How, by Every Metric, Israel’s Occupation of Gaza Improved Gazans’ Quality of Life
Getting the facts right.
July 15, 2019
Ethiopian Israelis Are Protesting a Police Shooting. But Comparisons with the U.S. Are Dishonest and Unhelpful
It’s no “Black Lives Matter.”
Last month, an off-duty police officer in a suburb of Haifa shot an unarmed teenager of Ethiopian-Jewish parentage. While the preliminary reports from the police investigation support the officer’s claim that he fired at the ground while trying to break up a fight in which the teenager, Solomon Tekah, was involved, the shooting has already provoked mass demonstrations, some of them violent, that have in turn prompted comparisons between this shooting and those in the U.S. that gave rise to the Black Lives Matter movement. Shmuel Rosner argues that the parallels, noted by both the American press and some of the Israeli protesters themselves, are fewer than one might think:
July 15, 2019
Fostering Hostility to Israel among Young American Jews Is J Street’s Real Mission
The magical misery tour.
Ethiopian Israelis Are Protesting a Police Shooting. But Comparisons with the U.S. Are Dishonest and Unhelpful
It’s no “Black Lives Matter.”
The Polish Catholic Who Sneaked into Auschwitz to Warn an Indifferent World
The heroism of Witold Pilecki.
A Physician Loses His Job for Questioning the Wisdom of Sex Changes for Children
A recent ruling from the American Pediatric Association is political rather than scientific.