Hizballah Prepares for War, and UN Peacekeepers Do Nothing
A test their new commander will likely fail.
December 10, 2018
Blaming Your Own Misfortunes on the Jews? That’s Anti-Semitism
Of course violent attacks on ḥasidic Jews are anti-Semitic.
Last week, the Forward published an article arguing that attacks on ḥasidic Jews in Brooklyn by young black men, which have become an all-too-common occurrence, are motivated by something other than anti-Semitism. The author suggests that these attacks—for instance the “sucker punching” of a Jewish teenager in November, or the beating of a Jewish man with a stick in October—are an expression of anger at gentrification; the author also quotes a source telling him that some see Jewishness as “a form of almost hyper-whiteness.” Abe Greenwald comments:
December 10, 2018
Blaming Your Own Misfortunes on the Jews? That’s Anti-Semitism
Of course violent attacks on ḥasidic Jews are anti-Semitic.
Celebrating Hanukkah, and Christmas, at a Druze Department Store Near Nazareth
Modeling intercommunal harmony near the birthplace of Jesus.
Rand Paul’s Confused Effort to Interfere with Congressional Support for Israel
A “grandstanding obstructionist.”
At the Heart of the Hanukkah Story is Jewish Chosenness
Hebraism vs. which Hellenism?