Tikvah
Subscribe
MosaicImage of Mosaic
Editor's Pick

February 15, 2021

A New Book Explores the Paradox of Left-Wing Anti-Semitism, but Doesn’t Go Far Enough

The Jews Don’t Count.

In The Jews Don’t Count, the British comedian, novelist, and television personality David Baddiel reacts to his uncomfortable discovery that there are many who will fight vigorously against the faintest expression of bigotry of just about any kind, but will ignore or defend anti-Semitism. Nick Cohen, reviewing the book, takes the case of the acclaimed American novelist Alice Walker—who has written vile anti-Semitic poems and endorsed the most paranoiac fantasies about Jewish world domination—as an example:

Subscribe to Continue Reading

Get the best Jewish ideas and conversations. Subscribe to Tikvah Ideas All Access for $12/month

Login or Subscribe
Save

February 15, 2021

  1. The Right Way for the Biden Administration to Help the Palestinians

    Building on the Abraham Accords.

  2. A New Book Explores the Paradox of Left-Wing Anti-Semitism, but Doesn’t Go Far Enough

    The Jews Don’t Count.

  3. Bashar al-Assad’s Not-So-Secular Regime

    A mistake the Syrian government is happy not to correct.

  4. Remembering the Great Rabbi and Psychiatrist Abraham Twerski

    And a 1959 profile in Time magazine.

  5. How Tennis Opened Its Courts to Jews

    Diego Schwartzmann and his predecessors.