How to Fight Anti-Semitism

Bari Weisswas a staff writer and editor for the Opinion section of theNew York Times. Weiss was an op-ed and book review editor at theWall Street Journalbefore joining theNYTin 2017. She has also worked atTablet, the online magazine of Jewish politics and culture.

Her childhood synagogue in Pittsburgh was the site of last year's Shabbat morning massacre.This passionate, vividly written, regularly insightful book is her pained, fighting

A brave book. . . . a praiseworthy and concise brief against modern-day anti-Semitism
This acutely argued bookwill engender a thousand conversations

They said 'Never Again', yet here we are again. Bari Weiss' neat exposition of modern anti-Semitism traces this hate to what I call 'the triple threat': the far-left, the far-right, and Islamist theocrats. Jews are the canary in the coal mine. Andif our Jewish friends are raising the alarm, we'd all better hear them, before it's too late
This isthe most important book you will read this year. Concise, morally certain, it's a bullet train from the first sentence to the last. There needs to be a copy in every classroom in the country. If you think something dark is rising, you're right. What can you do? This is what you do
While European anti-Semitism has put Jews in mortal danger for too long, the 'shining city upon a hill' -- America -- has descended into this same toxic darkness. Bari Weiss's book isa powerful wake-up callagainst complacency and should push all free-thinkers on both sides of the Atlantic to take a stand against new guises of the oldest form of hate in the world
How to Fight Anti-Semitismis violently stunning. It broke my heart-and then made me want to repair someone else's. In these pages and everywhere else, Bari Weiss isheroic, fearless, brilliant and great-hearted. Most importantly, she is right
Urgent, frank and fearless. There is something here to offend everyone - because there is something here to awaken everyone
A liberal humanistwhose guiding principle is free expression in art, love, and discourse. . . Weiss's work is heterodox, defying easy us/them, left/right categorization
Weiss's book feels like one long, soul-wrenching letter, written in a charmingly accessible style by a proud American reeling from the realization that the haters are on the rise