Better to Undermine Iran’s Nuclear Program Than to Conclude Another Bad Deal
The lesson of recent explosions.
July 14, 2020
Rosa Parks, Bayard Rustin, and the “opiate of the Arabs.”
As much of the formal leadership of the Black Lives Matter movement seems eager to embrace the anti-Israel cause as its own, and, just last week, as two scandals erupted on social media involving black celebrities disseminating anti-Semitic canards and slogans, black-Jewish relations don’t seem to be at their best. Yet Saul Singer reminds us that these troubling incidents need not be taken as representative. He draws our attention to the sympathy for Jews and the Jewish state of two great leaders of the civil-rights movement: Rosa Parks and Bayard Rustin—the latter of whom was also a regular contributor to Commentary magazine:
The lesson of recent explosions.
Rosa Parks, Bayard Rustin, and the “opiate of the Arabs.”
“The resurrection of Aya Sofia heralds the liberation of the al-Aqsa Mosque.”
Government entities in the U.S. still threaten to impose their orthodoxy on dissenters.
Past and present fused uncannily in the rabbis’ thoughts.
As much of the formal leadership of the Black Lives Matter movement seems eager to embrace the anti-Israel cause as its own, and, just last week, as two scandals erupted on social media involving black celebrities disseminating anti-Semitic canards and slogans, black-Jewish relations don’t seem to be at their best. Yet Saul Singer reminds us that these troubling incidents need not be taken as representative. He draws our attention to the sympathy for Jews and the Jewish state of two great leaders of the civil-rights movement: Rosa Parks and Bayard Rustin—the latter of whom was also a regular contributor to Commentary magazine:
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