The attempt to rehabilitate and whitewash the ADL as a conservative ally against anti-Semitism is a farce. The ADL has been a major advocate of leftist, even far-leftist, causes for decades.
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The Company the ADL Keeps
The Anti-Defamation League is taking the National Education Association to task for the teachers’ union’s purported anti-Semitism. But these two groups have more in common than not.
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How the ADL Invented the ‘Hate Crime,’ Leading to the Conviction of Innocent Men
A reexamination of the 2020 Ahmaud Arbery case.
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CAIR and the ADL: Partnership for Hate
At the tail end of the Russian Revolution, Lenin mocked some Mensheviks for protesting that they were not permitted to express their views in public: “Permit us to put you before a firing squad for saying that. Either you refrain from expressing your views, or, if you insist on expressing your political views publicly ....
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ADL’s Thought Police Helped Create the Current Climate of Anti-Semitism
How the Anti-Defamation League now embraces the ideology that they were originally established to combat.
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Defining Anti-Semitism
There was much discussion last autumn of the charge of “anti-Semitism” made against syndicated columnist and conservative spokesman Patrick Buchanan by New York Times columnist A.M. Rosenthal. What sparked the attack was a statement made by Buchanan on the television program The McLaughlin Group, in which he said, “There are only two groups that are...
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Gibson and His Enemies
For years, conservatives have wondered if there was any movie Hollywood would balk at showing. Blasphemy, incessant profanity, graphic sex, obscene violence—none of these has proved an obstacle to Hollywood, and numerous films containing some or all of these elements have enjoyed widespread critical acclaim. We have finally found out what sort of movie will...
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The Passion
Mel Gibson’s movie “on the last 12 hours of Jesus’ life” has stirred up all sorts of passions among interested observers the world over. The Passion, directed by Gibson and produced by Gibson’s film company, Icon Productions, is scheduled to be released sometime during the Lenten season of 2004. The goal of this ambitious project,...
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Dress Rehearsal for a Purge
I’ve seen neocon hit squads in action for decades; and as a one-time victim of these nasty pieces of work, I can vouch for their malice.
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Gilding the Funeral Lilies for Jesse Jackson
Those who now hail the late Rainbow PUSH leader as a “civil rights icon” engage in willful amnesia about his many unsavory activities and statements.
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The Zionist Politburo Cannot Purge Tucker Carlson
Neoconservatives are trying the same tactics that worked in the 1980s and '90s to try to cancel their enemies on the right. It won't work this time.
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Unexpected Effect
Joseph Lieberman’s selection as the first Orthodox Jew to run for vice president may have the unexpected effect of making it respectable again to maintain that the United States is a Christian country. Picking Lieberman as his running mate was the single most interesting thing Al Gore has done in his campaign for the White...
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Christian Nationalism Is a Political Fantasy
Without unity among Christians, there can be no Christian state.
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Glad To Be of Use
“Satiate with power, of fame and wealth possessed, A nation grows too glorious to be blest; Conspicuous made, she stands the mark of all. And foes join foes to triumph in her fall.” —George Crabbe, Thelibrau In the last year, Michael Lind has emerged as the new wunderkind of American political discussion. He was the...
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SPLC
So the Southern Poverty Law Center finally lost one. And a big one at that. The FBI has dropped the SPLC from its list of “partners” on the agency’s hate crimes page, The Daily Caller revealed last week. The agency dropped SPLC, an FBI spokesman told TheDC, because,“the Civil Rights program only provides links to...
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The New Blacklist
My days as a political analyst at MSNBC have come to an end. After 10 enjoyable years, I am departing, after an incessant clamor from the left that to permit me continued access to the microphones of MSNBC would be an outrage against decency, and dangerous. The calls for my firing began almost immediately...
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Shed No Tears for Mahmoud Khalil
For people like Mahmoud Khalil, animosity for Israel and Jews is the same thing as hatred for the West. They make no distinctions, and neither should we.
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The Anti-White Sentiment Underlying Left-Wing Anti-Semitism
The anti-white left views the struggle of Hamas as a continuation of the war against Western colonialism. They are never going to make common cause with Jews who defend the West.
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Monuments Matter
The impending removal of Moses Ezekiel’s magnificent monument from Arlington National Cemetery follows well-laid out guidelines for obliterating the non-woke past everywhere in the culturally revolutionized West.
