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Opinion | Don’t Cheapen ‘Antisemitism’

JL;DR SUMMARY Dan Perry challenges the reflexive labeling of all hostility towards Jews as classic antisemitism, urging a nuanced understanding of different forms of anti-Jewish sentiment. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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TrumpHistorical ContextAliyahIdentity PoliticsArab Israeli ConflictMedia BiasCampus PoliticsEuropean Antisemitism

Places mentioned

Washington, Washington DC, United States
"We heard such sentiments after the shocking May 21 murders of two young Israeli Embassy staffers in Washington, DC."
Colorado, United States
"We heard it again after the horrifying attack in Colorado less than two weeks later, when a crazed Egyptian migrant attacked a group of liberal Jews with firebombs."
Iai, Iași, Romania
"My mother, as a young girl, barely survived the Iai pogrom of 1941."
Ploieti, Prahova, Romania
"My father endured forced labor in Ploieti."
Israel
"Especially but not only in Israel: This is why Jews must make aliyah."
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
"I was outraged to see university presidentsincluding the since-dismissed head of my own alma mater, the University of Pennsylvaniafumbling when asked if antisemitism should be condemned."
France
"In France, where antisemitism is said to be on the rise, many of the attackers are not white nationalists but angry Muslims."

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