Hope, Not Despair, Causes Terrorism
Can the West convince jihadists that it’s not on the brink of defeat?
August 31, 2017
Jews’ brand of particularism angers messianists of all kinds.
One of the puzzles of anti-Semitism is that it has managed, in its various forms, to attract believing Christians, believing Muslims, secular racists, devotees of the far left and far right, and—in its most modern form, hatred of the Jewish state—progressives who claim to stand for tolerance. Moshe Koppel suggests an answer:
Can the West convince jihadists that it’s not on the brink of defeat?
Preparing an official blacklist to be used for boycotting Israel.
Islamic State takes to the high seas.
Jews’ brand of particularism angers messianists of all kinds.
Der Nister died in the gulag, just a few years before his colleagues were murdered.
One of the puzzles of anti-Semitism is that it has managed, in its various forms, to attract believing Christians, believing Muslims, secular racists, devotees of the far left and far right, and—in its most modern form, hatred of the Jewish state—progressives who claim to stand for tolerance. Moshe Koppel suggests an answer:
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