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An Adolescent Attack on College Republicans
While it’s true that College Republican leaders need to refine their rhetoric when they take on the neocon establishment, the attacks on them by disingenuous critics exhibit even more jejune hysterics.
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Where’s Joe McCarthy When You Need Him?
Many Americans are so disappointed with the Bush administration that they are tempted to vote for John Kerry. Some Democrats who spent the past 80 years waiting for the Revolution to blow over may think theirs is still the party of “Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion,” as it was dubbed in 1884, but, by the 1960’s,...
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Where’s Joe McCarthy When You Need Him?
Many Americans are so disappointed with the Bush administration that they are tempted to vote for John Kerry. Some Democrats who spent the past 80 years waiting for the Revolution to blow over may think theirs is still the party of “Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion,” as it was dubbed in 1884, but, by the 1960’s,...
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Strictly From Hunger
In his autobiography, A Season For Justice, Morris Dees describes his 1967 epiphany in snowbound Cincinnati. Dees was, at the time, a millionaire 31-year-old lawyer, salesman, and publisher. While he had “sympathized with the Civil Rights Movement,” he “had not become actively involved.” By the time he arrived in Chicago, however, he was determined to...
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Battling Cyberhate
The conventional wisdom regarding the Internet appears to have changed practically overnight. Once championed as a wonderful Information-Age tool to “empower the individual,” the net is now more likely to be denounced as an iniquitous network of right-wing conspiracy theorists and former Luftwaffe pilots. I would be the last person to peddle a gospel of...
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The Ministry of Fear—July 2004
PERSPECTIVE Hatemongers by Thomas Fleming Stopping our ears. VIEWS CAIR and the ADL: Partnership for Hate by Srdja Trifkovic What becomes of the race opportunists? What Kind of Freedom? by Doug Bandow Picking and choosing liberties to defend. The Myth of an Antiglobalist Left by William R. Hawkins Marx, waiting in the wings. NEWS Strictly From Hunger by Kevin Michael Grace The Morris Dees ...
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On Chronicles and Race
It is with sadness that I must inform you that I will not be renewing my subscription . . . the next time around. I was severely disappointed in the Thomas Fleming article “X2K: aut Christus aut nihil,” in the December 1999 issue. This is the second major disappointment I have experienced in an article...
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Why Jews Aren’t Joining Forces With the American Right
American Jews may be at unease with the growing acceptance of literal jihadis as a loyal Democratic client base, but they are certainly not turning to the right.
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Mel and His Critics
Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ opens in theaters on Ash Wednesday (February 25). It is too early to tell whether Gibson has achieved his aim of creating an artistically compelling account of the last 12 hours of Christ’s life that is also faithful to the Gospels, although those who have previewed the film...
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A Major Setback Looms in Florida
Florida’s Board of Governors must reject radical DEI thought leader Santa Ono as president of the University of Florida.
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Gibson’s Passion
Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ opens in theaters on Ash Wednesday (February 25). It is too early to tell whether Gibson has achieved his aim of creating an artistically compelling account of the last 12 hours of Christ’s life that is also faithful to the Gospels, although those who have previewed the film...
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Why We Must Discuss Black Crime
The left, by forcing their strange racial obsessions on the rest of us, have invited heightened scrutiny of the group they refuse to hold accountable for their high rates of crime.
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The Neocon Wooing of Josh Shapiro
Understanding the motivations behind the sudden urge of neoconservatives to fluff Democratic Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro.
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A Nation without Community Is a Nation without Value
Communal Americanism needs to make a return for the nation to survive. There is no other remedy.
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Christophobia
In the December 1999 issue of Commentary, Irving Stelzer took Peter Brimelow to task for wanting to restrict immigration. Setting the facts aside, Stelzer accuses Brimelow of being a fan of the “old-line WASP population” that had produced perk-laden corpocrats who so mismanaged America’s major companies as almost to bring the economy to ruin before...
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Polonophobia
Since the fall of the Soviet Empire, no former Soviet captive nation has fared as badly as Poland in the American press. In the last year alone, unqualified denunciations of alleged Polish atrocities against Jews, most open to question, have been put into the New York Times, Washington Post, International Herald Tribune, Toronto Star, Toronto...
