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August 2, 202610 min read
They do not have to say “Jews”: how proxy language rebuilds antisemitism
How “globalist,” “Zionist,” Soros, and “the lobby” can carry old accusations of Jewish control, disloyalty, and social corruption without using the word Jew.
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July 30, 202614 min read
New words, old accusations: Mamdani and the politics of Jewish power
Criticizing AIPAC is legitimate. Mamdani's AIPAC formulation was antisemitic rhetoric, and his first defense of "globalize the intifada" failed Jewish New Yorkers. The evidence, the historical pattern, and the verdict.
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May 3, 202610 min read
Did the U.S. go to war with Iran "because of Israel"? The shortcut that turns policy criticism into an old story
Netanyahu lobbied Trump. Other allies, advisers, and U.S. officials shaped the decision too. Why the viral "Israel made us do it" story is not analysis, and how it echoes older antisemitic war myths.
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May 3, 20269 min read
No, Israel is not the reason antisemitism exists
Israel-related wars can trigger antisemitic spikes, but they did not create antisemitism. The same claims about Jews killing children, starting wars, and controlling governments existed for centuries before modern Israel.
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May 3, 20268 min read
Conditional belonging: the antisemitic purity tests imposed on Jews
Right-wing dual-loyalty accusations and progressive anti-Zionist exclusions use different politics to impose the same condition: Jews must disavow part of themselves before they belong.
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May 3, 20268 min read
Why Talmud quotes are so easy to rip out of context
The Talmud is not a flat list of Jewish beliefs. It is a layered record of argument, dialogue, minority opinions, hypotheticals, stories, and later interpretation. That makes quote-mining it especially misleading.
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May 3, 202610 min read
No, the U.S. did not enter World War II "to save the Jews" and World War II did not start "because of the Jews"
A source-backed correction to two linked falsehoods: the U.S. entered World War II after Pearl Harbor and Germany declared war, while the claim that Jews caused the war was Nazi propaganda used to justify persecution and murder.
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May 3, 20269 min read
Zionism is not the world's only ethnic or religious national movement
Zionism can be debated like any nationalism. But treating Jewish national self-determination as uniquely illegitimate ignores how common ethnic, religious, linguistic, and diaspora-linked national movements are.
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April 20, 202611 min read
Decoding Joseph Kent's NCTC resignation letter: what it says, what it implies, and which old stories it retells
A line-by-line read of Joseph Kent’s claim that Israel, the media, and “the lobby” manufactured war: an antisemitic hidden-control and war-blame story in an official resignation letter.
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April 20, 20266 min read
When “Zionist” becomes a slur against Jews
“Zionist” can name a political belief. When it assigns collective guilt to Jews or excludes them from unrelated civic life, it functions as an antisemitic proxy.
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