Under Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian Authority Hurts Palestinians at Least as Much as Israelis
It has misused foreign aid to promote terror and crush dissent.
February 11, 2020
George Steiner’s Vapid Excuse-Making for Anti-Semitism
The late philosopher hated Israel and went so far as to rationalize the Holocaust.
The philosopher, cultural critic, and novelist George Steiner died on Monday at the age of ninety. A French-born Jew, Steiner wrote extensively about the Holocaust and anti-Semitism. Yet for all his proclamations about the moral gravity of the Shoah, his sophisticated explanations for anti-Semitism often became indistinguishable from justifications. It is perhaps not surprising then that he was also a pioneer of the vicious hatred of Israel that has become so fashionable in left-wing circles. In a 1972 review of Steiner’s collection of essays In Bluebeard’s Castle, Irving Howe was among the first to detect this moral perversity:
February 11, 2020
The Recent Fighting between Turkey and Syria Will Not Weaken Russian Supremacy
More than ever, the various sides need Russia to moderate.
Why Israelis Don’t Trust the European Union
PR campaigns won’t make up for funding terrorists.
George Steiner’s Vapid Excuse-Making for Anti-Semitism
The late philosopher hated Israel and went so far as to rationalize the Holocaust.
The Hebrew Bible’s Ethical Revolution
Stemming from a God who stands above nature.