Response ·
Anti-Semitic Acts Don’t Have to Involve Hatred of Jews
By Joshua MuravchikCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Joshua Muravchik
Joshua Muravchik is the author most recently of Heaven on Earth: The Rise, Fall, and Afterlife of Socialism (Encounter).
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Monthly Essay ·
The Emerging War over Anti-Semitism
By Joshua MuravchikTo understand the significance of a new definition of anti-Semitism speciously promising clarity and fairness, we need to see whose interests it serves, not what its supporters believe.
Observation ·
Q and the Jews
By Joshua MuravchikWhere did QAnon come from, what attitudes does the conspiracy movement take toward Jews and Judaism, and will it become more dangerous or fade away?
Observation ·
How the Left Turned Against Israel
By Joshua MuravchikIn 1948, the nascent state enjoyed political support from almost the entire global left. A new book by a member of today's left takes a close look at how and why that changed.
Observation ·
Socialism and the Jews: A Brief History
By Joshua MuravchikSocialism, so recently considered over and done with, is now back. What does it mean for the Jews?
Response ·
It’s Not So Easy to Distinguish Attitudes toward the Jewish State from Attitudes toward Jews
By Joshua MuravchikCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Observation ·
Did American Racism Inspire the Nazis?
By Joshua MuravchikA new book claims as much—and in so doing falls into the intellectual trap known as reductio ad Hitlerum .
Observation ·
Taking History into Their Own Hands
By Joshua MuravchikA new book by Daniel Gordis traces “one of the most extraordinary human stories of all time"—and makes clear that the story continues in similar fashion today.
Observation ·
Why I Changed My Mind about Anti-Semitism and Anti-Israelism
By Joshua MuravchikI once thought it possible to address the world's turn against Israel without bringing in anti-Semitism. No longer.
Response ·
France’s Long Ambivalent Relationship with the Jews
By Joshua MuravchikCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Observation ·
A Tree Grows in Lublin
By Joshua MuravchikRemembering Jan Karski, the Pole who told FDR to his face about the Holocaust, and still wondered if he'd done enough.
