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Sep 2, 2023, 7:12 PM

Anti-Zionist Professors Force Stalinism into the Academy

On August 24, Mondoweiss – an avowedly Jewish media outlet whose radical leanings make Jewish Currents looks like Israel Hayom – announced with great fanfare the official launch of the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism, founded by...

Apr 26, 2023, 8:19 AM

Israel at 75 and the Persistence of Jew-hatred

Let’s talk about the denial of Israel as the Jewish ethno-national homeland, which is rooted in three interconnected claims. (1) The Jews lost their state two thousand years ago. (2) Zionism is the product of ethnic nationalism, and, accordingly, it is...

Jan 6, 2023, 12:07 AM

Jewish Studies and Our Abandonment to Antisemites

“Should I worry about my child taking a Jewish studies course in college with Professor *****? They have signed numerous statements calling Israel a Jewish supremacist genocidal state. Is this what they will learn in class?” Ever since I launched...

Aug 28, 2022, 9:14 PM

Among the antisemites: A response to Peter Beinart

Peter Beinart speaking at Temple De Hirsch Sinai, Seattle, Washington, May 23, 2019 at an event sponsored by J Street (CC by Joe Mabel via Wikimedia)

Echoing dark conspiracy theories, Beinart has accused American Jewish organizations of smothering human rights around the globe

Aug 22, 2022, 10:45 AM

Bad history: A Jewish perspective on presentism

Woodcut from the Nuremberg Chronicle (1493) depicting Jews being burned alive for alleged host desecration in Deggendorf, Bavaria, in 1338, and in Sternberg, Mecklenburg, 1492. (Wikimedia Commons)

A fracas among historians over how to frame the past begs the question of what happens when a straight line is drawn from the Crusades to Auschwitz

Jul 12, 2022, 5:21 PM

Anne Frank: Survivor, White Privileged Settler Colonialist

Note: I originally wrote a variation of this satirical piece in 2021, but in light of the recent “debate” as to whether Anne Frank enjoyed "white privilege", it deserves a second look. Imagine if Anne Frank had survived the war....

Jul 20, 2021, 3:39 AM

The Un-Jews Are the Enforcers: A Response to Shaul Magid

Shaul Magid’s “The Enforcers”, published in Tablet on July 14, 2021, is a lengthy critique of Gil Troy and Natan Sharansky’s now-canonical censure of anti-Zionist Jews in the academy. Troy and Sharansky branded these Jewish studies professors as “un-Jews”,...

Jul 2, 2021, 2:34 AM

Ilhan Omar’s relentless crusade

Well Ilhan Omar has done it again. This time it was during an interview on CNN with Jake Tapper. Tapper asked her “‘why some of your fellow House Democrats, especially Jews,’ have found some of her past comments antisemitic.”...

Jun 12, 2021, 2:00 AM

Jewish + Woke = Joke: A Serious Post about Humor

How many BDSniks does it take to change a lightbulb? No you would have not heard this joke. Not because it isn’t funny – though depending on the punchline it may very well not be funny – but because mocking...

Jun 7, 2021, 1:07 AM

‘Look, I Don’t Like Hamas, But…’

Anti-Israel activism can be a confusing space for young impressionable college students who sincerely want to fight for social justice and be on the right side of history. Unfortunately, the anti-Zionist Scholar-Activists have mastered the art of talking points. They...

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About Me

Jarrod Tanny is an Associate Professor and Block Distinguished Scholar in Jewish History in the Department of History, University of North Carolina Wilmington. He is the author of City of Rogues and Schnorrers: Russia's Jews and the Myth of Old Odessa. He is also the founder of the Jewish Studies Zionist Network, https://www.jsznetwork.org/