The U.S. Can’t Afford to Abandon Its Base in Southern Syria
Doing so would grant a major victory to Iran.
July 6, 2018
A Recent Bill Encapsulates Everything That’s Wrong with the Knesset—but Not For the Supposed Reason
A proposal to outlaw the filming of Israeli soldiers.
On June 15, the U.S.-based far-left New Israel Fund (NIF) distributed a press release decrying a proposal before Israel’s legislature to outlaw the filming of Israeli soldiers. Left-wing activists and journalists quickly joined in denouncing an authoritarian assault on freedom of speech by preventing news coverage of allegedly misbehaving troops; a major television channel aired a heated debate over the bill between an activist and a right-wing politician. Two days later NIF claimed that the bill had made it through the committee—the first of four votes required for such a bill to become law—and was on its way to making it through the Knesset. But, writes Haviv Rettig Gur, the entire episode was a sham:
July 6, 2018
A Recent Bill Encapsulates Everything That’s Wrong with the Knesset—but Not For the Supposed Reason
A proposal to outlaw the filming of Israeli soldiers.
The Jewish and Arab Refugee Problems Are Not Alike
The persecution and expulsion of Jews from Arab lands.
Human Interactions, Not Reason, Are the Necessary Foundations of Faith
Rarely does someone abandon religion because of a question he cannot answer.
Republican Spain’s Bullfight in Honor of Maimonides
To coincide with the Jews’ readmission to Spain.