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Apr 27, 2021 · Defining anti-Semitism. Credit: Lobroart/Shutterstock. (April 27, 2021 / JNS) The American Jewish Committee released on Tuesday an updated and expanded edition of Translate Hate, the group’s widely used glossary of common anti-Semitic terms and tropes. According to AJC, the date of the 2021 edition’s release commemorates the second ...
May 6, 2020 · Earlier in 1947, “Crossfire” debuted, becoming the first major Hollywood feature to address contemporary anti-Semitism, going so far as to say the until-then-verboten word “Jew ...
May 1, 2024 · So we are left with words that might have been ironic euphemisms at first (“Semite” as a pseudo-polite substitute for “Jew”), but are now, with their hostile prefix, confusingly narrow in reference. Arabs may be Semites, but most anti-Semites dislike Jews, not Arabs. Most educated people now consider “Semite” obsolete and “Semitic ...
Apr 2, 2021 · The more well-known Crossfire was released in August to critical and commercial acclaim, with its story of a killer (Robert Ryan) an ex-GI motivated by rabid anti-Semitism who is eventually ...
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May 16, 2024 · The Anti-Defamation League says since then, antisemitic incidents in the U.S. are up 361% over the same period a year ago. ... But I would say - just add one thing. I think that when people use ...
Dec 10, 2021 · The term anti-Semitism was chosen by an anti-Jewish bigot to lend a sophisticated sheen to his hatred of Jews. The term has never popularly referred to Arabs or other “Semites,” which is why ...
tion, the murder victim in Crossfire is killed for being Jewish, not gay. Also striking is how often in The Brick Foxhole the bigots use the N-word, whereas in Crossfire no Black people appear and there is zero mention of anti-Black preju-dice. Confining the bigotry in Crossfire to anti-Semitism (and hatred of the Irish) was
