Hamas Rocket Attacks Are the Cause, Not the Effect, of Israel’s Blockade of Gaza
Even so, tens of thousands of tons of goods enter Gaza every week.
June 24, 2019
A Fake Massacre Serves as Historical Backdrop to a New Palestinian Novel
The myth of Lydda returns.
In the novel Children of the Ghetto: My Name Is Adam—recently published in English translation—Elias Khoury tells the story of a Palestinian who fled the city of Lydda during Israel’s war of independence and takes as its theme the “silence” of members of that generation. The subject of a fawning review in the New York Times, the book employs as its central conceit an exercise in Holocaust inversion (made clear by the title), comparing the plight of the Palestinians to that of the Jewish victims of Nazism. But the supposed massacre perpetrated by the Haganah at Lydda—which had a formative impact of the protagonist of Children of the Ghetto—never happened, as Martin Kramer demonstrated in Mosaic in 2014:
June 24, 2019
With Its Economic Peace Plan, the Trump Administration Offers Palestinian Leaders Another Opportunity to Miss
A letter telling Mahmoud Abbas what he will be throwing away.
Not Only Catholics Should Oppose a Court-Ordered Abortion in Britain
A mentally disabled woman has been deemed unfit to reproduce.
A Fake Massacre Serves as Historical Backdrop to a New Palestinian Novel
The myth of Lydda returns.
In the Netherlands, Jews Did Not Go “Like Lambs to the Slaughter”
Rather, they were dragged there by willing local civilians.