Matthew M. Hausman

Polar opposites agree on the Jews

Antisemitism is perhaps the last acceptable prejudice, embraced alike by both right and left, religious and secular, Christian and Muslim. Op-ed.

Are we witnessing a 'Persian Spring'? Will the media notice?

In covering the misnamed 'Arab Spring', later cynically dubbed the 'Arab Winter,' media provided sycophantic and uncritical analysis of Obama's moves, while treatment of the war with Iran is tinged by reluctance to say anything positive about Trump. Or Israel.

The spirit of Émile Zola stills cries J’Accuse

What happens when Gentiles with no personal stake are angered by anti-Israel agendas they perceive as antisemitic, and what happens when they belong to unions that use organizational resources to support political causes irrelevant to or opposed by rank and file. Opinion.

Is it better to identify as Democratic, Republican, or Jewish?

Our Sages could have been talking about today's abandonment of Jews and principles to gain the Muslim vote when they wrote: “Be cautious with the government, for they only bring a person close to them for their own needs."

Does right cancel left when it comes to Antisemitism in the USA?

What distinguishes Antisemitism's growth on the right from its proliferation on the left is the refusal of Jewish conservatives to rationalize or validate it or make excuses fellow conservatives who spew antisemitic venom. Opinion.

Will blood libels never cease?

Is there any difference between medieval blood libels inspired by the Church and fabricated claims of Israeli genocide disseminated by today’s useful idiots in the west? Not really.

Recognizing “Palestine,” rewarding terror, invalidating Israel

Palestinian Arabs have no more historical entitlement to ancestral Jewish land than Germany had to the Sudetenland in 1938. The difference between appeasement then and now is that the west’s faux moral virtue today is an expression of its own antisemitism. Opinion.

And what about antisemitism on the Christian Right?

An analysis of the sources of the antisemitism which unfortunately seems alive and well in some quarters of the Christian far right. Opinion.

Can Gentiles understand the missionary threat?

Jewish evangelism is an affront to the memory of all who were martyred in the name of Christianity - from the days of Constantine to the Holocaust and beyond. Opinion.

The political consequences of spiritual aimlessness

How is it that Jewish progressives often tolerate or rationalize the slogan “globalize the intifada,” particularly when it provides the soundtrack for violent demonstrations in which Jews are assaulted and their institutions vandalized and defiled? Opinion.

Is antisemitism worse on the right or left?

The radical-right has no influence on college campuses, where anti-Jewish violence is rampant; and it is Democrats who have failed to expel antisemitic, pro-Hamas elements from their party. Opinion.

Political Antisemitism exposed by Operation Rising Lion

There are two possible reasons for the persistence of shrill, reflexive denunciations of Israel by progressive politicians: naiveté or malice. Opinion.

What starts with the Jews doesn’t always end with the Jews

Because radicalized students and agitators have been able to target Jews with little or no pushback, it should come as no surprise that progressive activists have broadened their scope to harass and abuse others with differing ideologies or political affiliations. Opinion.

Maybe it’s time to boycott the boycotters

There is nothing impolitic about ostracizing countries, firms, products, and public figures who use their celebrity advocacy to empower enemies who seek to destroy Israel and exterminate her people. Let them all know what you think. Opinion.

Hate has no home here – except for antisemitism

Since the beginning of the current war with Hamas, the Progressive Left has harnessed imagery and 'linkage' to foment Jew-hatred at levels not seen since the Holocaust. Opinion.

For the last time, Progressivism is not Judaism

There is an inherent inconsistency between and Jewish values and radical progressivism, with its agenda of identity politics that falsely maligns Jews as oppressors, demonizes Israel, and elevates revisionist Palestinian Arab mythology over documented Jewish history. Opinion.

The mainstreaming of Islamic extremism

Progressives rationalize tenets that justify atrocities against Jews and destroying a sovereign democratic state, while they cheer Hamas for resisting an “occupation” that only exists in the minds of leftists, terrorists, and Palestinian Arab revisionists. Opinion.

Has the world learned anything in a year?

One year later, Israel finds herself fighting an existential war on seven fronts, while the wider world portrays her as an aggressor in need of taming. Op-ed.

Microaggressions are hateful unless used against the Jews

Progressives claim to oppose all forms of bigotry, but there is nobody more bigoted or oppressive than leftist progressive antisemites. Opinion.

When Christians sympathize to proselytize

Israel’s global isolation combined with critical educational deficiencies outside the Orthodox world have created an opening for missionaries to lob spiritual missiles from within the Jewish state while Hamas and Hezbollah shoot ballistic missiles from without. Opinion.

Inducing antisemitic evil in the soul

The misuse of language induces antisemitism, to paraphrase Socrates. Opinion.

The Age of Political Expediency

Political expediency incites antisemitism on campus and beyond

From quotas to DEI - the evolution of campus antisemitism

If anything, the fallout from DEI shows how antisemitism in academia has come full circle. Op-ed.

Does truth really matter anymore?

Antisemitism, hatred of Israel, and the perversion of truth in US politics, academia, and beyond. Opinion.

Jewish unity requires understanding Jewish identity

Many in leadership positions have embraced progressivism, globalism, wokeism, or a host of other “isms” as innately Jewish, though such ideologies are purely secular and often antithetical to authentic Judaism. Op-ed.

Why is it so difficult to define antisemitism?

