Remembering Norman Podhoretz
An astonishing and uniquely American life.
December 17, 2025
Terrorists are welcome, but not their victims.
What should be done about those who gather to recite such slogans as “globalize the intifada” or “from the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free [of Jews]”? After all, isn’t freedom of speech and of peaceful protest a core value of places like Australia and America? That might be a colorable defense of Australian official behavior, writes Douglas Murray, except for the fact that the nation is not governed by “free-speech absolutists.” Quite the contrary:
An astonishing and uniquely American life.
“Financial jihad.”
Terrorists are welcome, but not their victims.
From the time of the Hasmoneans.
Ozick to Updike on Roth on Appelfeld.
What should be done about those who gather to recite such slogans as “globalize the intifada” or “from the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free [of Jews]”? After all, isn’t freedom of speech and of peaceful protest a core value of places like Australia and America? That might be a colorable defense of Australian official behavior, writes Douglas Murray, except for the fact that the nation is not governed by “free-speech absolutists.” Quite the contrary:
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