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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.

If Israel is going to rid itself of Hamas once and for all, it will have to make it quick.
Isolated and encircled from all sides, no nation of its size and population has ever had to cope with so many forces arrayed against it.
We can still go see a Broadway show or movie if we need cultural confirmation that Jews have always been the object of insatiable malice—the planet’s most enduringly persecuted people.
Biden has actually performed like a Zionist since Oct. 7.
Honest people understand that the plight of the Palestinians is merely a false flag in making antisemitism fashionable.
Honest people understand that the plight of the Palestinians is merely a false flag in making antisemitism fashionable.
Apparently, the First Amendment favors terrorists but not racists. Go figure.
Soon after Israel began its counteroffensive, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire. It declined to make any statement condemning Hamas.
No other nation, most especially the United States, has ever been held to such an exacting standard of precision while responding in self-defense.
If Israel does what it must and what no other nation would hesitate in doing, perhaps this war will be the last.
Instead of all this Olympic-level prostrating, Jews should be standing up for their people and the nation-state created in their name.
In a woke minefield, disarming antisemitism is of very low priority. Another academic year and so many new accusations against Jews to learn.