It’s amazing how quickly subject of aggressive teritorial expansion, which affects mostly certain individuals who did nothing wrong, is auto-justified by linking them to terrorism. Similarily, any mention of Zionsm is being auto-linked with anti-Semitism. That alone creates a quite successful strategy: guilt by association. Coincidetally, all…

CNA Week 11

Trump’s Campaign Manager to Appear in Court on Battery Charges

After Trump gave a speech at his golf club in Jupiter, Florida, his campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, was reported to have grabbed the arm of a reporter in a violent manner…

Where anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism do and do not meet

The last couple of weeks have been very intense on the campus of Brown University, especially for Jewish students. It began with a Students for Justice in Palestine petition against a Jewish group, Moral Voices, which is affiliated…

On Anti-Semitism and Recent Events at Brown University

[For context: “Janet Mock, trans activist, cancels lecture at Brown RISD Hillel”.]

Look, I don’t even know where to begin. Ever since the petition started circulating, I’ve told myself that I wouldn’t write…

Why I Hate Metropolis

The other night I saw Fritz Lang’s ‘Metropolis’ for the first time. A cinema in Berlin showed the 1927 sci-fi movie on a huge screen and the theatre was packed with hundreds of people celebrating what they call one of the most important silent films, the grandfather of sci-fi, a technical…

Is This Fear and Anxiety What My Grandparents Felt?

I’m a second generation American Jew. My father was the last of five children and the only one born in the United States. My grandparents fled Hungary in the 1920’s as the Russian pogroms spread across eastern Europe. Had they stayed in…