Professor Elizabeth Midlarsky had her office at New York's Columbia Teachers' College vandalized with Nazi swastikas this week. She also found the Jewish slur "Yid" painted on her office door. Midlarsky, who has applied her training as a clinical psychologist to the field of ...read more
It's tempting to call my in-laws to see if they feel the slightest bit of shame over their continued support for Trump but, frankly, I seriously doubt it. That would require them to understand their culpability....To continue reading this article, please go here. As a Banter ...read more
Last week, Trump's Nazi followers decided that it was time to take their harassment of Jews off the internet and into the real world. Andrew Anglin of the "Daily Stormer" told his white nationalist followers to start "trolling" the Jews of Whitefish, Montana in person. We wrote ...read more
By Ben Cohen: Whatever you might think about the conflict between Israel and Palestine, there are certain lines of argument that are completely unacceptable regardless of which side you are supportive of. Mitt Romney has weighed in on the debate with typical insensitivity, and ...read more
By Ben Cohen: The issue of race relations is never far from the media or public debate in America. The latest news from the tragic Trayvon Martin case (a revelation that the police initially seriously doubted shooter George Zimmerman's account of events) and the controversial ...read more
Andrew Sullivan dismantles Newt Gingrich's incredibly offensive and racist remarks that Palestinians are an 'invented' people: It's worth noting that one of the most authoritative geneticists in studying the people of the Mediterranean, Antonio Arnaiz-Villena, has found no ...read more
Cornel West's tirade against Obama has irked much of the liberal media, largely it seems because West framed much of his critique in terms of race. Writes Joan Walsh of Salon.com: The most tragic thing, to me, about West's meltdown was the way he tried to frame it as a ...read more