Washington, DC, USA — Encouraged by the vitriol of its strongman autocrat, Donald Trump, the capital city of the United States was besieged by thousands of rioters who attempted to stop the national assembly from counting ballots from the disputed recent election. Scores of Trump loyalists smashed the windows of…

In the decades after the riots which occurred in June and July of 1969 originating at New York’s Stonewall Inn, a mafia-run bar which catered to an LGBTQ+ clientele, a popular narrative took hold: the rioters were catalyzed to action not only by the police raid on the bar, but…

In 1886, Édouard Drumont, who can only be described as a professional antisemite, wrote in his antisemitic screed, La France juive (Jewish France) “All comes from the Jew; all returns to the Jew.” …

Throughout 1789 and 1790 George Washington was traveling across the nascent United States “to acquire knowledge of the face of the Country, the growth and Agriculture thereof, and the temper and disposition of the Inhabitants towards the new government.” In 1789 he skipped Rhode Island because they had yet to…

Twenty-five years ago, on April 6, 1994, the plane carrying Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana was shot down as it was preparing to land in Kigali, Rwanda. This assassination kicked off 100 days of unimaginable horror in the form of ethnic cleansing perpetrated on minority Tutsis by Hutus. This genocide resulted…

It is said that “an antisemite is someone who hates Jews more than is absolutely necessary.” This chestnut of dark Jewish humor (is there any other kind of authentic Jewish humor?) can perhaps help us better understand the significance of the antisemitic tweets written earlier this week by Minnesota Democratic…

Earlier this month Theatre Cedar Rapids opened a production of Martin Sherman’s 1979 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play, Bent, which tells the story of Max, a gay man living in Nazi Germany, and his persecution at the hands of the government, and society at large. …

As an academic I have become accustomed to a certain predictability accompanying the start of the fall semester; campus flowerbeds are tended, colleagues with grand plans for a fruitful summer lament their lack of productivity, and instances of overt anti-Semitism haunt campus. At my employer alone, four separate instances of anti-Semitic graffiti have been reported since the school year began. This is to say nothing of the slew of racist incidents at colleges and universities across the nation thi…