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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.
In the United States, where crimes of hate mostly strike Jewish targets, and with violent antisemitism making a disquieting comeback, no one stands guard on the wall.
No one has ever made better use of bad publicity. The worse it gets, the more energized he seemingly becomes, and the more devotedly his base responds.
“Babylon” went out of its way to foster inclusion for every category of identity except for the one responsible for moving the nascent film industry to Los Angeles, erecting studios, sound stages and an entire city to support it—in what had been a barren wasteland.
Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East, is undergoing a constitutional crisis.
Okay, show of hands: Who doesn’t have classified documents in his or her garage or sock drawer?
Relying upon data supplied by the New York City Police Department, 94% of the reported incidents of violence between 2018 and 2022 were committed against Orthodox Jews, primarily in the neighborhoods where Hasidic Jews live.
If you are fixated on the identity politics of others, and wonder whether Jews should be represented on the continuum, then Yiddish is the place to start.
How is it conceivable that of all people, Hitler and his Master Race delusions are receiving a pop-cultural renaissance?