That’s the title of Victor Davis Hanson’s latest. My own opinion is that progressives have been anti-Semitic for a long long time. Anti-Semitism is both ancient and widespread, and what’s more it occurs among various groups and for a wide … Continue reading →
Rashida Tlaib has been getting a lot of flak, and rightly so, for some remarks she made recently about Israel, the Palestinians, and the Holocaust. The context was a question about the one-state solution, and this is the part of … Continue reading →
A while back we had a Great Musicals Debate here in which commenter Richard Saunders wrote, in response to my saying that I much prefer the original stage version of “Guys and Dolls” to the Brando/Sinatra film version: Neo — … Continue reading →
…that by claiming that Jesus was a Palestinian, she is underlining the idea that the Jews were the original inhabitants of the land now called “Palestine”? Because—and this certainly isn’t breaking news—Jesus was a Jew. No, of course she doesn’t. … Continue reading →
Does it seem as though the NY Times has had special difficulties lately in terms of blows to its lofty goal of being the unassailable paper of record? The Netanyahu/Trump anti-Semitic cartoon, and then another anti-Semitic cartoon, both of which … Continue reading →
When I first heard that the measles outbreak in New York was particularly bad among Orthodox (actually, ultra-Orthodox) Jews, I assumed it was because of some religious prohibition about vaccines in that group. That’s also what I read here and … Continue reading →
When the international version of the NY Times decided to publish an anti-Semitic cartoon by the Portuguese cartoonist Antonio Moreira Antunes, it was just following a long-established European post-WWII tradition. Antunes has been in the anti-Semitic image business for decades, … Continue reading →
(1) An armed man (an off-duty border guard) and an Iraq War veteran both charged the shooter and may have helped prevent further carnage. (2) The shooter was a white supremacist, yes, but he hated Trump for Trump’s support of … Continue reading →
One person has been killed and three are hospitalized with what is described as non-life-threatening injuries when a man entered a San Diego Chabad synagogue during services on the last day of Passover and opened fire. The mayor of San … Continue reading →
You think I exaggerate? Not much. Take a look for yourself: The cartoon, apparently by a Portuguese artist named Antonio Espresso, depicted a blind Donald Trump, resplendent in the kippah he wears at all times except when the cameras are … Continue reading →
[The following is a slightly edited repeat of a previous post.] Tonight is the beginning of the Jewish holiday Passover. In recent years whenever I’ve attended a Seder, I’ve been impressed by the fact that Passover is a religious holiday … Continue reading →
Seems possible, although it’s difficult to know how widespread it is: Jewish voters furious at Democrats’ defense of Rep. Ilhan Omar say they’re done with the party that has held their support for generations. “We felt we had a home … Continue reading →