Israel Shouldn’t Get Its Hopes Up about Iraq
Any outreach to the Jewish state is a product of temporary desperation.
February 4, 2019
Amnesty International’s Campaign against Tourism to Israel
An attempt to ignore the history of Judaism and Christianity.
Last week, the human-rights organization Amnesty International, which has a long track-record of obsessive hatred of the Jewish state, released a report accusing Israel of encouraging tourism in eastern Jerusalem and the West Bank as part of a “political and ideological” scheme to tighten its grip on these areas. Therefore, the report claims, businesses that facilitate travel to Israel, such as Airbnb and Hotels.com, are abetting “human-rights violations.” NGO Monitor, a group that responds to efforts by non-governmental organizations to libel Israel, notes that the report is a poorly sourced and poorly reasoned effort to prove that tourism to the Dead Sea or to sites of great significance to the history of Judaism and Christianity results from a nefarious Jewish plot:
February 4, 2019
Why American Efforts to Train Arab Armies Have Failed, and How They Can Succeed
A cultural gap not easily bridged.
Amnesty International’s Campaign against Tourism to Israel
An attempt to ignore the history of Judaism and Christianity.
Felix Nussbaum’s Artistic Depictions of the Holocaust as It Unfolded
Paintings from a Jew in hiding.
A Unique Biblical-Era Head Could Depict an Ancient King
A detailed miniature from Abel-beth-maacah.