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…
In late July, President Joe Biden nominated Lipstadt to be the United States Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating anti-Semitism.
Abdel Rahim al-Talib Muhammad, a 14-year-old chess player from Mauritania…
In a shocking display of disrespect toward the memory of the six million Jews murdered by the Nazis, two German police officers were photographed doing pushups on the concrete block monument of the Berlin Holocaust Memorial. The Berlin Police Headquarters issued an apology for the incident, and Berlin police chief Barbara Selwick said that “the…
In an interview with Israeli journalist Barak Ravid — who wrote a book about Donald Trump’s policies vis-à-vis Israel — the former president…
To learn about these and many more AmazingJews, watch a compilation put together by JewOfTheWeek.net in 2015 and posted on YouTube.