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Happy Passover, the holiday when American Jews attempt to pass over an Ivy League campus and British Jews attempt to pass over a Central London thoroughfare. Surveying the scene at Columbia, Powerline's Scott Johnson posts a picture of Nazis preventing Jews from entering the University of Vienna in 1938. We are enjoined not to go full Godwin's this early in the column, but the photograph prompted this thought: A century ago, the Jews of Germany were the most assimilated in Europe. They had prospered under the Kaiser, and seemed set to do even better in the Weimar Republic. They were...

Even after this news story: McMahon Campaign Hits Grimm For Taking "Jewish Money" where Democrat McMahon's campaign compiled a list of Jewish donors to his Republican challenger and provided it to the Politicker, it seems Nick Baumann, number 9 on the Journolist and Mother Jones journalist, is really interested in looking for the existence of anti-semitism in the GOP. In his latest article, Baumann uses posts from commenters on the RNC's Facebook page as his evidence: The GOP's Facebook Anti-Semites Israel is responsible for 9/11, Al Qaeda is "100% state sponsored by Zionist Jews," and White House chief of staff...

The news came out around the same time as the news that Dan Rather faked a report about President Bush. When the news first broke, I was waiting for someone in the blogisphere to prove the charges fake, just as they did with the Rather story. But that follow-up report never happened. As time went by it became clearer that there was a real live actual ongoing investigation of some AIPAC lobbyists taking classified information to give to Israel. I refused to believe it, with Pollard in jail for so long, how could Israel be so stupid once again. The...

Hizballah Entertainment News, July 31 Iranian Embassy sub-sub-basement, Beirut, Lebanon Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah today released a statement exclusively to HEN lauding American filmstar, theologian and noted anti-Zionist historian Mel Gibson for his latest act of heroism. The Sheik, admitting he had always prefered George Clooney until now, was moved to speak out in support of the hunky infidel actor after learning via website TMZ of Mr. Gibson's wise and true statements, and the subsequent effort of the totalitarian American police state to cover them up and persecute the one-time director of the popular film known on bootleg Hizballah video-cassettes...

There is a well-worn platitude that we have all heard many times before: it is perfectly legitimate to criticize the actions and policies of the state of Israel or the doctrines of Zionism without necessarily being motivated by anti-Semitism. The fact that this has been repeated ad nauseam does not detract from its truth. Not only do I accept it, but I would even take it a step further with another formulation that may perhaps evoke surprise if not shock: it is perfectly possible to hate and even to persecute Jews without necessarily being anti-Semitic.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - European governments are failing to accurately report or effectively combat an alarming rise in anti-Jewish violence in their countries, according to a report by the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights. "European governments are inadequately reporting anti-Semitic violence, with some providing little public information on even the most serious hate crimes," said Michael Posner, executive director of the independent New York-based group. "Yet timely, accurate, and public information on crimes of racist violence are essential for effective action to suppress such violence," he said on Tuesday. The report, "Fire and Broken Glass: The Rise of Anti-Semitism in Europe,"...