Iran’s Militias in Iraq Threaten Israel
The next war with Hizballah could be far deadlier than the last.
March 8, 2019
Islam, Arab Public Opinion, and the Palestinians
Religious zeal, not nationalism, motivates Arab attitudes toward Israel.
Palestinians—as well as Arab leaders and opponents of Israel in the U.S. and Europe—have often claimed that the Palestinian fate is a central concern, if not the central concern, of Arabs everywhere. Examining data from Google in various Arab countries, Hillel Frisch notes that the frequency of searches for such topics as “Palestinian resistance” decreases sharply the farther one goes from Gaza and the West Bank. Non-Palestinian Arabs, by contrast, are far and away more likely to search for “al-Aqsa mosque” than for information about the Palestinian resistance, and Palestinians’ own interest in al-Aqsa is similarly high. To Frisch, all of this makes clear that religion, far more than nationalism, motivates Arab attitudes regarding Israel:
March 8, 2019
The Meaning of Congressional Democrats’ Lukewarm Response to Anti-Semitism in Their Ranks
Is Corbynization on the horizon?
Islam, Arab Public Opinion, and the Palestinians
Religious zeal, not nationalism, motivates Arab attitudes toward Israel.
In Britain, the Jewish Literary Volcano Is Stirring
Civilization’s weather vane.
How W.E.B. Du Bois Combated Anti-Semitism
And tried to call attention to the Holocaust.