Nakba Day Mourns Wounded Arab Pride, Not Humanitarian Catastrophe
The real disaster.
December 13, 2022
Why Al Jazeera’s Lawsuit against Israel at the ICC May Backfire
A lesson from an American anti-Semite of the 1940s.
In May, the Qatar-based Al Jazeera network requested that the International Criminal Court (ICC) investigate the death of its reporter Shireen Abu Akleh, who was hit by a stray bullet during a shootout between the IDF and Palestinian guerrillas. Rafael Medoff suggests that this exercise in lawfare may end up hurting Al Jazeera—not just because its claim against Israel has no merit, but because the proceeding might reveal the news organization for what it is: an arm of the Qatari government tasked with disseminating anti-Semitism, anti-Americanism, and Islamism. Medoff cites a historical precedent:
December 13, 2022
Why Al Jazeera’s Lawsuit against Israel at the ICC May Backfire
A lesson from an American anti-Semite of the 1940s.
The First Amendment Case for Religious Charter Schools
The Supreme Court has already laid the groundwork.
How Kabbalah Shaped America
Colonial and Revolutionary thinkers were influenced by a Renaissance tradition of Christian kabbalism.
The First Hanukkah in British Jerusalem, 1917
An official report likened the ouster of the Turks to the defeat of the Seleucid Greeks by the Maccabees.