Thoughts on Yitzhak Rabin’s Assassination, a Quarter-Century On
Israel pulled itself away from the brink, and can do so again.
October 30, 2020
How the British Labor Party Denied Jews Their Place in Politics
With Corbyn out, will the party turn the corner?
From 2015 until April of this year, the hard-left parliamentarian Jeremy Corbyn—a man who called Hamas and Hizballah his friends, was possessed by an obsessive hatred of Israel, and who more than once veered into expressions of undisguised contempt for Jews—led the UK’s Labor party. Britain’s Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) yesterday released its long-awaited, and damning, report on the party’s anti-Semitism, which flourished in the rank-and-file under Corbyn’s watch. Corbyn naturally dismissed the report by downplaying the issue, and blamed those who complained of anti-Semitism as the true problem. For this reaction, the current Labor leadership promptly suspended him.
October 30, 2020
How the British Labor Party Denied Jews Their Place in Politics
With Corbyn out, will the party turn the corner?
The Murder of a French Teacher Demonstrates the Limits of Enlightenment Optimism
Nathan the Wise and the jihadist wave.
The Coronavirus Has Sent Arab Economies Reeling, but Not for the Obvious Reasons
Old ills, not a new disease, are the problem.
An Idiosyncratic Rabbi Who Learned from the Best and Dismissed the Worst of Postmodernism
Meet José Faur.