Iranians Are Growing Less Afraid of Their Government
While protests continue.
February 25, 2026
“Just Anti-Zionism” Gets a Federal Court’s Imprimatur
An affront to anti-discrimination law.
Here in the U.S., the legal case everyone is talking about is Learning Resources v. Trump, on which the Supreme Court ruled on Friday. But Matthew Segal directs our attention to an October 2025 decision in which the First Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and against two Jewish students. Put briefly, the court decided that MIT had not created a hostile environment for these students—which would violate Title VI of the Civil Rights Act—because the students harassing them were “anti-Zionists” rather than anti-Semites. Segal writes:
February 25, 2026
Why the Likud Rank-and-File Revolted over a Tax Cut
Bad news for Benjamin Netanyahu.
“Just Anti-Zionism” Gets a Federal Court’s Imprimatur
An affront to anti-discrimination law.
S.Y. Agnon’s Forgotten Purim Tale
“Those Who Err All Their Days, and One Man Who Erred Not at All.”
An Ancient Bronze Pan Is “Like a Book of Ethics Buried in the Ground”
“Just balances, just weights shall you have.”