Israel’s New Government Flies in the Face of the Country’s Western Critics
And can teach Americans a lesson about diversity.
June 17, 2021
The Leader of France’s Hard Left Is an Anti-Semite of the Old Kind
Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s statements about Jews would make Jeremy Corbyn blush.
In the country’s most recent presidential election, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of the far-left “France Rising” party, won about 20 percent of the votes, placing him just behind the two leading contenders. Unlike his British or American counterparts, he rarely takes pains to disguise his anti-Semitism as anti-Zionism. Last week, in the manner typical of conspiracy-mongers, he insinuated that both a 1980 synagogue bombing and the brutal murder of a Jewish family in 2012 were somehow cooked up by the “deep state” to manipulate public opinion. Ben Cohen writes:
June 17, 2021
Like Many Who Came Before Them, Today’s Jewish Anti-Zionists Want to Rid Judaism of Its Particularity
The un-Jews and their forebears.
The Leader of France’s Hard Left Is an Anti-Semite of the Old Kind
Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s statements about Jews would make Jeremy Corbyn blush.
The Woman Who Gave the Kibbutzim Their Junkyard Kindergartens
Malka Haas’s free-range kids.
Yiddish Is a Language That Can’t Be Disconnected from Judaism
Not just for kvetching.