With or Without the Nuclear Deal, the Islamic Republic May Be Headed for Collapse
A lesson from the fall of the Qajars.
May 9, 2018
What If Proponents of the Peace Process Had Pressured Mahmoud Abbas When It Mattered?
The UN, the press, and J Street are late to the game.
To anyone who has followed Mahmoud Abbas’s career with any care, his recent rantings about Zionist colonialism and Jewish responsibility for the Holocaust will have come as no surprise. What was surprising, however, was the reaction: the New York Times called for him to step down; the Jewish pro-Palestinian group J Street condemned his words in no uncertain terms; and the UN Security Council came close to issuing a rebuke of its own. Abbas responded to this unexpected uproar with an apology, albeit a mealy-mouthed one. Liel Leibovitz, commenting on the incident, devises a “thought experiment”:
May 9, 2018
In Israel, Tamika Mallory Discovers a New Avenue for Her Anti-Semitism
A Women’s March leader blames Benjamin Netanyahu for Donald Trump.
What If Proponents of the Peace Process Had Pressured Mahmoud Abbas When It Mattered?
The UN, the press, and J Street are late to the game.
A New Book Falsely Accuses the American Jewish Establishment of Indifference to Anti-Semitism
Jonathan Weisman searches for an identity he can’t seem to find.
How Did Artichokes Become a Jewish Vegetable?
Two moments of Italian Jewish distinctiveness.