The China-Iran-Saudi Arabia Deal Might Be Less Than Meets the Eye
Riyadh still has many reasons to fear Tehran.
March 13, 2023
Why Mizrahi Jews in Israel Tend to Vote the Way They Do
And the pitfalls of overstating the “shared culture” of Jews and Arabs in the Middle East.
The support of Jews from the Arab world was a crucial factor in the rise of the Israeli right in the 1970s, and Mizraḥim remain an important part of the right-wing coalition today. To one left-wing activist, the path to winning over Mizraḥi voters goes through the promotion of the “shared culture” that connects them to Arabs near and far, which can in turn be an antidote to the “anti-Arab racism” that, he claims, has been promoted among Israelis of Middle Eastern ancestry by Ashkenazi politicians. Lyn Julius is unconvinced:
March 13, 2023
Why Mizrahi Jews in Israel Tend to Vote the Way They Do
And the pitfalls of overstating the “shared culture” of Jews and Arabs in the Middle East.
Success, the World of Letters, and the “Brutal Bargain” of American Jewish Assimilation
Revisiting Norman Podhoretz’s Making It.
A Harsh Peace Treaty Didn’t Pave the Way for the Rise of Nazism
Setting the record straight about Versailles, Weimar, and Hitler.
American Universities Are Rehabilitating a Convicted Terrorist
Sami al-Arian’s return to respectability.