Mel Gibson Is Done With Apologizing, Calls Reporter an A-Hole

Staff / Truthdig Feb 3, 2010 Is it unfair to bring up Mel Gibson's troubles? After all, it's been more than three years since the superstar allegedly blamed those "fucking Jews" for "all the wars in the world." Gibson loses it in this interview, saying "I've done all the necessary mea culpas." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Milton Viorst on the Emancipation of Europe’s Jews

BLANK Jan 22, 2010 A new book by Michael Goldfarb grapples with the fate of a people caught between hope and history. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Limbaugh Wonders Why Jews, AKA ‘Money People,’ Aren’t Fed Up With Obama

Staff / Truthdig Jan 21, 2010 "To some people, banker is codeword for Jewish," explains Rush, who wants to know whether these "money people" have any "buyer's remorse" about President Obama. After all, he says, taxes are "anathema to Jewish people." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

The Anti-Semite

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How the Anti-Semites of Hezbollah Have Sent Anne Frank Back Into Hiding

Robert Fisk / Truthdig Dec 5, 2009 "This young woman who upsets people " was the headline in Lebanon's L'Orient Littáraire yesterday The teenager was Anne Frank, who died of typhoid at Bergen-Belsen in 1945 after being betrayed to the Nazi authorities, along with her family, in her Amsterdam "safe house"The Jewish Holocaust is not a subject which Arabs have learned to live with. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Israel Furious at Organ Harvesting Accusation

Staff / Truthdig Aug 24, 2009 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu likened a report in a Swedish tabloid that said Israeli troops harvested organs from dead Palestinians to "medieval libels that Jews killed Christian children for their blood." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

How Many Crazed Gunmen Is it Going to Take?

Staff / Truthdig Jun 11, 2009 An 88-year-old anti-Semite shot up the U.S. Holocaust Museum on Wednesday, killing a security guard in the process. President Obama said in response "we must remain vigilant against anti-Semitism." Sure, but how about getting a little vigilant against guns? Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the Incredible Shrinking Audience

Staff / Truthdig Apr 21, 2009 Clearly, several dozen delegates at the United Nations anti-racism conference in Geneva, Switzerland, disagreed with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's assessment of Israel as a "racist government" on Monday. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Leave World War II Out of Gaza

Robert Fisk / Truthdig Jan 17, 2009 I have long raged against any comparisons with the Second World War -- whether of the Arafat-is-Hitler variety once deployed by Menachem Begin or of the anti-war- demonstrators-are- 1930s-appeasers, most recently used by George Bush and Lord Blair of Kut al-Amara. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Ahmadinejad’s Christmas Speech Raises Ruckus

Staff / Truthdig Dec 26, 2008 Britain's Channel 4 has a tradition of featuring an alternative Christmas message as a kind of counterpoint to Queen Elizabeth's customary speech, and this year's speaker -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -- is sparking outrage. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

McCain Chastises Supporters, Again

Staff / Truthdig Feb 28, 2008 About a day after John McCain expressed his disapproval over the insensitive comments of a supporter, the candidate was once again forced to disown ignoble behavior, this time from an official part of his party. The Tennessee Republican Party issued a press release that featured a photo of Barack Obama wearing traditional African clothing, cited his middle name (Hussein) and attempted to portray him as an anti-Semite. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Conservatives Defend Gibson?s Bigotry

Staff / Truthdig Aug 3, 2006 Mel Gibson?s recent bout of anti-Semitism might rightly be described as indefensible, yet somehow some conservative commentators have decided to defend the actor?s bigoted outburst. One conservative cast Gibson as the victim of ?the vile and anti-human Political Correctness cult,? while David Horowitz blamed a ?hatred of Christians? for America?s interest in the story. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )