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Thane Rosenbaum is a novelist, essayist, law professor and Distinguished University Professor at Touro University, where he directs the Forum on Life, Culture & Society. His most recent book is Beyond Proportionality: Israel’s Just War in Gaza.

America’s new muscularity has placed the world on notice: This is no longer the United States of Obama and Biden. Red lines will be enforced.
The blue lights from TVs, tablets and smartphones will shine even brighter and will be attended to with even greater addiction—like zombies waiting for instructions, human contact eroded even further, our privacy invaded while feasting on more disinformation.
The carnivals mocking ultra-Orthodox Jews and even victims of the Holocaust were all in good fun—the “just kidding” of kitsch without any malignant intent. Honestly, can’t Jews take a joke?
Pernicious ideas that shouldn’t even be allowed to grow on the dark side of the moon have become a sideshow for British rocker Roger Waters, who distorts facts with evil intent.
The Palestinians’ strategy of rejectionism has failed miserably, and the world has grown tired of it. Their moment as the world’s most favorite refugees has passed them by.
Two world leaders gasping for their political lives are ready to gamble.
What more did this guy have to do to merit an early demise? He surely knew that in his line of work, life expectancy is low, and death by natural causes is rare.
Alt-right anti-Semitism—whether in Charlottesville, Va.; Pittsburgh, Pa.; or Poway, Calif.—is widely condemned as pathological; Jew-hatred by minority communities, however, is regarded as neither habitual nor noteworthy.
The president’s new executive order doesn’t reclassify Jews as a nationality or a race; it simply treats them as if they were, while denying federal funding to universities that attack Jewish students by disguising their anti-Semitism as anti-Zionism.