Tag: anti-Semitism
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Still the Smartest Guy in the Room––Except…
by Joan Swirsky, ©2026 (Apr. 16, 2026) — Back in 2011, many years before June 16, 2015, when Donald J. Trump took that infamous escalator ride to announce his intention to run as a Republican for President of the United States, I wrote an article entitled Trump Is Already Running the Country. This was because,…
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Among the Jew-Haters’ Odious Traits is Ingratitude!
by Joan Swirsky, ©2026 (Mar. 13, 2026) — In the 1960s, the Russian KGB and Yasir Arafat literally invented the entire concept––or should I say fiction––of a “Palestinian people,” you know, those perpetual “victims” who have received billions —more likely trillions — in “aid” from the world’s bleeding hearts, but after over 50 years, have…
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What Obituaries Can Teach Us
by Joan Swirsky, ©2026 (Mar. 8, 2026) — When I was growing up in New Haven, CT., my parents subscribed not only to our local newspaper––The New Haven Register, still extant––but also to The New York Times and the now defunct (since 1966) The New York Herald Tribune. I think I was about eight or…
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Why All the Jew Hatred?
by Joan Swirsky, ©2026 (Mar. 1, 2026) — Did you ever go to Yankee Stadium? I’ve been there dozens of times and always felt thrilled and celebratory when they won, especially in the years when Mariano Rivera was closing and Jorge Posada was catching. I even wore my Posada jersey when I knew he would…
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The Duke and the Dork
by Joan Swirsky, ©2026 (Jan. 21, 2026) — Once upon a time, there was a good-looking, articulate, young boy named David Duke who attended a conservative elementary school in New Orleans. In Junior High, as an eighth-grade project, he was irresistibly attracted to the subject of segregation. He then attended a military school in Georgia…
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Whatever Happened to “Keeping the Bastards Honest?”
by John Mikkelsen, ©2025 (Dec. 31, 2025) — There’s an old hackneyed joke about how you can tell a politician is lying – his or her lips are moving. But has it become so commonplace these days that some people just accept it as a fact of life under Australia’s present Labor Government? That’s where…
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This Nation, This Christmas, This Warning
by Michael Bresciani, New American Prophet, ©2025 (Dec. 18, 2025) — “And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid. And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which…
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Yoo Hoo, VP Vance––Your Character is Showing!
by Joan Swirsky, ©2025 (Dec. 11, 2025) — “Maybe he had a stroke,” a nurse friend told me as she theorized about Tucker Carlson’s seemingly bizarre transformation from a rock-ribbed conservative commentator to a flaming anti-Semite whose hatred of both Jews and Israel found him interviewing––and nodding in delirious agreement with––fervid Hitler and Stalin admirer…
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Explaining the Geyser of Jew Hate
by Joan Swirsky, ©2025 (Aug. 10, 2025) — Since the day that Israeli Jews––men, women, children, infants, the aged––were attacked, tortured, murdered, raped and burned to death on October 7, 2023, the entire world––save for a tiny minority of people who still know right from wrong, good from bad, moral from immoral––have vilified, excoriated, and…
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What Lies Beneath
by Joan Swirsky, ©2025 (Jun. 5, 2025) — When I was a nursing student decades ago, a doctor friend told me about an interesting case in which he performed a routine yearly checkup on a 12-year-old boy, including blood and urine tests, and to his surprise this healthy-looking preteen had blood in his urine. The…
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Hear O Israel––How Do I Hate Thee?
by Joan Swirsky, ©2025 (Apr. 5, 2025) — King Solomon said, “There is nothing new under the sun” (Ecclesiastes 1:9). The sun rises, and the sun goes down… all streams run to the sea… what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun. In his prescience, King Solomon…
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The Bride of KKK
by Thomas Reiner, Quartz Mountain Commentary, ©2025 (Mar. 10, 2025) — “From the river to the sea” – Chortled slogan of Hamas One of the darkest chapters of United States history was the Ku Klux Klan, known as the KKK, that was formed shortly after the Civil War. The sole purpose was hatred for all…
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‘A Welcome Relief’: Trump Signs EOs Targeting Anti-Semitism, CRT, Gender Ideology in Schools
by Family Research Council, New American Prophet, ©2025 (Feb. 3, 2025) — It’s getting hard to keep up with the number of executive orders President Donald Trump has signed within his first two weeks in office — especially those that are marking significant strides in the fight against leftist ideologies. One of these battles includes…
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What If?
by Joan Swirsky, ©2025 (Feb. 1, 2025) — Just a few days ago, I took issue with the Doomsday Squad of prominent pearl-clutchers and naysayers––including Harvard Law professor emeritus, Alan Dershowitz; Director of Jihad Watch and prolific author, Robert Spencer; President of the Middle East Forum, Daniel Pipes; prolific British writer Melanie Phillips; and the formidable…
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Blaming the Jews: An International Pastime
by Cherie Zaslawsky, Truth Be Told, ©2024 (Jan. 16, 2024) — Ironically, Hamas’s gruesome attack on Israeli civilians on October 7th, instead of unleashing a flood of criticism of jihadist Muslims, has turned up the fire under the apparently ever-simmering cauldron of anti-Semitism. Everyone seems focused on the Jews—even obsessed with them. But the loudest…
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Hamas Terrorism isn’t ‘Self-Defense’ against ‘Occupiers’
by Paul Driessen, ©2024 (Jan. 6, 2023) — Council on American Islamic Relations Los Angeles executive director Hussam Ayloush recently defended Hamas’s barbaric slaughter of 1,200 Jewish, Thai, Filipino, Bedouin and other men, women and children. He claimed Israel is “an occupier” that “does not have the right to defend itself.” He condemned Israel’s subsequent…
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Harvard is Now a Verb
by Thomas Reiner, ©2023 (Dec. 20, 2023) — Harvard has successfully managed to transform itself into a verb. Metamorphosis is never easy, but congratulations, dude. In Oldspeak, Harvard was simply a noun basically signifying a cool university in Cambridge, MA but not the other really cool but stuffier Cambridge in England. In Newspeak, Harvard is…
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Young Americans Think the Holocaust Is a ‘Myth,’ ‘Exaggerated,’ or Political Ploy
by Family Research Council, New American Prophet, ©2023 (Dec. 16, 2023) — Philosopher George Santayana is often attributed with coining the phrase, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Such a well-known saying almost seems cliché. But does it have merit? Reflecting on Ecclesiastes 1:9, we know there is nothing new…
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Reliable, Trustworthy Sources for News about the Israel-Hamas War – My Suggestions
December 12, 2023 Dear Friends, As some of us continue our Hanukkah celebrations, many others are preparing to celebrate Christmas. I want to wish you a joyous, healthy and peaceful holiday! I certainly don’t want to cast a shadow on any celebrations. However, I do want to convey that the last two months have been difficult…
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The Jew Haters in Power Were Very Carefully Taught
by Joan Swirsky, ©2023 (Nov. 20, 2023) — [This article was first published at The Post & Email on July 18, 2021 and slightly revised on November 18, 2023.] In 1949, the trailblazing anti-racist musical “South Pacific”––created by composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II––debuted on Broadway to wild critical acclaim, running for over…