/ PART ONE — Ben M. Freeman: Insights on Jewish Pride and How a Hostile World Fosters Jewish Shame
Ben M. Freeman is a renowned thinker, educator, and writer who focuses on Jewish identity…
Ben M. Freeman is a renowned thinker, educator, and writer who focuses on Jewish identity…
Ben M. Freeman is a thinker, educator, and writer who focuses on Jewish identity, Jew-hatred, and the Holocaust.
The hyphen, a rather innocuous punctuation mark, would hardly seem to be the focus of controversy. It is, however, when it comes to referring to Jew-hatred and Jew-haters. As you may have noticed, at AntisemitismExposed.org we decided to go with the unhyphenated version. (Exceptions: When anti-Semitism is used in published titles and direct quotes.) We…
During the Second World War, Aristides de Sousa Mendes was Portugal’s counsul-general in the French city of Bordeaux. Antonio Salazar, Portugal’s authoritarian leader, forbade the issuance of Portuguese visas to refugees desperate to escape Nazi Germany. Sousa Mendes defied his own government and provided tens of thousands of such life-saving documents — including to many…
Tirzah Firestone is both an ordained rabbi — affiliated with the Jewish Renewal movement — and a PhD analytical psychotherapist…
It should come as no surprise that Donald Trump, in a recent interview with an Israeli journalist, voiced opinions that bring to mind longstanding antisemitic tropes. As we noted in the NEWS section above, AntisemitismExposed previously focused on his objectionable use of Jewish stereotypes in September 2020. Indeed, I wrote much the same commentary…
German Nazi Nikolaus “Klaus” Barbie was known as the “Butcher of Lyon” for having personally tortured prisoners of the Gestapo…
The Jews of Yemen constituted one of the oldest Jewish communities in the world, dating back two millennia. That community…
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WOW! FACTS
Inventor of the mobile phone, “Father of the Internet,” inventor of the video game cosole, inventor fo the laser, inventor of the gramophone, creator of the Barbie Doll, creator of the cruise ship, “Father of Immunology,” inventor fo the modern condom (!), a prime minister of the U.K., a three-time prime minister of France, a president of Switzerland and the primary financier of the American Revolution?
We knew you could guess… all of them are (or were) Jews!
To learn about these and many more AmazingJews, watch a compilation put together by JewOfTheWeek.net in 2015 and posted on YouTube. >>
Nobel Prizes
Although Jews are less than two-tenths of one percent of the world’s population, more than 20% of Nobel Prize winners have been Jewish. Source: Google
Polio Vaccine
Millions and millions of people worldwide have been spared the ravages of poliomyelitis — including paralysis and even death — thanks to research conducted by Jewish scientist Dr. Jonas Salk and his team. The Salk vaccine entered widespread use in the U.S. in 1955. Source: Wikipedia
Miss Liberty
The words “…give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses…” on the Statue of Liberty were written by Emma Lazarus, a Jew. Source: BuzzFeed
Blue Jeans
Levi Strauss, an immigrant from Germany, invented his blue jeans in 1873. Source: BuzzFeed
Start-Up Nation
Israel has the third highest rate of entrepreneurship in the world. It has the highest rate of entrepreneurship among women and people over 55 in the world. Source: BuzzFeed