Ari Hoffman is a contributing columnist for the Forward, where he writes about politics and culture. He is an adjunct assistant professor at New York University, and has a doctorate in English Literature from Harvard and a law degree from Stanford.
Ari Hoffman
By Ari Hoffman
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Opinion The center is winning. That’s a good thing.
Election 2020 is in no rush, but all nerve-wracking things must eventually come to an end. Appropriately enough for Scranton’s favorite son, word has gone out from Pennsylvania that Joe Biden has pulled decisively ahead. Votes are still being counted, but the Trump presidency is over. Joe Biden will be the next President of the…
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Opinion Call it by its name: The lesson for US Jews from the UK antisemitism debacle
American Jews have a lot to learn from their British relatives. As the UK Labour Party antisemitism scandal came to a close this week, the lesson from across the pond was clear: If Jews call antisemitism by its name, others will follow their lead. If they do not, Jews will be left behind. History helps…
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Opinion How wokeness on campus is seeping into antisemitism — in lower schools
Morton Schapiro, the president of Northwestern University, did something this week that passes for heroism in these cowardly times: he stood up for himself as a Jew. The context has become depressingly familiar. A group called “NU Community Not Cops” gathered outside of Schapiro’s house in the wee hours of Sunday morning and chanted “f-ck…
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Opinion The peace process is hospitalized in Jerusalem with Covid
I come not to bury Saeb Erekat nor to praise him, but merely to reflect on what the possibility of him dying would say about the conflict he has toiled within for decades. Erekat, the veteran Palestinian negotiator, is hospitalized in Jerusalem with Covid-19, and his prognosis is grim. Eulogies are already being written, and…
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Opinion Debate | Can you compare the Proud Boys to Antifa?
By almost all accounts, Tuesday’s debate between President Trump and Vice President Biden will be remembered most for the President’s refusal to condemn the anti-Semitic white supremacist group known as the Proud Boys. But the context of those words involved another controversial group altogether: Antifa. Chris Wallace asked President Donald Trump to condemn white supremacists…
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Opinion Zoom said no to a Palestinian terrorist. Others must follow.
A face-off this week pitted the video app Zoom against a public university on what should have been a simple question: Should college students be able to Zoom with a terrorist? The public university, San Francisco State University, said yes; it had scheduled a Zoom conversation with the Palestinian terrorist Leila Khaled, who executed two…
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Opinion A rushed confirmation would be a travesty. Ruth Bader Ginsburg taught us how to fight it.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a daughter of Brooklyn, fixture in Washington, and no-doubt-about-it entrant into any list of all time greatest American jurist, held on for as long as she could. Like Civil Rights hero John Lewis, her nearly nine decades seemed not nearly enough, and she exits just when we might need her the most….
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Opinion Of course we should cancel terrorists.
Israel and the United Arab Emirates may have left the Palestinian cause in the dust of their recent peace agreement, but it continues to be championed on college campuses, even with quads and dorm rooms largely empty because of Covod-19. Two recent invitations spotlight the enduring appeal of pro-Palestinian politics for the tweed jacket set,…
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