Peace Can’t Be Forced on Israel, or the Palestinians, from the Outside
Attempts to do so make peace impossible.
November 9, 2016
A New Film on Atatürk’s Jewish Refugee Professors
Heymatloz.
By the 1930s, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Turkey’s first president, was deeply involved in his project of modernizing and Westernizing his country, a project that included reforming the universities. When he found out that Jews were leaving Germany to escape Nazi persecution, he began recruiting German Jewish professors. Their fate is the subject of a new German-language film, Haymatloz, whose title is a play on the Yiddish word meaning “homeless.” Heike Mund writes:
November 9, 2016
It’s Time for Israel to Expand Its Navy
Doing so would also serve U.S. interests.
How Americans Misunderstand the Middle East, and Israel
It’s all about democracy.
A Fresh Rendition of Isaac Babel’s Tales of the Odessa Underworld
And what they say about the Soviet Union.
A New Film on Atatürk’s Jewish Refugee Professors
Heymatloz.