If Saudi Arabia Can Make Peace with Israel, Why Not Pakistan?
Islamabad has much to gain, and much prejudice to overcome.
July 14, 2022
How Radical European Ideologies Corrupted the Arab World—and Fostered Anti-Semitism
What Islamism shares with the global left.
Counterintuitive though it may seem, influential American intellectuals like the gender-studies philosopher Judith Butler and linguist-turned-propagandist Noam Chomsky see regressive Islamist groups like Hamas and Hizballah as “part of the global left”—a position shared by such political figures as Britain’s Jeremy Corbyn. Hussein Aboubakr argues that Butler and Chomsky, perhaps in ways they themselves don’t understand, are not far from the truth. For the past hundred years, Middle Eastern intellectuals have absorbed European ideological trends, from fascism to French existentialism to anticolonialism to postmodern leftism. None of them have been a salutary influence:
July 14, 2022
How Radical European Ideologies Corrupted the Arab World—and Fostered Anti-Semitism
What Islamism shares with the global left.
Jordan Isn’t Rushing to Embrace Syria
And the U.S. should discourage it from doing so.
Jewish Organizations Should Be Proud to Call Themselves “Jewish”
What are they willing to give up in pursuit of inclusiveness?
How Anne Frank Crafted Her Diary, and Why It Matters
“It would be quite funny ten years after the war if we Jews were to tell how we lived and what we ate and talked about here.”