What President Trump Can Accomplish on His Trip to the Middle East
Strengthened alliances and a reform program for the Palestinian Authority.
May 18, 2017
Turkey’s Anti-Semitic, Anti-Democratic, Pro-Erdogan Hit Television Drama
Catholics and Freemasons join Jews as the villains.
One of Turkish television’s most popular series, The Last Emperor, tells of the final years of Sultan Abdulhamid II—before he was overthrown in 1909 by advocates of constitutional monarchy. While Abdulhamid is still remembered by many in Turkey as the ruler who revoked the Ottoman empire’s short-lived first constitution, instigated bloody pogroms against Armenians and other minorities, and cultivated a pan-Islamist ideology, the show makes him its hero. Aykan Erdemir and Oren Kessler describe its depiction of his opponents:
May 18, 2017
A Loss for the “Moderates” in the Iranian Election Is Good for Both Iran and the U.S.
Meet Ibrahim Raisi.
Turkey’s Anti-Semitic, Anti-Democratic, Pro-Erdogan Hit Television Drama
Catholics and Freemasons join Jews as the villains.
A Ḥasidic Leader’s Tale of Holocaust Survival
Rebbe on the run.
The Poem That Ended Norway’s Ban on Jews
“Christmas Eve.”