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Grassroots Extremism
“Extremist” is a word that may conjure up images of hooded Klansmen crowded around a burning cross or of Black Panther separatists or kooky 60’s “revolutionaries.” Or perhaps images of Hitler, Stalin, or Mao come to mind. There is a supposition that those who are commonly called “extremists” are unreasonable, irrational, perhaps crazy, and quite...
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Dishonesty of the Media Establishment
It is not as outraged husband that O.J. Simpson is to be defended but as a black who killed a white. His status is defined both by his celebrity and by his race.
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This and That From Here and There
It’s been a while since my last roundup of regional news, so some of these items have a little age on them, but you probably missed them anyway, so they’ll be news to you, right? An implicit theme (not implicit now that I’ve mentioned it, I guess) is that Southern culture is still kicking, even...
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A Question of Power
Movies come and movies go, but probably never in the history of American film has more controversy greeted any movie than that which met Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ before and after its debut on Ash Wednesday. We all know what the controversy was about. It had nothing to do with the qualities...
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Hate Speech for Thee, But Not for Me
South African courts—and western media—have ripped the mask off hate speech laws. Hate speech is not only acceptable but encouraged for anyone with eternal victim status.
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Hatemongers
What do you call a man who loves his country but is not so enthusiastic about the government that confiscates half of his income? Who takes care of his own family but is not sure why, through tax policies and affirmative action, he is also supposed to take care of the children of other people...
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The Sacralization of Black Lives Matter
Perhaps I’m going crazy, but I thought I just heard NBC News and other respected information sources report that the recent burning of two Black Lives Matter (BLM) signs is being investigated as “potential hate crimes” by the Washington, D.C. police. Apparently these alleged hate crimes occurred as BLM and its sister organization (or rather,...
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Kelly Loeffler’s Missed Opportunity in the Georgia Run-off Debate
On the evening of Dec. 6, I watched the debate between Sen. Kelly Loeffler and the Reverend Raphael Warnock, who are running against each other for a U.S. Senate seat from Georgia with the runoff election scheduled for Jan. 5. As a non-leftist I am anxious to see the Georgia Senate seats now up for...
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America First Controversy
Donald Trump’s foreign policy speech last Wednesday deserves at least a solid B+ and you can read my take on it in the June issue of Chronicles. It offered an eloquent argument for offensive realism, based on the fact that the international system—composed of sovereign nation-states pursuing their interests—is still essentially competitive and Hobbesian. Trump...
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Holiday Ham and Easter Bunnies
With the upcoming Easter in mind, I could not help but to share a Twitter observation reposted by Scott Richert: “Advertisers now call an Easter ham a “holiday ham”. You know, so as not to offend all those celebrating Passover with a ham” Funny? Of course. Sad? Even more so. As someone who actually observes...
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Brown Revolution in Ukraine: The Neo-Nazis’ Charm Offensive
The radical organization “Right Sector” is the hidden force behind the armed overthrow of Viktor Yanukovych. Even the openly neo-nazi political party “Svoboda” led by the urologist-turned-aspiring fuhrer Oleh Tyahnybok seems almost respectable, compared to the militant thugs of “Right Sector”. That has not prevented such diverse media outlets as New York Times and Steve...
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Managing the Quagmire
Twenty years ago Leon Hadar published Quagmire: America in the Middle East, an eloquent plea for U.S. disengagement from the region. He warned that American leaders had neither the knowledge nor the power to manage long-standing disputes involving faraway people of whom we know little. Attempts at meddling, he wrote, invariably made the various actors...
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The Call of Blood
We Americans pride ourselves on being a nation of rootless individuals, cut off from the history that chained Old Europe to a cycle of wars and revolutions and bound to one another not by ties of blood and soil but only by the bloodless abstraction of self-evident truths. Rooted in no one place, our corporate...
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Privilege Displaces Equality
None of us growing up in Atlanta in the 1940’s were under the delusion that we were equal. We were aware of a myriad of differences that had nothing to do with race or gender. Some were better football players. Others were better baseball players. Some could run faster. Others were more witty, or better...
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Mending Wall
The Jewish population I encountered during my recent month-long tour of Israel was markedly different from anything I had expected. If there are Israeli counterparts to Abe Foxman and Midge Decter, I didn’t meet them. The vast majority of Jews I did meet were Moroccan and Levantine, while most of the security police in the...