Category Archives: Anti-Semitism

Fragments from Evolving Manhood: A Full-Throated Protest Against Existence and the World

I have written before about the book of personal essays dealing with manhood, masculinity and male sexuality that I tried, unsuccessfully (even with the help of an agent) to get published in the 1980s. Evolving Manhood was the working title, … Continue reading

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J Street and Poetry and Jewish Politics and Jewish Poets and Jewish Poetics and Holocaust Trivialization and Israel and Palestine and antisemitism and How Can Culture be a Tool for Change if You Won't Let Culture do its Work? – Part 1

Note: Portions of this post were edited on January 19 to correct problems that resulted from careless cutting and pasting. Oy! So I was, with mild interest, reading the conversation that was beginning to develop around the post written by … Continue reading

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"The Myths of Liberal Zionism," by Yitzhak Laor – I want to read this book

Writing in the January issue of Harper’s Magazine, Joshua Cohen wrote this at the end of his review of Laor’s book: It often seems that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is just […] a textual problem. If so, then the muddle of … Continue reading

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That’s the News From Lake Wobegon, Where All the Women are Strong, All The Men are Good Lookin’, and all the Pogroms are Above Average

I used to live a block west of Garrison Keillor when I lived in St. Paul. Occasionally when out jogging, I’d cross paths with the humorist, out pushing his daughter in a stroller, and I’d nod politely, as talking in … Continue reading

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Reading Suheir Hammad’s ZaatarDiva and Kazim Ali’s The Far Mosque

This review was originally posted on a literary blog that no longer exists called The Great American Pinup. My understanding is that the blog was hacked and that attempts by the people who ran the blog to resolve things using … Continue reading

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Springtime for Hitler and Uncle Pat

Really, Pat Buchanan? Really? Why, when Paris fell, did Hitler not demand the French fleet, as the Allies demanded and got the Kaiser’s fleet? Why did he not demand bases in French-controlled Syria to attack Suez? Why did he beg Benito … Continue reading

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Genocide

This is genocide: CROW AGENCY, Mont. – Ta’Shon Rain Little Light, a happy little girl who loved to dance and dress up in traditional American Indian clothes, had stopped eating and walking. She complained constantly to her mother that her … Continue reading

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Your Friendly Neighborhood Terrorist

So the guy who shot up the Holocaust Museum is James W. von Brunn, Holocaust denier, neo-Nazi, and generally swell guy: James W. von Brunn holds a BachSci Journalism degree from a mid-Western university where he was president of SAE … Continue reading

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Oy Vey

So as you may recall, Arkansas State Sen. Kim Hendren, R-Gravette, yesterday was forced to apologize for calling Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., “that Jew” during a colloquy in which Hendren was explaining how he was in favor of returning America … Continue reading

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GOP Candidate for Senate calls Chuck Schumer "That Jew"

TPM: Arkansas state Sen. Kim Hendren, who is currently the only announced Republican candidate for U.S. Senator against Democratic incumbent Blanche Lincoln in 2010, has apologized for referring to Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) as “that Jew,” at a county Republican … Continue reading

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