How to Fight Anti-Semitism

<p><b>'This acutely argued book will engender a thousand conversations' Cynthia Ozick</b><br><br><b>The prescient <i>New York Times</i> writer delivers an urgent wake-up call exposing the alarming rise of anti-semitism -- and explains what we can do to defeat it</b><br><br>On 27 October 2018 Bari Weiss's childhood synagogue in Pittsburgh became the site of the deadliest attack on Jews in American history. For most of us, the massacre came as a total shock. But to those who have been paying attention, it was only a more violent, extreme expression of the broader trend that has been sweeping Europe and the United States for the past two decades.<br><br>No longer the exclusive province of the far right and far left, anti-Semitism finds a home in identity politics, in the renewal of 'America first' isolationism and in the rise of one-world socialism. An ancient hatred increasingly allowed into modern political discussion, anti-Semitism has been migrating toward the mainstream in dangerous ways, amplified by social media and a culture of conspiracy that threatens us all.<br><br>In this urgent book, <i>New York Times</i> writer Bari Weiss makes a powerful case for renewing Jewish and liberal values to guide us through this uncertain moment.</p> <p><b>'This acutely argued book will engender a thousand conversations' Cynthia Ozick</b><br><br><b>The prescient <i>New York Times</i> writer delivers an urgent wake-up call exposing the alarming rise of anti-semitism -- and explains what we can do to defeat it</b><br><br>On 27 October 2018 Bari Weiss's childhood synagogue in Pittsburgh became the site of the deadliest attack on Jews in American history. For most of us, the massacre came as a total shock. But to those who have been paying attention, it was only a more violent, extreme expression of the broader trend that has been sweeping Europe and the United States for the past two decades.<br><br>No longer the exclusive province of the far right and far left, anti-Semitism finds a home in identity politics, in the renewal of 'America first' isolationism and in the rise of one-world socialism. An ancient hatred increasingly allowed into modern political discussion, anti-Semitism has been migrating toward the mainstream in dangerous ways, amplified by social media and a culture of conspiracy that threatens us all.<br><br>In this urgent book, <i>New York Times</i> writer Bari Weiss makes a powerful case for renewing Jewish and liberal values to guide us through this uncertain moment.</p>