The Anti-Semitism September 11 Revealed
Revisiting a 2001 article.
September 12, 2024
The Anti-Semitism September 11 Revealed
Revisiting a 2001 article.
In 2001, in the immediate wake of al-Qaeda’s attacks on America, Jonathan Rosen was asked to write something about anti-Semitism. So many of the points he raised in the resulting essay, reproduced in full at the link below, ring true today, and make clear just how predictable so much of the global reaction to October 7 has been. Rosen reflects on what he wrote then from the standpoint of 2024:
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