Sponsored by Aish.com: In 1977, a neo-Nazi group planned to march in Skokie, Illinois, in a largely Jewish neighborhood that was home to many Holocaust survivors. It was believed that the march would be disruptive, and the city refused to allow it. The American Civil Liberties Union came to the Nazis’ support, and in 1978 a high court upheld the Nazis’ right to march, on the grounds...
Who is Judah P. Benjamin?
I once wrote a response on Smooth Stone to a European’s anti-Israel rant and typed “Don’t you ever forget that we were writing the books that shaped your nation while your ancestors were still smearing themselves with feces and running naked after game in the wilds.” It was a great comeback that I had heard from someone whom I admired many years ago and I never forgot it...
Who was Leo Frank?
Why is the state of Georgia placing a historical marker at the site of the Leo Frank lynching? From the Georgia state website: Senate Resolution 1066 By: Senators Hill of the 32nd, Thompson of the 33rd, Rogers of the 21st, Stoner of the 6th and Wiles of the 37th A RESOLUTION Commemorating March 7, 2008, as the date of the placement of a Georgia historical marker at the site of the Leo Frank...
I must be doing something right
I must be doing something right. Yesterday, the politically depraved Daily Kos linked here and called this site a right-wing swampland. Today, the politically depraved Israel-bashing site PhilipWeiss [dot] org, edited by Philip Weiss who himself is a Jew, commanded his readers to praise anti Israel writers, like the Israel-bashing journalist Scott Wilson, who was dissected in my post here. Weiss...
Vandals damage Jewish cemetery in Chicago
Via Arcamax: Police say vandals caused at least $100,000 in damage when they defaced an estimated 57 gravestones in a Jewish cemetery in the Chicago area. Swastikas and anti-Semitic slurs were spray painted on tombstones inthe western section of the 72-acre Westlawn Cemetery in Norridge, Ill., where about 46,000 people in all are buried, the Chicago Tribune reported. One headstone inscribed with...
Police Investigating Possible Hanukkah-Related Attack
A “possible” hate crime, via WINS: Four Jewish subway riders who wished other people “Happy Hanukkah” were pelted with anti-Semitic remarks before being beaten, police and prosecutors said. The incident was being investigated as a possible hate crime. The four were on a train in lower Manhattan on Friday night, during the eight-day Jewish Festival of Lights, when they were...
Lobbyists or spies?
Biased prosecution of AIPAC officials. A lengthy, albeit must-read on the upcoming trial of the AIPAC officials, excerpted from The Wall Street Journal: Government insiders who engage in unauthorized leaks of classified information are violating their oaths, breaking the law, damaging national security and deserving of punishment. Sometimes those outside government who receive secrets and pass...
Jewish Professor Defiant in Face of Anti-Semitic Vandalism
Via Chabad: Columbia University professor Elizabeth Midlarsky responded to recent acts of anti-Semitism directed against her by upping the ante. With the help of a campus rabbi, she affixed a mezuzah to her office doorway. The combined act of biblical commandment, Jewish pride and defiance came at the end of a Monday morning press conference called by Columbia’s Teachers College Jewish...
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