Fabricating the History of the Six-Day War
With little evidence, a new book blames war-mongering generals on both sides.
July 7, 2017
In France, Anti-Semitism Is a Hatred That Cannot Be Named
Lessons from the murder of Sarah Halimi.
A few months ago in Paris, an immigrant from Mali beat and murdered his neighbor Sarah Halimi, a sixty-six-year-old Jewish widow. Halimi’s killer, Kobili Traore, had a history of yelling anti-Semitic epithets at her and her family, and everything about the murder suggests he was motivated by his own religious beliefs. Yet the French government, in collusion with the French press, has refused to acknowledge that anti-Semitism had anything to do with this crime, and French television has declined to air a documentary on anti-Semitism because of the attention it pays to Muslim anti-Semites. Ben Cohen and Benjamin Weinthal write:
July 7, 2017
In France, Anti-Semitism Is a Hatred That Cannot Be Named
Lessons from the murder of Sarah Halimi.
A Strong Sense of Nationhood Isn’t Just Compatible with Democracy, It’s a Necessity
The decline of the nation-state explains the West’s political crisis.
Sex, Law, Religion—and a Secularist’s Morality Tale
A struggle between good secularism and bad religion?
Could an Italian Jew Have Created the Book That Baffled Researchers for a Century?
The Voynich Manuscript’s “mikveh” pictures.