The misnomer “Anti-Semitism” is used here merely for ease of communication. In fact, we are talking about anti-Judaism, because – ethnically speaking – Semites comprises all Arabs, yet only a minority of all Jews. We list here contributions dealing with actual hostility against Jews, along with contributions dealing with the political use and abuse of false or exaggerated claims of anti-Judaism.
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ August 15, 1993
“Rob Reiner, Jewish director of 'A Few Good Men,' [says] 'Because Jews are the smartest people in the world, we are also the most hated.” I think Debbie, for one, is going to prove to be something of a disappointment to Rob on the smarts score. However, he also thinks that “Jews have always been…
By Paul Grubach ∙ June 17, 2014
I In May of 2014, the highly influential Jewish-Zionist organization, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) published their widely publicized and acclaimed, world-wide “survey on Anti-Semitism.” Many of the world’s important news outlets published a story about it, and when this writer carried out a Google Search for “ADL Global 100: An Index of Anti-Semitism,” 385,000 results…
By Nigel Jackson ∙ October 1, 2013
Background: On 20 May 2013 our national newspaper The Australian carried a news report headed “Labor MPs to back PM on anti-Semitism.” It included the following information: “NSW Labor MPs will use this week’s parliamentary sittings for a mass signing of the London Declaration on Combating Anti-Semitism. The Prime Minister became the first Australian leader…
By Richard A. Widmann ∙ December 1, 2011
The terms “Holocaust denial” and “anti-Semitism” are hopelessly bound together in the public consciousness. In an article published this November on a blog page of the Chicago Sun-Times, it was reported that the US State Department’s Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, Hannah Rosenthal, would pay particular attention to a growing level of Holocaust…
By Samuel Crowell ∙ September 1, 2001
Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland by Jan T. Gross. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2001. Hardcover. 216 pp., index, photos, maps. Samuel Crowell is the pen name of an American writer who describes himself as a “moderate revisionist.” At the University of California (Berkeley) he studied philosophy, foreign languages…
By Joseph Sobran ∙ July 1, 1997
Joseph Sobran Joseph Sobran is an author, lecturer and nationally syndicated columnist. For 21 years he wrote for National Review magazine, including 18 years as a senior editor. He is editor of the monthly newsletter Sobran's (P.O. Box 1383, Vienna, VA 22183. To order call 1-800-493-3348 or e-mail [email protected].) He also writes the regular “Washington…
By Kevin Macdonald ∙ April 1, 2000
On Monday, January 31, 2000, American professor Kevin MacDonald took the stand at an expert witness in the London libel case of David Irving vs. Deborah Lipstadt and Penguin Books. (Irving, a prominent British historian, had sued Lipstadt, and her British publisher, for hostile statements made about him in her book, Denying the Holocaust. For…
By Allan C. Brownfeld ∙ July 1, 1998
Allan C. Brownfeld is a syndicated columnist and associate editor of the Lincoln Review, a journal published by the Lincoln Institute for Research and Education, and editor of Issues, the quarterly journal of the American Council for Judaism. This article is reprinted from the July-August 1998 issue of The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs…
By Peter Harrison ∙ June 1, 1998
Separation and its Discontents: Toward an Evolutionary Theory of Anti-Semitism, by Kevin MacDonald. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1998. 325 pages. Source references. Bibliography. Index. $65.00. [Available for sale from the IHR] Peter Harrison is the pen name of an East Coast businessman with a keen interest in history who has traveled widely in Europe and Asia….
By Douglas Collins ∙ November 15, 1995
Doug Collins, an award-winning journalist, has worked for several Canadian daily newspapers, and is the author of several books. He served with the British army during the Second World War, and then with the British control commission in postwar occupied Germany. For more about Collins, see the Nov.-Dec. 1994 Journal, pp. 43-46, and, “Canadian Jewish…
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