Even among those who condemn it, there is little consensus about what constitutes antisemitism. Is it disdain for Jews as a faith community or as a people? Is it motivated by hatred of doctrine or ethnicity? Opinion.

The Islamophobia myth

Is there another people on earth against whom their murder, rape, and torture arouse enmity rather than empathy?

Jewish unity during times of crisis

For perhaps the first time since the Yom Kippur War , Jews from across the political spectrum were able to find common ground. Op-ed.

Teaching and celebrating terrorism on campus–a professor’s view

What is taught at US colleges is not higher education, it is academic fraud. In US law, terrorists are unlawful combatants. Read on. Op-ed.

Why progressives can’t simply condemn antisemitism

Democrats demand the suppression of speech they disagree with, but they cannot seem to unify against crass antisemitism. Op-ed.

Proportionality iin a terror war is antisemitism by another name

Support from those who recognize the threats faced by Israel is nice, but is not a prerequisite for the exercise of its strength.

Confronting antisemitism takes a strong Jewish identity

In order to defend themselves, Jews must know who they are and where they come from.  Op-ed.

A president who undermines Israel and Jews who support him

The term “useful idiots” describes those who should know better than to support causes that threaten them but do so anyway. Op-ed.

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Selective outrage in response to antisemitism

Use of antisemitic cliches by progressives against strongly identified Jews has been ignored by the mainstream Jewish establishment. Op-ed.

Respect for Jews who act like Jews

A moment of clarity on the way to the synagogue. Op-ed.

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The mainstreaming of American antisemitism

Not all hatreds are equal Bigotry in the US is steadily declining against most minorities but drastically increasing against Jews. Op-ed.

Distinguishing friend from foe in matters of faith

The role of the Assemblies of God evangelicals in creating and promoting “messianic Judaism” as conversionary subterfuge cannot be ignored.

Conflicting stereotypes in contemporary antisemitism

Different antisemitic stereotypes are applied by antisemites to Jews, Jews to antisemites, and Jews to themselves. Op-ed..

False hysteria over Israeli democracy

Progressive critics, take note: the US system at its core is not a pure democracy at all, but a constitutional republic. Op-ed.

My grandparents’ greatest gift was their history

They believed in both their history and destiny as Jews. Loss of personal and collective Jewish identity in the USA pained them. Op-ed.

Interfaith dialogue - a failure by definition

Non-Orthodox rabbis embrace the progressive ideals of their Christian counterparts, using modern terms for an ancient hatred. Op-ed.

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Jewish illiteracy in academia – view from the trenches

The erosion of Jewish literacy among today’s secular & non-Orthodox Jews, establishment organizations, academics, and intellectuals.

We must stop sweeping woke antisemitism under the rug

Ignorance may not be antisemitic, but crafty denial of history is, as is skewing Jewish values to bolster up false claims. Op-ed.

Political disinformation – 'stumbling block before the blind'

All Jews should be alarmed at the politicization of language to inflame partisan tensions, often culminating in antisemitic violence. Op-ed.

Antisemitism, the story of multilayered hatred

Jewish identity is religious, but also ethnic and bespeaks national existence going back thousands of years- all reasons for hatred. Op-ed.

Jewish assertiveness

Judaism has to be authentic, with values my father held dear, innately and organically Jewish, not progressive attempts to 'pass'.Op-ed.

The decline and fall of journalistic integrity

The decline of American journalism has been realized by reporters and editors acting as partisan foot soldiers instead of watchdogs. Op-ed.

What my mother taught me about charity

The humanitarian impulse was so ingrained over the generations that Jews became known for donating more than any other group. Op-ed.

Progressive politics don't define the "Righteous Gentile"

The Jewish concept of righteousness cannot be molded to fit a preoccupation with “social justice” that threatens the Jewish future.Op-ed.

Antisemitism in America: what would Émile Zola say?

Eerily, the hatred of French Jews during the Dreyfus Affair foreshadowed the antisemitic slogans that now fill the American landscape.Op-ed.

When antisemitism gets personal

The antisemitic incidents of my youth were not hatred hiding behind geopolitical rationalizations or academic pretensions. Op-ed.

Jewish apathy fuels missionary zeal

Israelis want to foster evangelical support, but often do not distinguish Christian missionaries from those who are not, Op-ed.

A crisis of Jewish leadership - politics trumps Jewish issues

Biden is never challenged by the media and a progressive Jewish establishment to whom liberal politics means more than Judaism. Op-ed.

Social media: Selective outrage

The internet has come to resemble medieval Europe during the time of the Black Death, when Jews were accused of poisoning wells. Op-ed.

The ethical decline of American journalism

Media demonization of Israel and whitewashing of progressive antisemitism was the harbinger of its descent into anti-Trump absurdity. Op-ed.

Jewish left cries antisemitism to silence critics

Strangely, many Jewish liberal progressive leftists have become inured and blinded to the Jew-hatred prevalent on the left. Opnion.

The antisemitism pandemic

Liberals who tolerate no bigotry from conservatives will excuse antisemitic leftists who call for the destruction of Israel. Op-ed.

Antisemitism is the politically correct hatred

Back to the politically correct Crusaders, Cossacks and Nazis. Like then, antisemitism is the only acceptable racism. Op-ed.

Is it anti-democratic to require MKs pledge loyalty to Israel?

Contrary to what critics might argue, pledges of loyalty are mandated by western political tradition. Opinion.

Wake Up, Jewish Left!