The Israeli Government Regains the Right to Represent Itself in Court
A step toward making Israel more democratic.
December 11, 2018
The UN’s Human-Rights Day Is Nothing to Celebrate
In Turtle Bay and Geneva, defending human rights means condemning Israel.
Yesterday was the 70th anniversary of the 1948 signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Genocide Conventions, a date celebrated by the UN as “Human-Rights Day.” As Gerald Steinberg notes, the United Nations—which last week failed to pass a resolution condemning Hamas—has an abysmal record when it comes to protecting human rights, despite its “self-congratulatory rhetoric.”
December 11, 2018
With Advanced Technology, Russia Is Making It Harder for the U.S. and Israel to Operate in Syria
Surface-to-air missiles and electronic warfare.
The UN’s Human-Rights Day Is Nothing to Celebrate
In Turtle Bay and Geneva, defending human rights means condemning Israel.
Have Gallup and the Holocaust Museum Cherrypicked Data to Defend FDR?
By 1944, a majority of Americans were willing to take in European Jewish refugees.
Archaeologists Find a Rare Flax Wick from Ancient Israel
Casting new light on a well-known talmudic passage.