In Destroying a Building That Housed the Associated Press, Israel Risked Its Own Safety to Protect Civilians
The opposite of a war crime.
July 14, 2021
What We Can Learn from Bayard Rustin, Civil-Rights Leader and Great Friend to the Jews
He laid the problems of the Middle East at the feet of the dictators who brutalized the Arab people.
Bayard Rustin was a leading figure in the civil-rights movement of the 1960s, and one of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s most trusted advisers and associates. In addition, he was an incisive essayist, a relentless cold warrior who worked closely with the founders of neoconservatism, and a great friend of Israel and the Jewish people. During the 1970s, Rustin supported the liberal stalwarts of the Democratic party against the New Left radicals trying to overthrow them—a situation perhaps not so different, mutatis mutandis, from today’s. Arch Puddington, who worked with Rustin at the time, reminisces about this outstanding figure and his ideas:
July 14, 2021
Moroccan-Israeli Relations Are Strengthening, but Slowly
The kingdom entertains an Israeli diplomat, a few weeks after entertaining the head of Hamas.
What We Can Learn from Bayard Rustin, Civil-Rights Leader and Great Friend to the Jews
He laid the problems of the Middle East at the feet of the dictators who brutalized the Arab people.
Marcel Proust’s Unpublished Manuscripts Address Jewish Themes with Surprising Frankness
A complicated relationship.
A New Reality Television Show Draws on Stale Stereotypes about Orthodox Jews
“Unorthodox” again.