The Process Begun at Oslo Was Never about Peace, Only about Israeli Concessions
A view from inside the U.S. government.
September 14, 2018
The Department of Education Gets Anti-Semitism Right, While Its Critics Get It Wrong
Kenneth Marcus and campus anti-Zionism.
Last month, Kenneth Marcus, the recently appointed assistant secretary of education for civil rights, announced that his office plans to reopen an investigation into an incident in 2011 in which an anti-Israel organization allegedly charged an admission fee only to Jewish students. The Department of Education had closed its investigation into the affair in 2014, finding no wrongdoing. On Wednesday, the New York Times published a heavy-handed front-page story about Marcus’s decision, which confusingly accuses Marcus of supporting a “definition of anti-Semitism that . . . explicitly defines Judaism as not only a religion but also an ethnic origin.” As Noah Rothman argues, the article exhibits a severely warped understanding of anti-Semitism, and of what it means to be pro-Palestinian:
September 14, 2018
The Department of Education Gets Anti-Semitism Right, While Its Critics Get It Wrong
Kenneth Marcus and campus anti-Zionism.
Seventeen Years after Its Attack on the World Trade Center, Al-Qaeda Is Still Very Much Alive
It’s even expanded its reach.
Why the Museum of the Bible Angered So Many Academics
Losing public authority over Scripture.
Marc Chagall in Vitebsk
How the artist was influenced by his hometown.