Iran Was Violating the Nuclear Deal Even Before the U.S. Withdrew
Aided by flaws in the agreement itself.
July 24, 2019
Turning a Celebrated Athlete into a Pawn in Israel’s Game
Mariano Rivera gets canceled.
On Sunday, on the occasion of his induction into the Hall of Fame, the beloved baseball player Mariano Rivera was subjected to an “exposé” by one Robert Silverman in the Daily Beast revealing that “over the past three years, [Rivera has] served at the pleasure of a racist president, taken part in thinly veiled propaganda on behalf of a far-right government in Israel, and gotten chummy with outright bigots and apocalyptic loons.” After briefly praising Rivera’s skill as a pitcher, and then describing—with more than a whiff of contempt—his evangelical Christian faith, Silverman devotes nearly 1,000 words of a 2,400-word article to Rivera’s positive attitude toward the Jewish state; much of the rest is spent cataloguing other athletes who have visited Israel. Liel Leibovitz comments:
July 24, 2019
Hatred of Israel Keeps Middle Eastern Christians from Visiting Their Holy Places
Pope Francis should step in on their behalf.
Turning a Celebrated Athlete into a Pawn in Israel’s Game
Mariano Rivera gets canceled.
From Playing the Trumpet with Dizzy Gillespie to Blowing an Antelope-Horn Shofar
Jennie Litvack, in memoriam.
A Forgotten Religious-Zionist Manifesto
Yehuda Leyb Don Yahya.