Over the past week, white supremacists have launched repeated death threats against Washington's The Evergreen State College in Olympia. At least three sets of threats were sent or phoned to the campus by white supremacists, who said they planned to bring weapons to the school and massacre students and faculty. Evergreen is known as one of the most … [Read more...]
Autocrats, Plutocrats, Theocrats: Dog-Whistle Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia
Some of the world's worst leaders from Hungary, to Russia to Iran have joined forces in echoing anti-Semitic tropes bashing American-Jewish financier, George Soros. In their assault, they've been aided by some imprecise reporting by the NY Times correspondent in Iran. In early May, before the recent presidential election won by Hassan Rouhani, Thomas … [Read more...]
Israeli Educational System: Handmaiden of National Security State
The proposed "nation-state law," which I call (more accurately) the "apartheid law" would relegate Arabic from a co-equal national language to being a language with "special" indeterminate status. But in the meantime, Arabic is taught fitfully to Israeli Jews in the public education system. Almost everyone who studies Arabic seriously is doing so for one … [Read more...]
Israel’s Final Solution to the ‘Palestine Problem’
One of the ruling Bayit Yehudi's leading firebrands is Orthodox settler, MK Bezalel Smotrich. He has a long and sordid history inciting hatred of almost every Israeli minority, Jewish or Palestinian. He's hosted a "Beast Day" featuring live animals on Gay Pride Day. He called himself a "proud homophobe." He rejects the term "Jewish terrorism," and the … [Read more...]