...
View ArticleJohn Mearsheimer Update
Lots of folks couldn’t believe that John Mearsheimer, distinguished international relations professor at the University of Chicago, would endorse an anti-Semitic book by fringe kook anti-Semite Gilad...
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