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 What The US Left Should Learn From Jeremy Corbyn’s Shellacking
Let nobody tell you otherwise: The shellacking of Jeremy Corbyn is an unalloyed good. There is no ambivalence, and there must be no regret. Those who shed tears for Haman will eventually shed tears because of him. Decency sometimes has incongruous messengers, and at the moment Boris Johnson, he of the boorishness and floppy hair…
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Opinion The Lesson Of Trump’s Executive Order That Wasn’t
Two things happened to Jewish Americans on Tuesday. Only one of them was real. A Jewish grocery store in Jersey City really was attacked in a murderous rampage. There really was a synagogue and yeshiva in the same building, with real children who sat huddled in terror for hours who were then evacuated lest they…
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Opinion Jewish Students Must Stop ‘Debating’ The Hate Against Them And Start Fighting It
In retrospect, the pattern of antagonism towards Jews and Israel that became visible at Columbia University in the early 2000s and was documented in the film Columbia Unbecoming wasn’t the worst expression of hostility; it was merely the first one to attract attention to an essential truth: On college campuses, Israelis and Jews who support…
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Opinion We’re Having the Wrong Debate about the West Bank
It was a special treat, I remember: We would jump in the back seat of a car and hop over to Efrat on Saturday night. I was 17, and living for a year in Gush Etzion, the area just south east of Jerusalem that has been the scene of repeated violence. I remember the quiet…
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Opinion Thus Ends The Greatest Jewish Diaspora: A Lamentation For American Jewry
Something broke this week, and American Jews own it. The cascading blows of Israel’s decision to ban Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar from entering the country at President Trump’s behest, Tlaib and Omar’s subsequent posting of an anti-Semitic cartoon, and Donald Trump’s accusation of disloyalty against Jews who vote Democrat have left American Jews…
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Opinion Israel Was Right to Ban Tlaib and Omar
There was no elegance to the messaging, but Jewish sovereignty is not a matter of slogans. The decision to deny Democratic Representatives Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib entry to Israel, which was announced on Thursday, came after their visit had already been approved. It also appeared to be in response to a remarkable tweet from…
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