Anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism

Mondoweiss, May 24, 2011 I’m fed up with criticism of Israel being shouted down as anti-Semitic. Criticism of Israel is not anti-Semitic. Here’s one simple reason why: a majority of the Jewish people lives in the Diaspora. Just because this place, this strip of land, claims to represent us all doesn’t mean it does. And …

Islamophobia: the new anti-Semitism

The Guardian, August 26, 2010 Today the New York Times reported that a pastor in my hometown of Gainesville, Florida is planning to “commemorate” September 11 by publicly burning Korans. The photograph that accompanied the story showed the pastor, Terry Jones, standing in a field of grass behind signs that read “Islam is of the …