Why U.S. Officials Keep Talking to the Press about Covert Israeli Operations in Iran
Someone in Washington is afraid of the mullahs.
July 1, 2022
Anti-Semitic Artwork Raises Eyebrows, but Not Hard Questions, in Germany
One of the soldiers depicted as a pig is wearing a helmet labeled “Mossad” and a scarf with a Star of David.
In May, one of Germany’s most prestigious art shows featured a giant mural created by an Indonesian artistic collective called Taring Padi. According to Taring Padi, “figures depicted in the banner reference commonly-known symbols within the Indonesian political context, for example corrupt bureaucracy, military generals [sic] and their soldiers, which are symbolized by pigs, dogs, and rats to criticize an exploitative capitalist system and military violence.” Jurek Molnar explains the ensuing controversy, which led to parts of the mural being covered up, before it was removed completely:
July 1, 2022
The Roots of American Christian Zionism Lie in Both Religious and Secular Reasoning
The one foreign-policy idea that united liberals, conservatives, internationalists, and isolationists.
Anti-Semitic Artwork Raises Eyebrows, but Not Hard Questions, in Germany
One of the soldiers depicted as a pig is wearing a helmet labeled “Mossad” and a scarf with a Star of David.
A Celebrated French Writer’s Attack on Conventional Language, Conventional Morality, and Jews
Unhappy is the nation that can still make a great man out of Céline.
How the Jewish Bible Shaped Abraham Lincoln, and Lincoln Shaped American Jewry
“I should like to visit Jerusalem sometime.”