Author Archives: Marc Siegel

Ugly rise in antisemitism after Hamas attack on Israel has deep roots in American history The antisemitism story of 2023 isn’t about freedom of speech or academic freedom; it’s about meanness and divisiveness, flames fanned by the cruelty of social ...

Bastions of Higher Learning or of Hate? The disturbing testimony by college presidents from Penn, Harvard, and MIT received a lot of attention last week because of their refusal to acknowledge the horrors of Jewish genocide or genocidal rhetoric. Though ...

Hamas’ depravity reminds this doctor to rail against dehumanization and fight for human dignity There is a reason that many Jews have never been comfortable with direct comparisons with the Holocaust. Historically, the Nazis managed to conduct the systematic trivialization ...

Should the World Worry About China’s New Mystery-Pneumonia Outbreak? When you hear about a mysterious pneumonia outbreak occurring in northern China that is hospitalizing children, you cannot be faulted in this post-pandemic era if your mind immediately jumps to a ...

The Unending Surge of Migrants is Creating a Public Health Crisis As a physician, I tend to view the burgeoning migrant border crisis as much as a public health emergency as it is a national security emergency. The distinction is ...