Wagering That Israel Won’t Go to War, Hamas Continues Its Attacks
But Jerusalem is determined not to fall into Hamas’s trap.
August 24, 2020
Germany’s Unexpected Turn against the Boycott-Israel Movement
The rise and fall of BDS.
In recent years, a major organizing impetus for anti-Israel activity in Western Europe and the U.S. has come in the form of the boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement (BDS), which, despite its limited economic impact, has done much to generate anti-Jewish sentiment. While Germany is home to an active wing of BDS—which has made inroads with far-left parties and a few years ago seemed poised to go mainstream—the movement faced a sudden reversal when, last year, the Bundestag passed a resolution declaring its “arguments and methods . . . anti-Semitic.” The resolution has few legal ramifications, but much symbolic import. In a history of the BDS movement in Germany, Benjamin Weinthal explains what changed:
August 24, 2020
Now Is the Time for Britain to Join the U.S. in Sanctioning Iran
Independent of the EU, it can craft its own human-rights policy.
Germany’s Unexpected Turn against the Boycott-Israel Movement
The rise and fall of BDS.
A Great Essayist, Critic, and Scholar Evaluates the Real, and Imagined, Lessons of the Holocaust
In memoriam.
Theodor Herzl’s Unbounded Simple Faith in the Rightness of His Cause
Taking stock of a great Jewish leader.