What Israel’s Settlement-Legalization Law Does, and Why It Matters
A watershed moment.
February 9, 2017
Minimizing the Holocaust at the “New Yorker”
The competition for victimhood wasn’t started by Jews but in reaction to them.
In a brief review of the French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy’s recent The Genius of Judaism, an unnamed author at the New Yorker points to the “real contradiction” between Lévy’s insistence that the Holocaust was a “crime without parallel” and his objection to the recent fad of “competitive victimhood.” James Kirchick assails the shoddy and “sinister” thinking behind this comment:
February 9, 2017
The Future of Iraq after Islamic State
Iranian influence and sectarian fragmentation.
Fighting Hizballah in Latin America
Money-laundering, heroin, and terror.
Minimizing the Holocaust at the “New Yorker”
The competition for victimhood wasn’t started by Jews but in reaction to them.
Archaeologists Find a Twelfth Dead Sea Scroll Cave—Without Scrolls
They were most likely stolen in the 1950s.