My response to a Gil Troy article praising the new Israeli government: https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/reagans-lessons-for-gil-troy/
Wednesday, June 30, 2021
Wednesday, June 16, 2021
Article 70, Criminal Code of the RSFSR
University of Pittsburgh School of Law announces creation of a KGB lab
If only KGB had the digital resources now in possession of their successors! Orwell could only guess how good they would be.
Sunday, June 6, 2021
Institutional racism: Quitting another scientific membership
Published by the Jewish News Syndicate, the story of my parting with Behavior Genetics Association I've been a proud member of for almost 30 years:
https://www.jns.org/opinion/when-scientists-support-hate-racism-and-anti-semitism/.
The editor thankfully made only few changes, except for deleting the paragraph below and moving a couple of sentences around. I also do not use the term "anti-Semitism," which implies that there is some "Semitism," or it has anything to do with Semites as a language group, which would then include Arabs. It pertains to the Jews only, and it's no-hyphen "antisemitism," just as I am used to it in Russian. No need to make it sound more "scientific" than what Wilhelm Marr did, introducing "Antisemitismus" to make Jew-hate sound more genteel.
The deleted paragraph:
An organization has never needed to consist entirely of antisemites to be antisemitic. Even in the Nazi party there were people like Schindler who were saving Jews rather than murdering them. Nonetheless, the entirety of Germany was a Nazi country, by virtue of being fully controlled by Nazis, a Jew-hating party. In the Soviet Union, when Stalin was preparing his own “final solution” for Soviet Jews, a token Jew held one of the top governmental positions. When the leadership and founders of an organization are antisemites, it is safe to call it antisemitic. Denying BLM’s antisemitism is exactly what is now fashionably called “gaslighting.”