Tag: Antisemitism

‘Israel Has Become Dangerous for Jews Around the World’

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For the last 2 ½ years, Israel has been carrying out what seems like an endless war of attrition — against the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, and now against Lebanon and Iran. In this article, Amira Hass, Haaretz’s correspondent in the occupied territories, explains how the Israeli regime’s claim that it does so in the name of all Jewish people around the globe endangers Jews worldwide by feeding the flames of antisemitism. TAn antisemitism advocated more and more openly, implicitly or explicitly, by the ultraright — as was the case with the rise of fascism prior to World War II — and threatens to enter the mainstream of bourgeois politics.

Syrian Australian Muslim Halts Indian Australian ISIL Attack on Jewish Australians

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The article below first appeared in Informed Comment on December 16, 2025. It emphasizes important aspects of what unfolded during the murderous attack on Jews at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, and its aftermath. “Muslims belonging to a small radical cult — born in the maelstrom of the American occupation of Iraq — perpetrated the unspeakable attack,” says author Juan Cole, a professor of history at the University of Michigan, referring to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), with which the two Bondi Beach shooters had a connection. “Yet a mainstream Muslim intervened to halt it.”

Murderous Attack at Bondi Beach in Australia: A Heinous Act of Jew Hatred

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The murderous attack at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, was a heinous act of Jew hatred. It should be condemned as resolutely as we condemn Israel’s ongoing oppression of the Palestinian people. As resolutely as we condemn all forms of bigotry and the violence it engenders. The courage of Ahmed al-Ahmed, an Australian citizen born in Syria who charged the younger shooter and disarmed him, saved lives. He deserves our immense respect.

Zionism: ‘A Form of Racism’

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This article, first published on November 24, 1975, by Intercontinental Press, reported on the passage of a resolution by the United Nations General Assembly on November 10 of that year. Approved with a vote of 72 to 35, the resolution answered yes on the question of whether Zionism is a form of racism. Fifty years have passed since that document’s approval. The controversy it generated at the time, and the arguments for and against it, however, are quite relevant today.

‘Which Way American Man?’ U.S. Homeland Security Posts ‘Antisemitic Dog Whistles’ in ICE Recruitment Tweets

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This article documents what it describes as “antisemitic dog whistle” posts by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. A number of the posts were ads by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in its effort to recruit thousands of new agents to implement the Trump administration’s goal of rounding up and deporting millions of undocumented immigrants. The revelations show that the Trump administration’s drive to “combat antisemitism” on U.S. campuses and elsewhere is a sham.

‘I Spent Decades at Columbia. I’m Withdrawing My Fall Course Due to Its Deal with Trump’

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This is an open letter by Rashid Khalidi to the administration of Columbia University, where the renown Palestinian American historian served as the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies for 23 years. “Although I have retired, I was scheduled to teach a large lecture course on this topic in the fall as a ‘special lecturer’ but I cannot do so under the conditions Columbia has accepted by capitulating to the Trump administration in June,” Khalidi explains.

Those Attacking Pro-Palestinian Student Protests Endanger Jews

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This article explains that, far from “protecting” Jewish students, those attacking pro-Palestinian student protests are the ones endangering Jews. Its author, Elijah Kahlenberg, is the president and founder of Atidna International, a university-based peace group uniting Jewish and Arab students. Kahlenberg, who is Jewish, graduated this spring from the University of Texas (UT) at Austin. Last year, he took part in UT student protests condemning Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza and demanding the school divest from entities that do business with Israel.

In Defense of Free Speech

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In the wake of the October 7 Hamas-led attack and Israel’s brutal retaliatory invasion of Gaza, new challenges have been raised to the right to free speech. Across the United States, restrictions on the democratic right to express one’s views on the conflict in the Middle East center today on college campuses. But precedents set there will be extended, with dangerous consequences for free speech, if they are not answered and opposed.

Israel’s West Bank Inferno & the Responsibility of Socialists (II)

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This is the second of a two-part essay that appears in the January/February 2024 edition of Against the Current. The author, Alan Wald, is an editor of that publication and a member of the Academic Advisory Council of Jewish Voice for Peace since 2016. Wald begins his essay as a review of the recently published book “A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy” by Nathan Thrall. From that starting point, he addresses some of the most urgent political issues arising from Israel’s increasingly genocidal assault on Gaza in response to the gruesome October 7 attack led by Hamas. Wald’s article will be of interest to anyone opposed to the current horror unfolding each day in Gaza as well as those interested in learning more about the history of the issues posed today.

Israel’s West Bank Inferno & the Responsibility of Socialists (I)

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This is the first of a two-part essay that appears in the January/February 2024 edition of Against the Current. The author, Alan Wald, is an editor of that publication and a member of the Academic Advisory Council of Jewish Voice for Peace since 2016. Wald begins his essay as a review of the recently published book “A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy” by Nathan Thrall. From that starting point, he addresses some of the most urgent political issues arising from Israel’s increasingly genocidal assault on Gaza in response to the gruesome October 7 attack led by Hamas. Wald’s article will be of interest to anyone opposed to the current horror unfolding each day in Gaza as well as those interested in learning more about the history of the issues posed today.

How Can the Jews Survive? A Socialist Answer to Zionism

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One might reasonably ask, what is the value of reviewing a brief pamphlet, written over 50 years ago, that its publisher has now taken out of print? The answer is quite a lot — in light of the brutal October 7 Hamas attack that left over 1,000 Jews and others dead, and the murderous Israeli response that has targeted the entire Palestinian population of the Gaza Strip. Even the title may strike some as jarring today. The Israeli siege of Gaza, the cutoff of food, water, fuel and other necessities, accompanied by a brutal air war, with a ground invasion apparently imminent, pose the real danger of the survival of the 2+ million residents of Gaza as an immediate concern to humanity. Is the survival of the Jews also posed? This review of the pamphlet, “How Can the Jews Survive? A Socialist Answer to Zionism,” delves into these questions.