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Samuel J. Aronson
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Apr 24, 2021

What’s Up With The Nazis in Israel?

Last weekend, Eretz Nehederet (A Wonderful Country), Israel’s version of Saturday Night Live, broadcast a skit lampooning newly elected Member of Knesset Itamar Ben Gvir. In response to the skit, MK Ben Gvir tweeted, “Until today, Eretz Nehederet caused me to chuckle… Today a red line was crossed: comparing me…

Israel

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What’s Up With The Nazis in Israel?
What’s Up With The Nazis in Israel?
Israel

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Jan 7, 2021

If this Didn’t Happen in America the Headline Would Be: Disputed Vote Plunges Former British Colony into Attempted Coup, Bloodshed

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…

Trump

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If this Didn’t Happen in American the Headline Woudl Be: Disputed Vote Plunges Former British…
If this Didn’t Happen in American the Headline Woudl Be: Disputed Vote Plunges Former British…
Trump

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Jun 11, 2020

Why We Should Compare the LGBTQ+ Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter and Why This Time is Different

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…

Stonewall

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Why We Should Compare the LGBTQ+ Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter and Why This Time is…
Why We Should Compare the LGBTQ+ Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter and Why This Time is…
Stonewall

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Apr 23, 2020

Everything That’s Old Is New Again

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.” …

Anti Semitism

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Everything That’s Old Is New Again
Everything That’s Old Is New Again
Anti Semitism

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Aug 22, 2019

A Tale of Two Presidents

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…

Politics

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A Tale of Two Presidents
A Tale of Two Presidents
Politics

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Jun 21, 2019

When is a Concentration Camp not a Concentration Camp?

On June 23, 1944, a delegation of Red Cross inspectors entered the Nazi ghetto/concentration camp of Theresienstadt. As a response to the reports of horrific conditions at Nazi concentration camps throughout Europe, including camps devoted to mass murder, this inspection was carried out to both dispel those “rumors” and appease…

Holocaust

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When is a Concentration Camp not a Concentration Camp?
When is a Concentration Camp not a Concentration Camp?
Holocaust

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Apr 12, 2019

All of Trump’s Horses and All of Trump’s Men

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…

Holocaust

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All of Trump’s Horses and All of Trump’s Men
All of Trump’s Horses and All of Trump’s Men
Holocaust

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Feb 13, 2019

The Sound of the Dog Whistle

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…

Anti Semitism

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The Sound of the Dog Whistle
The Sound of the Dog Whistle
Anti Semitism

6 min read


Mar 21, 2018

Bent and Broken

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. …

Holocaust

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Bent and Broken
Bent and Broken
Holocaust

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Sep 24, 2017

Pens, pencils, and swastikas.

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…

Anti Semitism

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Pens, pencils, and swastikas.
Pens, pencils, and swastikas.
Anti Semitism

1 min read

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Holocaust Historian and Georgetown University Associate Dean

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