Emily Tamkin

Washington, D.C., United States

Contributing Columnist at Forward

I'm a journalist and a delight. @jdforward contrib. columnist. Work lots of places. Wrote INFLUENCE OF SOROS & BAD JEWS, writing a book on Holocaust remembrance

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Trump's approach to antisemitism at Columbia is horribly ineffective

6 days ago | forward.com | Emily Tamkin

This week, events at Columbia University offered us two reminders. The first: President Donald Trump's plans to fight antisemitism on college campuses are actually about cracking down on higher education, not about fighting antisemitism. The second: The university is deluding itself if it thinks that pretending otherwise will benefit it, or help Jewish students.
Opinion | A last-minute GOP amendment to an antisemitism bill is a blatant giveaway

2 weeks ago | msnbc.com | Emily Tamkin

On Wednesday, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee took up a bill on antisemitism with a remarkable last-minute amendment from committee Chair Bill Cassidy of Louisiana: protection for the right to say that Jews killed Jesus.
A last-minute GOP amendment to an antisemitism bill is a blatant giveaway

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Emily Tamkin

3 hours agoDoug Emhoff, husband of former Vice President Kamala Harris and the first Jewish spouse to a president or vice president, has been removed from the United States Holocaust Memorial Council along with other Biden appointees by the Trump administration. The council represents the board of trustees …
Passover teaches us why Jews should stand with Mahmoud Khalil

1 month ago | forward.com | Emily Tamkin

Mahmoud Khalil - the Palestinian activist and legal United States resident whom President Donald Trump's administration is attempting to expel - can be deported. That, at least, was the decision rendered by a judge in Louisiana on Friday.
Is this extremist Zionist group trying to protect Israel

1 month ago | forward.com | Emily Tamkin

The militant Zionist group Betar made headlines earlier this year for compiling lists of international students for President Donald Trump's administration to consider deporting over their criticism of the United States and Israel. Now, Betar has announced a new kind of list of supposed undesirables. But this time, they're Jewish.
Why India and Russia Are Going to Stay Friends (Foreign Affairs 8.7.20)

1 month ago | johnmenadue.com | Emily Tamkin

Conventional wisdom holds that New Delhi will turn to Washington as it increases competition with Beijing. But Moscows importance cannot be ignored. Russia, one is told time and again in India, is a dependable partner. It will not pursue policy that will drag India into conflict. It will not, say, kill an Iranian general without bothering to so much as pick up the phone to let New Delhi know.
Fashion & Assimilation in Hester Street (1975)

1 month ago | brightwalldarkroom.com | Emily Tamkin

Look on me. Give a look on me. Am I a Jew or a gentile?”Jake, formerly Yankel (Steven Keats), asks this while standing proudly in a park. He’s posing the question to his wife, Gitl (Carol Kane), and Mr. Bernstein (Mel Howard), who lodges with them in their New York City tenement. Jake asks his question—does he look like a Jew or a gentile—while the three are out for a day of picnicking and playing with Jake and Gitl’s son, whom Jake calls Joey and Gitl calls Yossele.
Khalil Isn't an Anomaly. American Jews Were Accused of Being a National Security Threat - Emily Tamkin

1 month ago | qoshe.com | Emily Tamkin
Mahmoud Khalil Isn't an Anomaly. American Jews Too Were Accused of Being a Threat to National Security

1 month ago | haaretz.com | Emily Tamkin

Opinion | Most campus protesters for Gaza aren't 'aligned to Hamas,' just as most Jews in the 1950s weren't aligned with the SovietsMar 18, 2025 3:40 pm ISTSend in e-mailSend in e-mail Mar 18, 2025 3:40 pm ISTLast week's move by the Trump administration to deport Palestinian activist and green card holder Mahmoud Khalil, whom the Department of Homeland Security alleges is "aligned to Hamas," is another chapter in the long U.S. history of using the language of terrorism to crack down on dissent.
Review | Chuck Schumer’s book might offer another reason to get mad at him

1 month ago | washingtonpost.com | Emily Tamkin

“Schumer is a Palestinian as far as I’m concerned. He’s become a Palestinian. He used to be Jewish. He’s not Jewish anymore. He’s a Palestinian.” So said President Donald Trump on March 12. The president had taken it upon himself to assert authority as to who is Jewish, and to say that Schumer, specifically, is not (the president also called Schumer Palestinian last summer and even alleged that he was a member of Hamas).