Column
France is trying to walk a fine line between battling extremists and respecting their rights. But the toleration of anti-Semitism is an indicator that the West isn’t winning.
Most “men and women in blue,” many of whom are black, deserve praise, not scorn, for drawing their weapons.
While a return to “normalcy” isn’t possible no matter who wins, it’s still imperative that we stop cutting off friends and relatives who vote for a different candidate.
What is it about the Abraham Accords that makes the foreign policy “experts” so upset?
Glenn Greenwald viciously attacked Israel. Now he finds himself on the same side as some old foes because he dissents from liberal orthodoxy on Russia and Trump.
He lost two general elections, his personal ratings among the British public were consistently dismal, and he presided over the disgrace when it came to the Jewish community of his party’s open contempt for the country’s laws against racial discrimination and harassment.
To the dismay of its opponents, the administration has transformed U.S. policy on Jerusalem and settlements. Will they all be reversed by a Biden administration?
It identifies a culture “which, at best, did not do enough to prevent anti-Semitism and, at worst, could be seen to accept it.”
The willingness of the media to bury stories that hurt their favorite candidates and to applaud censorship is undermining faith in the press and democracy.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the signing “an important victory against all those who seek to delegitimize everything Israeli beyond the 1967 lines.”
Two years after Pittsburgh, American Jews still struggle to separate their fears of anti-Semitic hate and violence from their political preferences.
It takes a special kind of vicious creativity to concoct a universe in which peace, if forged by or with Israel, is evil.