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Jews and the Left by Philip Mendes: Review — Part 1

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Jews and the Left: The Rise and Fall of a Political Alliance Philip Mendes Melbourne, Victoria: Palgrave MacMillian, 2014 Introduction In 2018 I reviewed Alain Brossat and Sylvie Klingberg’s Revolutionary Yiddishland: A History of Jewish Radicalism, a shameless apologia for (and indeed glorification of) Jewish involvement in radical political movements in the early- to mid-twentieth […]

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On Yellow Vests and Monsters

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    “Any appeal to the white working class, as in today’s alt-right populism, betrays class struggle.” Slavoj Žižek, The Philosophical Salon, 2019. Commenting on the political aspects of Shelley’s life and poetry, Virginia Woolf asserted in 1927 that the poet’s England “has already receded, and his fight, valiant though it is, seems to be […]

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A Reply to Jordan Peterson

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Celebrity intellectual Jordan Peterson has written a blog post, “’On the So-Called ‘Jewish Question’,” the inner quotes indicating he doesn’t think this is a real issue—something that only “reactionary conspiracy theorists” would propose.  His blog includes a link to Nathan Cofnas’s criticism of The Culture of Critique. No links to my replies—which may provide a […]

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Towards ‘Kosher Nationalism”? (4): The Rise of Éric Zemmour and the Case of France

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Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 The Jewish dilemma on immigration is perhaps most apparent in France. The French situation is unique in many respects: The largest Jewish population outside of Israel and the United States (about 600,000 people or 1% of the population). A staggering Jewish intellectual/cultural presence, perhaps more influential politically than in […]

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Towards ‘Kosher Nationalism’? (2): On Jewish Intellectual Power Struggles

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Part 1. I do not think there is a conscious Jewish endgame[1] but I would like to suggest a pattern, whether caused by Jewish culture, social position (especially, being a minority) or psychological predisposition, in the behavior of many Jewish intellectuals and their power struggles. It goes something like this: The young intellectual settles into […]