REPUBLICAN LEADERS NEED TO STOP THE REPLACEMENT THEORY LIE

If there’s anyone who still doesn’t know what it is, “The Great Replacement Theory” is the current iteration of long-standing antisemitic right wing conspiracy lie. Replacement Theory advocates claim that a diabolical group is secretly working to sneak in non-white immigrants to displace white people and take over America. That group, of course, is the […]

ONLY TRAITOROUS AMERICANS SUPPORT PUTIN’S INVASION

Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine Flag of independent Ukraine I can understand Americans don’t want war with Russia and they don’t want American troops in combat. I certainly feel that way, and there are other paths open to combat Putin. But what I cannot understand are those Americans who cheer on Putin and think we should […]

MAKING JEWISH STUDENTS UNCOMFORTABLE IS OKAY IN TENNESSEE

Yahoo News ran an article about a school board in Tennessee that offers a course teaching “the Bible,” which is of course a Christian version favored by fundamentalists and Evangelicals. If anyone doubts the real intent is to force this religious dogma down everyone’s throats, read what the teacher recommends students do when they encounter […]

NOW MORE THAN EVER, INSPIRATION FROM DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING

MLK Memorial, Washington, DC (Courtesy Tampa Bay Times). “Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.”

WSJ: Mandates Working in Austria

I’ve often said the WSJ separates its very conservative editorial stance from its reporting. WSJ journalists have as free if not freer hands than journalists working elsewhere. Their editorials regularly denounce mandates and restrictions as ineffective, but their independent reporters found otherwise. Let me get one thing straight: I wouldn’t want to see such measures […]

A TALE OF THREE MURDER VERDICTS

Ahmaud Aubrey, Courtesy of New York Times Courtesy The Independent George Floyd, Courtesy CBS News Between April and November of this year, Americans were fixated on three criminal murder trials: Derek Chauvin in Minneapolis, Kyle Rittenhouse in Kenosha Wisconsin, and the Georgia trial of three man accused of murdering African-American jogger Ahmaud Arbery. Issues of […]

THOUGHTS ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF KRISTALNACHT

    Photo by Stephen Shaiken Today is the 83d anniversary of the horrors of Kristalnacht, when the racist Nazi leader of Germany and his party incited violence and murder against those they considered disloyal and “the other.” The Nazis of course denied responsibility, claiming it was a spontaneous outburst by decent German citizens enraged that […]

SALLY ROONEY’S RACISM MASQUERADING AS PRINCIPLE: ANOTHER BDS-HOLE EXPOSED

Irish author Sally Rooney refuses to allow her most recent novel to be published in Hebrew. She recently clarified that her refusal was not based on antipathy to the Hebrew language, but rather on her antipathy to the Jewish people who speak it in the world’s only Jewish state. Not surprising, as Ms. Rooney is […]

WATCH DON WINSLOW’S SHORT VIDEO ON FLORIDA’S FAILURE TO STEM COVID

Don Winslow is a succesful author of mystery and thriller novels. He’s also a political activist. Mr. Winslow just released a short video that documents the horrors Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has visited upon his state; Winslow compares DeSantis’s failed anti-science COVID policies to the Vietnam War.  Click here to watch Florida’s Vietnam, by Don […]

THANK THE ORTHODOX RABBI WHO CALLED OUT ANTI-VAXXER CONGREGANT

The Times of Israel, an outstanding and objective English-language paper produced in Israel, reported how an Orthodox rabbi in Israel took to task an vaxxers congregant. My religion has always venerated science and medicine; one of our most venerated historical figures is the philosopher Moses Maimonides. Since the outbreak of COVID, religion in America has all […]