Bruce Ticker

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Bruce Ticker is a freelance writer based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

From Pittsburgh to Parkland: Gun Violence and its Unintended Consequences

By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — The gunman’s six words, as alleged during his trial, were both dreadful and predictable: “All these Jews need to die.” This comment, if believed by the jury, could be sufficient to tip the scales toward Robert Bowers’s punishment – the death penalty. The legal tussling over whether he should […]

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Bruce Ticker, Opinion, USA

NY Times Compounds Harm of ‘Fiery Speech’ That Bashes Israel

By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — The New York Times headline, “Fanning the Embers After a Fiery Speech,” is hardly explicit. It does not convey the meaning of the story that follows, and the story is relegated to a back section of the June 4 Sunday edition six days after another NYC newspaper broke the

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Bruce Ticker, Israel, Opinion, USA

Holocaust Jokester Sergeant in Canada ‘Suffers’ Light Sentence

By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — Guess what an organization should do if a supervisor repeatedly humiliates and bullies a Jewish subordinate in the course of joking about Jews who were exterminated in Nazi death camps. Not in the Canadian army. Military judge Cmdr. Martin Pelletier chastised Sgt. K.E. Bluemke for abusive anti-Jewish comments he

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Bruce Ticker, Holocaust, International, Opinion

Biden’s ‘Complicity’ With Pro-Palestinian Rhetoric

By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — “Silence is complicity.” By his own standards, President Biden undermined his expansive project to confront antisemitism in America that he introduced last Wednesday, and 15 days before that he ignored an opportunity to directly take on an act that threatens the Jewish community. U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, a Democrat,

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Bruce Ticker, Israel, Opinion, USA

Multiple Nakbas Imposed Upon American Jews

By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s Nakba Day resolution opens with a brazen lie: “…the Nakba is the root cause of the issues that continue to divide Israel and the Palestinian people today.” The Democratic congresswoman’s resolution for May 15 calls for commemorating the 75th anniversary of “Israel’s uprooting, dispossession, and exile

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Bruce Ticker, Israel, Opinion, USA

Those Pesky Antisemitic Thugs: How Low Can They Go?

By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — Two antisemitic thugs in London and Boca Raton, Fla., picked on Jewish targets their own size to badger, as disgusting as these attacks are. However, two of their confederates chose Jewish schoolchildren outside a religious school in north London to blare a Hezbollah battle song from their car. “We

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Bruce Ticker, International, Opinion, USA

Who Would Vote to Block a Measure to End Antisemitism?

By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — Once upon a time in America, Israel’s existence was held in as much high esteem as motherhood and apple pie. Even today, what reasonable person here would not want to stamp out antisemitism? In Washington, 19 members of the House of Representatives last Wednesday voted against a resolution to

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Bruce Ticker, Israel, Opinion, USA

CRY RACISM!..And Let Slip the Brand Onto the Republicans

By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — Nashville’s political version of Bull Connor must have been too busy plotting the expulsions of Justin Jones and Justin Pearson to learn of Republican misfortunes in the preceding two days. Donald Trump was indicted in Manhattan on Tuesday (April 4) for financial crimes sans the “death and destruction” that

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Jewish Community Must Assume a Stronger Role Lobbying for Gun-Safety Laws

By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — After news broke that three children and three adults were gunned down in Nashville, I spent some time perusing the Anti-Defamation League’s lengthy report on antisemitic incidents last year. It covered much ground, and one could say that nothing about it disturbed me. There was nothing about gun-safety laws

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Bruce Ticker, Opinion, USA