stuff white people do: play the ethnicity card
simmons | July 17, 2015
Happy St. Patrick's Day. I guess
simmons | July 17, 2015
Happy St. Patrick's Day. I guess
simmons | July 17, 2015
Humanity's Folly Trinity Test: July 16, 1945, at5:29:45 a.m. (Mountain War Time) Trinity Site: Alamogordo Test Range, Jornada del Muerto (Journey of Death)desert.
simmons | July 16, 2015
The state Assembly on Monday unanimously approved a measure urging the University of California to condemn all forms of anti-Semitism. UC, meanwhile, said it will not tackle any possible new policies regarding anti-Jewish bias on its 10 campuses at next weeks meeting of the regents. Instead, officials said that the UC regents will discuss various forms of intolerance, including anti-Semitism, and issues of free speech at the following meeting, in September.
simmons | July 9, 2015
Power, Ignorance, and Anti-Semitism: Henry Ford and His War on Jews by Jonathan R.
simmons | July 9, 2015
The Deep Roots of Anti-Semitism in European Society*1 The resurgence of European anti-Semitism after the Holocaust suggests that it has deep roots in society. It has been fostered in a great variety of ways by so many, for such a long time, in all European countries that one might consider this form of hate and discrimination as inherent to European culture and a part of European "values." New European anti-Semitism often originates from a young age, which indicates that it is an anti-Semitism of the future rather than of the past. The European Union's attitude toward anti-Semitism is double-handed
simmons | July 9, 2015
Holocaust,Hebrew Shoah, Yiddish and Hebrew urban (Destruction), Smoke Pucker Gallerythe systematic state-sponsored killing of six million Jewish men, women, and children and millions of others by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during World War II. The Germans called this the final solution to the Jewish question
simmons | July 8, 2015
The end of the Middle Ages brought little change in Jews position in Europe, and the Catholic Reformation renewed anti-Jewish legislation and reinforced the system of ghettoized segregation in Roman Catholic countries. Jews remained subject to occasional massacres, such as those that occurred during wars between Eastern Orthodox Ukrainians and Roman Catholic Poles in the mid-17th century, which rivaled the worst massacres of Jews in the Middle Ages. Periodic persecutions of Jews in western Europe continued until the late 18th century, when the Enlightenment changed their position, at least in the West
simmons | July 3, 2015
LONDON A bitter row broke out at the end of a rally Friday in Golders Green, north London. Under the slogan Golders Green Together, the rally was called to demonstrate opposition to a proposed neo-Nazi gathering that had been planned for the neighborhood, which is nicknamed Londons Jewish heart
simmons | June 27, 2015
Anti-Semitism in Europe has increased to a level where many committed Jews ask themselves if they should emigrate. The same is true for a significant number of more assimilated Jews. Even more widespread across the Jewish community is the question of whether their children should remain in their native country.
simmons | June 21, 2015
anti-Semitism,hostility toward or discrimination against Jews as a religious or racial group. The term anti-Semitism was coined in 1879 by the German agitator Wilhelm Marr to designate the anti-Jewish campaigns under way in central Europe at that time