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Joshua Muravchik


Joshua Muravchik is the author most recently of Heaven on Earth: The Rise, Fall, and Afterlife of Socialism (Encounter).

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  1. Monthly Essay ·

    The Emerging War over Anti-Semitism

    By Joshua Muravchik

    To understand the significance of a new definition of anti-Semitism speciously promising clarity and fairness, we need to see whose interests it serves, not what its supporters believe.

    The Emerging War over Anti-Semitism
  2. Editor's Pick ·

    How Barack Obama Turned the Democrats against Israel

    The triumph of hypocrisy.

  3. Response ·

    Anti-Semitic Acts Don’t Have to Involve Hatred of Jews

    By Joshua Muravchik

    I thank Michael Walzer and Ben Cohen for their comments and their complimentary words, and Kenneth Marcus for his insights. I hasten to offer Walzer my apology if he feels I did him an injustice...

    Anti-Semitic Acts Don’t Have to Involve Hatred of Jews
  4. Editor's Pick ·

    The Rise and Fall of the Black-Jewish Alliance, and How It Might Be Revived

    After being torn apart by anti-Semites, its restoration is threatened by woke anti-Americanism.

  5. Editor's Pick ·

    A New Book Debunks the Myth That Blames the U.S. for Iran’s Woes

    The fall of the shah.

  6. Observation ·

    Q and the Jews

    By Joshua Muravchik

    Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

    Q and the Jews
  7. Editor's Pick ·

    How the Biden Administration Might Restore Bipartisan Support for Israel

    Cautious optimism?

  8. Editor's Pick ·

    How Israel Helped Win the Cold War

    Worth more than “five CIAs.”

  9. Editor's Pick ·

    Israel Keeps Saving the World from Nuclear Threats

    Audacious, risky, dangerous—and effective.

  10. Observation ·

    How the Left Turned Against Israel

    By Joshua Muravchik

    Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

    How the Left Turned Against Israel
  11. Observation ·

    Socialism and the Jews: A Brief History

    By Joshua Muravchik

    Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

    Socialism and the Jews: A Brief History
  12. Editor's Pick ·

    Jewish Voice for Peace Exists Only to Give a Kosher Stamp to Attacks on Israel

    Not very Jewish, and not at all for peace.

  13. Response ·

    It’s Not So Easy to Distinguish Attitudes toward the Jewish State from Attitudes toward Jews

    By Joshua Muravchik

    Walter Laqueur’s illuminating essay on the Protocols of the Elders of Zion reminds us that, while Jewish life has changed greatly in the last centuries, demonization of Jews remains a constant. Je...

    It’s Not So Easy to Distinguish Attitudes toward the Jewish State from Attitudes toward Jews
  14. Editor's Pick ·

    The UN’s Destructive, and Self-Destructive, Obsession with Israel

    An organization founded to prevent war instead countenances and abets terror against the Jewish state.

  15. Observation ·

    Did American Racism Inspire the Nazis?

    By Joshua Muravchik

    Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

    Did American Racism Inspire the Nazis?
  16. Observation ·

    Taking History into Their Own Hands

    By Joshua Muravchik

    Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

    Taking History into Their Own Hands
  17. Editor's Pick ·

    Where Does Hillary Clinton Stand on Israel?

    The Clinton-Blumenthal emails.

  18. Observation ·

    Why I Changed My Mind about Anti-Semitism and Anti-Israelism

    By Joshua Muravchik

    Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

    Why I Changed My Mind about Anti-Semitism and Anti-Israelism
  19. Editor's Pick ·

    The Palestinian Activist Who Resigned from B’Tselem to Fight the Palestinian Authority

    A Palestinian gadfly.

  20. Response ·

    France’s Long Ambivalent Relationship with the Jews

    By Joshua Muravchik

    At the outset of his very interesting and provocative essay, Alain El-Mouchan quotes French Prime Minister Manuel Valls: “If 100,000 [French] Jews leave [for Israel], France will no longer be France....

    France’s Long Ambivalent Relationship with the Jews
  21. Editor's Pick ·

    No, Western Colonialism Didn’t Cause the Mess in the Middle East

    A new book upends conventional wisdom.

  22. Editor's Pick ·

    The Path from the Iran Deal to War

    Tehran’s many new opportunities for aggression.

  23. Editor's Pick ·

    Why a Military Strike against Iran May Be the Best Option

    "Sanctions have never stopped a nuclear drive anywhere."

  24. Editor's Pick ·

    The Truth about Islam and Terrorism

    Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

  25. Editor's Pick ·

    A Friend of Israel?

    Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

  26. Observation ·

    A Tree Grows in Lublin

    By Joshua Muravchik

    Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

    A Tree Grows in Lublin
  27. Editor's Pick ·

    Truman Falsified

    Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

  28. Editor's Pick ·

    The Rising Israeli-Arab

    Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

  29. Editor's Pick ·

    X-Friends

    Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

  30. Editor's Pick ·

    Trashing Israel

    Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.