Try as It Might, the U.S. Can’t Disengage from the Middle East
Hasty withdrawals lead to hasty re-engagements.
April 9, 2019
How Soviet Propaganda and an Affection for Dictators Turned South Africa against Israel
Where BDS is policy.
Last week, the South African foreign minister announced that her country’s ambassador to the Jewish state, recalled last year over Israeli efforts to contain riots in Gaza, would not be returning, and that a liaison office in Tel Aviv with “no political mandate [and] no trade mandate” would serve in lieu of an embassy. Such a move demonstrates the extent to which the preferences of the boycott, divest, and sanction movement (BDS) have become policy in Pretoria. Ben Cohen explains how this came to be:
April 9, 2019
How Soviet Propaganda and an Affection for Dictators Turned South Africa against Israel
Where BDS is policy.
In France Now, Anti-Semitism Is Both Ubiquitous and Invisible—Just as It Was a Century Ago
Alain Finkielkraut and Charles Péguy.
An Ancient Depiction of a Nine-Branched Menorah Discovered in the Negev
Religious observance on the fringes of Judea.
A German Army Seder in the Midst of World War I
Led by the future rector of Hebrew University.