Marc Daalder is a writer and student in Amherst, Massachusetts, where he studies History. He spends his spare time tweeting and blogging, and has been published in the Financial Times, the Chicago Reader, In These Times, the Mary Sue, and the student publication AC Voice.
The partisan divide over Israel has never been clearer than when President Trump mentioned Jerusalem during his State of the Union speech on January 30. Republicans stood for yet another ovation while almost every Democrat stayed in his or her seat (except for Senators Charles Schumer and Joe Manchin and Representative Debbie Wasserman-Schultz). The partisan…
This is the third of a series of posts on the history and lives of Jews in New Zealand. The first can be found here, the second here. Wellington is New Zealand’s capital and its second largest city, home to 405,000 people. Since the country’s founding in 1840, 38 people have served as head of…
This is the first of a series of posts on the history and lives of Jews in New Zealand. Future pieces will detail the Jewish communities that function today in the country as well as the interactions between indigenous Māori and Jewish settlers. Rumors swirled in Amsterdam in 1642 of “a large island in the…
Instinctual fear jolted through me when, while waiting at a Chicago bus stop, I happened to glance at the elementary school and find a trio of kids staring back, giving a Nazi salute. They were only 6 or 7 years old, so after the initial dread passed I realized that there was no way they…
At 5:00 p.m. on Inauguration Day, I found myself in downtown Chicago, peering across the river at Trump Tower, which was obscured in an eerie fog. In my hands I clutched a hastily-made sign, reading “This Jew Stands Against Fascism” in bold script on one side, and the Yiddish version of the Jewish Bund of…
A Jewish family from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania has suffered a torrent of harassment after false reports from Breitbart and Fox News claiming they deviously arranged the downfall of their child’s elementary school Christmas play. As responsible reporting has shown, they simply asked that their child be excused from participation in the play, and it was…
In 1992, in the midst of a tough primary against Republican President George H. W. Bush, Pat Buchanan said that “David Duke is busy stealing from me. I have a mind to go down there and sue that dude for intellectual property theft.” David Duke, of course, is the former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard…
Passing as a non-Jew is easy for me. Yes, I have dark curly hair and the distinctive nose of my parents and grandparents and the generations of Jewish ancestors that came before them. But other than that, nothing indicates I’m Jewish. My last name, Daalder, is a Dutch gentile name. I don’t wear a Star…
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