Iran’s Latin American Resurgence
Riding the pink wave.
August 2, 2022
An Anti-Semitic UN Commissioner Admits to Lobbying Congress and Otherwise Exceeding His Mandate
The U.S. can take concrete steps in response.
That the United Nations is institutionally hostile to the Jewish state is hardly news. Nor should it be surprising that a commission of inquiry established in the wake of the 2021 Gaza war by the UN Human Rights Council—one of the organization’s worst offenders in this regard—has devoted itself single-mindedly to compiling ill-founded accusations against Israel. But it is somewhat unexpected that a member of the commission, Miloon Kothari, declared forthrightly in an interview that he doubts whether Israel should be allowed into the United National at all, and then expressed his frustration at “social media controlled largely by . . . the Jewish lobby.” Anne Bayefsky, moreover, points to part of the interview that has received less attention:
August 2, 2022
How the Stasi and KGB Fostered Germany’s Neo-Nazi Movement
A mission in which a young Vladimir Putin was involved.
An Anti-Semitic UN Commissioner Admits to Lobbying Congress and Otherwise Exceeding His Mandate
The U.S. can take concrete steps in response.
How Jews Made the Art World Modern
“What would have become of us,” asked Picasso,“if Kahnweiler had not had a business sense?”
During the First Crusade, Jews Did Not Go Like Lambs to the Slaughter
The theological and literary history of one of Europe’s first great outbreaks of anti-Semitic violence.