Column
Tehran’s latest provocation earned censure; however, the determination in Washington to avoid a conflict while focusing on the war in Ukraine illustrates America’s confusion.
The fact that the United Nations singles out Israel for condemnation as a human-rights abuser when it is in fact the sole democracy in the Middle East and deeply committed to human rights is a travesty.
Too many young marrieds, after the inevitable first argument, come to the premature conclusion that they must have made a mistake.
Having an Arab party in the coalition should have silenced the “apartheid state” lie. It just proved again that Israel’s enemies don’t care what it does; they just want it dead.
Those Jews who defend or join it should see how a new “mapping project” conducted by a Boston BDS group is illustrative of the anti-Israel movement’s animus for Jews.
The tendency of mostly young male Palestinians to use any excuse to desecrate the site, the holiest in Judaism and third in Islam, has become commonplace.
Looking at the trial of attorney Michael Sussman, who represented Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign, from Israel, it’s impossible not to draw parallels to the trial of former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The controversy over Bradley Cooper playing Leonard Bernstein is being hyped by those who worry about anti-Semitism. Woke rhetoric about cultural appropriation doesn’t help.
If the brutal death of René Hadjaj is to mark a sea change in the country’s approach to anti-Semitic crimes, the connections between hate speech and violence need to be analyzed and exposed.
There is also a lethal refusal to face reality in the Middle East that has characterized American administrations, as well as governments in Britain and Europe, for many decades.
The mystics compare every Jew to a letter of the Torah. Like those sacred letters, if even one is missing, we are all diminished.
The ADL cheered when the Supreme Court didn’t uphold a Texas law that would stop social-media companies from silencing users. But do worries about anti-Semitism justify political censorship?