Liberals Should Start Taking Anti-Israel Activists at Their Word
Romanticizing bigots.
August 21, 2024
Written as the Nazis came to power.
Over 40 years ago, Richard Hatch, a particle-physicist-turned-professional-magician—came across a German book about Jews and magic, published in 1933. Given the date, he assumed its author, Günther Dammann, was an anti-Semite repackaging familiar myths about Jews and the occult. Hatch revisited the book more recently, and discovered something very different, writes David Segal:
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Yahya Sinwar’s dilemma.
Ignoring U.S. restraints to try for victory.
The confusing, the unknown, and the simply untrue.
Written as the Nazis came to power.