Salman Rushdie and the Western Apologists for Those Who Wish Him Dead
Jimmy Carter and Team To Be Sure.
August 17, 2022
Salman Rushdie and the Western Apologists for Those Who Wish Him Dead
Jimmy Carter and Team To Be Sure.
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder and supreme leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, issued a fatwa (religious ruling) in 1989 calling for believers to murder the novelist Salman Rushdie due to the content of his novel, The Satanic Verses. Over the years, two of the book’s translators have been stabbed—one fatally—and numerous others have been injured or killed in attempts to follow the ayatollah’s writ. Last week, an American Shiite Muslim came closer than his many predecessors to killing Rushdie, stabbing him multiple times and leaving him in critical condition. Graeme Wood comments on those intellectuals in the West who have exuded sympathy for the stabbers:
August 17, 2022
Israel Studies Isn’t Immune from the Academy’s Anti-Israel Mania
Instead of serving as a bulwark against (or at least a shelter from) vulgar ignorance, it is becoming an adjunct to it.
God, Mother of Israel
“Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb?”
When Sigmund Freud Sent Theodor Herzl Fan Mail
“A sign of my appreciation towards . . . the poet and fighter for our people’s human rights.”
The American Virtuosos Breathing Life into Old-Fashioned Cantorial Music
A revival or a dying gasp?