Yesterday at The Lede, J. David Goodman reported on a Swedish “social media experiment” gone questionably awry.
Posts Tagged ‘anti-Semitism’
July 18th, 2011
The “Axis of Antisemitism”
posted by Amanda KaplanJonathan Rauch responds to James Kirchick’s Tablet Magazine article on the shuttering of Yale’s Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Anti-Semitism.
June 1st, 2011
Beyond denial
posted by Justin Neuman
For a brief moment in 2007, news of a hit Iranian television series, whose Farsi title was translated variously as Zero Degree Turn or Zero Point Orbit, proliferated across the print and digital mediascapes of the Anglophone world. The series, created by Iranian director Hassan Fathi at great expense and broadcast in a thirty-episode season on the flagship state television station IRIB1, revolves around a Romeo and Juliet plot of illicit romance, with a distinctive twist: while the proverbial Romeo is one Habib Parsa (played by Iranian hearthrob Shahab Hosseini), a Muslim Iranian pursuing his studies in France, his Juliet is none other than a Jewish classmate, Sarah Astrok (played by the French actress Nathalie Matti), with whom he falls in love.
December 22nd, 2009
Anti-Semitism in Lake Wobegon
posted by John SchmalzbauerFor thirty-five years, Garrison Keillor has brought listeners into the village of Lake Wobegon, Minnesota, the “town that time forgot, that the decades cannot improve.” An idealized setting for Keillor’s storytelling, it has, until recently, been innocent of overt prejudice. Last Wednesday, Keillor ruined all that in an anti-Semitic column, “Nonbelievers, please leave Christmas alone.”
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