International Holocaust Remembrance Day was last Friday. One thing has become evident as we pause to reflect: Our collective memories appear far too short.
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The Shomer: The Canary in the Coal Mine is Dead as a Doornail
As of now, nearly 40,000 homes and businesses in and around Moore County, NC, are without power after someone deliberately targeted two electric substations, causing millions of dollars in damages using gunfire to destroy equipment, according to reports.
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The Shomer: Hitler and the Nazi Party Were Fascists. Full Stop.
Holocaust revision is antisemitism.
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The Shomer: Kanye’s Antisemitic Rants Are Unhinged, But Tucker Carlson’s Editing is Unconscionable
This is a follow-up to the column published yesterday, The Shomer: Ye, Though I Walk Through the Valley of Death-Con 3. For clarity’s sake, it’s a good idea to start there and then read this.
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The Shomer: Ye, Though I Walk Through the Valley of Death-Con 3
(UPDATE: Since this column was first published, Vice.com released a trove of clips from Tucker Carlson’s interview which never made it to air, and it’s added a significant wrinkle to developments. For more on that, read the subsequent column to this one, The Shomer: Kanye’s Antisemitic Rants Are Unhinged, But Tucker Carlson’s Editing is Unconscionable)
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The Shomer: From Charlie & The Chocolate Factory to Pink Floyd — The Antisemitism of The Artist
Over the last several years a cultural shift has the United States citizenry reevaluating our relationships with those we’ve canonized as heroes due to their contributions to the institutions we so deeply revere. Some have taken to referring to it as “woke” or “cancel” or “consequence” culture, and depending on your stance, it’s either something to be demonized or lauded. But for Jews, this is nothing new.
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The Shomer: For Jews in Prison, There is No Safety in Numbers
60 Days In is an A&E docuseries covering prison and jail life from the perspective of inmates. The series’ first season in 2016 followed seven volunteers who went undercover for 60 days as inmates in the Clark County Jail in Jeffersonville, Indiana. The focus was exposing ongoing illegal activities within the jail confines that correctional officials missed. I recently watched a few episodes, and one thing struck me as I watched a supercut of clips from this series — I didn’t see any Jews.
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The Shomer: Neo-Nazi Arrest Reveals Rape Plot to Force White Pregnancies
Intersectionality.
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The Shomer — Redpilled in Aspen: Chabad JCC Hosts Election Fraud Attorney
In his play The Tempest, William Shakespeare wrote, “Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.” Sometime in the 19th Century, the quote morphed into the proverb, “Politics makes strange bedfellows.”It strikes me a deeply apropos in some cases when it comes to today’s GOP and how politically conservative Jews seem okay with their proximity to the far-right. This isn’t to say the left is free from antisemitism — far from it. It’s the paradox of being a Jew in the United States today; we see antisemitism across the political spectrum.