Last Week’s Peace Agreement Sends a Clear Message to the Palestinians
And refutes notions that have shaped U.S. Middle East policy for more than half a century.
September 21, 2020
California’s New Ethnic-Studies Curriculum Has Nothing to Say about Iranian Jews
Only about Jewish racial privilege.
The California department of education recently released a new model ethnic-studies curriculum, which might soon become mandatory for all high-school students in the state. Deeply influenced by the latest politically correct trends in the academy, the curriculum teaches that Irish and Jewish Americans, being white, have benefitted from “racial privilege.” As for the state’s large Persian Jewish community—a non-European minority group that fled persecution in its homeland and has become part of California’s fabric—it has no place at all, writes Karmel Melamed:
September 21, 2020
Israel’s Vulnerable New Friends Are Drawn to Its Strength
Bahrain and the UAE fear demography, Iran, and a withdrawing U.S.
California’s New Ethnic-Studies Curriculum Has Nothing to Say about Iranian Jews
Only about Jewish racial privilege.
From Selling Jewish Calendars to Selling Schmutz: A Story
A fictional peddler reflects on the imponderability of anti-Semitism.