Explaining the Holocaust paradox
America’s awareness of the Holocaust only started to come to the fore in the 1970s with the emergence of a broader victim culture
Daniel Ben-Ami
from London / 310 postsI am responsible for the Radicalism of Fools site. My current focus is anti-Semitism but I have specialised in several different topics as a journalist. Email me at daniel@radicalismoffools.com
The battle against anti-Zionism
Anti-Zionism is a form of anti-Semitism
The counter-Holocaust industry
Norman Finkelstein’s work is part of a sustained anti-Zionist offensive to distort the memory of the Holocaust
The truth about Nuremberg
At the Nuremberg war crimes trials the victorious Allies expressed little concern about the fate of the Jews under the Nazis
The fallacy of the slipping mask
It is not possible to defeat anti-Semitism by highlighting its crudest exponents
Anti-Semitism in its broader context
A new book by one of Israel’s most high profile British supporters is a worthy but ultimately flawed attempt to put the rise of anti-Semitism into a broader political context.
Article in Compact magazine
I have had an article published in Compact magazine. The focus is on the substantial overlap between Islamism and leftism. The piece...
Quarterly Review of anti-Semitism
Once again the scale of the worldwide discussion of Israel and related matters – most notably anti-Semitism – makes no sense when judged by standard criteria. Israel is by...
On Holocaust relativisation
The notes for my introduction to the Battle of Ideas session on the relativisation of the Holocaust
The enemy within
The anti-Israel movement is cynically putting Jewish anti-Zionist activists to the fore while dismissing the majority Jewish view
What drives anti-Semitism
The main driving force of contemporary anti-Semitism is western identity politics which in turn is legitimated by a sprinkling of Islamism
Anti-Zionism is not a metaphor
The drive to banish public life of Israeli influence leads inexorably to the murder of Jews
Sowing confusion over Christian Zionism
Anti-Zionists cynically weaponise the phenomenon of Christian Zionism to muddy the debate about Israel and anti-Semitism
The canary in the coal mine
Anti-Semitism is the 'canary in the coal mine' because at troubled times Jews often come to symbolise the supposed evils of modernity