David Bernstein

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Aug 29, 2023, 12:46 PM

American academics take a page out of the Soviet anti-Zionist playbook

Coming to a campus near you: a brazen effort to create and legitimize a new field called 'Critical Zionist Studies'

Dec 29, 2022, 3:07 PM

How American Jews should navigate Israel’s new political reality

Likud leader MK Benjamin Netanyahu with Otzma Yehudit party head Itamar Ben Gvir at a vote in the assembly hall of the Knesset on December 28, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

3 key ways to move forward in your relationship with the Jewish state, even if you find its new leadership and their promises distasteful

Oct 10, 2022, 9:50 PM

Why America Needs both Columbus Day and Indigenous People Day

Today is both Columbus Day and Indigenous People Day, and I’m marking both. One would think these narratives of America’s origin story are mutually exclusive. Indeed, most Americans, to the degree they pay attention at all, probably think one...

Jun 23, 2022, 11:24 PM

Is Jennifer Bilek’s article in Tablet antisemitic and transphobic?

Last week, Tablet magazine published a bombshell of an article by Jennifer Bilek, “The Billionaire Family Pushing Synthetic Sex Identities (SSI): The wealthy, powerful, and sometimes very weird Pritzker cousins have set their sights on a new God-like goal:...

Jan 26, 2022, 6:01 PM

Why We Need a New Anti-Racism

The other day, a professor friend called, his voice shaky: I just had a disturbing experience in class. We were discussing race and racism, and a white student asked if it’s possible for a white person to experience racism. I...

Dec 24, 2021, 5:09 PM

Two Studies Highlight Dangers for Jews of Critical Race Ideologies

For the past seven months, the Jewish Institute for Liberal Values has been calling attention to how critical race ideologies inflame antisemitism and endanger Jews. Two new studies hammer the point home. The REUT Group, an Israeli based “think and...

Nov 20, 2021, 12:51 AM

Jewish Organizations Should Not Condemn the Rittenhouse Trial Verdict

It didn’t take long for a progressive Jewish organization--Bend the Arc--to condemn the Rittenhouse verdict. “This verdict,” they assert, “is yet more proof of how the system is designed to protect racist vigilantism.” I suspect they had their statement...

Oct 17, 2021, 6:56 AM

On teaching ‘opposing’ views of the Holocaust and systemic racism

Educators must contextualize the facts surrounding historical events so students can wrestle with alternative perspectives on why these events occurred

Sep 13, 2021, 5:12 PM

What California tells us about the New Wave of Antisemitism on the Left

What happens in California never stays in California. If you want to see what large swaths of the country, for better or worse, might look like in a year or two, look at what’s happening in California today. On...

Aug 18, 2021, 3:34 PM

You may be supporting an ideology that fuels antisemitism

Mayim Bialik entertains troops during a USO performance, Camp Bondsteel, Kosovo, July 4, 2019 (US Army National Guard photo by Sgt. 1st Class Jim Greenhill)

It’s time for Progressive Zionists who align themselves with proponents of critical social justice theory to face reality: they just aren’t that into you

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About Me

David Bernstein is the founder of the Jewish Institute for Liberal Values and is a former CEO of Jewish advocacy organizations. He is author of the Woke Antisemitism: How a Progressive Ideology Harms Jews (JILV.org/book). Follow him on Twitter @DavidLBernstein

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