The Middle East’s Leadership Crisis, and What It Means for the Prospect of Palestinian Statehood
As long as Palestinians are led by selfish and corrupt leaders, the two-state solution is unrealistic.
August 16, 2017
The British Jews Who Helped Create Thatcherism
They did for Margaret Thatcher what neoconservatives did for Reagan.
When Margaret Thatcher became the leader of the UK’s Conservative party in 1974, it had been weakened by repeated electoral failures and had adopted much of the Labor party’s economic and even social ideas. It was also not particularly hospitable to Jews, and Jews tended to be wary of it. Yet, by the time Thatcher was first elected prime minister in 1979, she had presided over an ideological rejuvenation that she would put into practice during her many years in office, leading to economic privatization, a muscular foreign policy, and a reaffirmation of British values. Two Jews, who would become her closest political allies, were responsible for this change, as Robert Philpot writes:
August 16, 2017
Charlottesville, Denouncing Political Violence, and the Left’s Guilt-by-Association Problem
Why not hold Mahmoud Abbas to the same standards as Donald Trump?
The British Jews Who Helped Create Thatcherism
They did for Margaret Thatcher what neoconservatives did for Reagan.
Europe Still Prefers Its Jews Dead and Quaint
Fake Jewish weddings and what they mean.
The Real Story of How Orthodox Education for Girls Came to Eastern Europe
If you build it, the rabbis will come.