Column
When it comes to anti-Semitic barbs and dog whistles, the overlaps between the two men who denounced their Jewish identity are again all too apparent.
What actually binds these groups together is an ultimately incomprehensible animus against Judaism and the Jewish people.
Jerusalem is tempted by investment from Beijing, as well as the idea that it can’t be solely dependent on an unreliable American ally. But it must not be neutral in this conflict.
A novelist’s refusal to have her work translated into Hebrew and Ben & Jerry’s inability to explain why they want to single out Israel for boycotts tell us all we need to know about how Jew-hatred is justified.
Comedian Dave Chappelle may have crossed a line with recent anti-Semitic jokes, but his rejection of “woke” totalitarianism is a breath of fresh air.
Israel’s foreign minister and prime minister-in-waiting has been free to operate without much attention or criticism. Yet, since taking office, he’s overseen some highly questionable diplomatic moves that harm critical Israeli national-security interests.
Anti-Semitism comes in a variety of guises, and Jews have real problems concerning it. Casting non-Jews to play Jews in movies and television isn’t one of them.
Americans are losing their liberty not to invading armies from China or Russia, or even to terrorists from Al-Qaeda, but to domestic revolutionaries.
The strengthening of Iran from American appeasement and Biden’s Afghanistan debacle is creating pressure on a country aligned with Israel and upsetting a delicate regional balance of power.
Anything that dents the appeal of Jew-hatred in the public imagination is to be welcomed; however, no national government or transnational body can exercise full control over a free society.
When it comes to the West, the Israelis not only fail to grasp the eye-watering depth and extent of Jew-hatred, they also don’t try to understand it.
It seems that only the left in Israel and elsewhere still buys the “two-state solution” baloney.