Hamas Has Failed to Rally Palestinians and Israeli Arabs to Its Cause
Reports of the death of coexistence have been greatly exaggerated.
May 21, 2021
Those who complain about structural racism won’t apply the concept to the Jewish state.
Today there is much talk on the political left about “structural racism,” a kind of discrimination or bigotry which is never overt and rarely intentional, but somehow built into the system. The idea sometimes illuminates real ills, and at other times simply obscures and distorts. But a similar concept could prove useful in describing the way certain progressives speak about Israel, argues Jonah Goldberg:
Reports of the death of coexistence have been greatly exaggerated.
Those who complain about structural racism won’t apply the concept to the Jewish state.
Why “Hitler was right” and “Death to Israel” trended on Twitter.
Saint Plato, the palimpsest, and the piyyutim.
The priestly benediction.
Today there is much talk on the political left about “structural racism,” a kind of discrimination or bigotry which is never overt and rarely intentional, but somehow built into the system. The idea sometimes illuminates real ills, and at other times simply obscures and distorts. But a similar concept could prove useful in describing the way certain progressives speak about Israel, argues Jonah Goldberg:
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