Category Archives: Palestine & Israel

When is calling a Jew a Nazi not anti-Semitic? When she's a feminist Jew.

Posted on October 9, 2002 by Ampersand

(Note: I’ve also criticized leftist anti-Semitism and partisanship. But because this post responds to others’ disagreements with me, and no one disagreed with that point, it doesn’t come up in this post.) In an earlier post, I wrote this: [Cathy … Continue reading →

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Anyone who doesn't fund Israel is an anti-Semite

Posted on September 22, 2002 by Ampersand

Harvard President Larry Summers weighs in against the anti-Semitic menace of divestment. According to The Harvard Crimson (via Meryl Yourish): A petition that circulated last spring advocating that the University divest from Israel, Summers said, is an example of anti-Semitism’s … Continue reading →

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Fibbin 'bout Dworkin

Posted on August 8, 2002 by Ampersand

There’s been much snickering in blogdom regarding Andrea Dworkin’s essay on female suicide bombers. But Andrew Edwards of Sketch has taken it a step further, by claiming that Dworkin “thinks that mass murder is an appropriate response to ‘the stigma … Continue reading →

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