The U.S. and Europe Must Punish the Islamic Republic for Its Support for Russia
Washington and Brussels have a firm legal basis for new sanctions—but refuse to act.
November 2, 2022
A Muslim-Turned-Christian in 16th-Century Italy, and the Jewish Scholars He Met
After being captured by a converso friar-turned-pirate.
In 1516, an Ottoman diplomat named Hasan al-Wazzan was captured by a Spanish pirate of Jewish ancestry who had once been a Dominican friar. Delivered to Rome, Wazzan was imprisoned by the pope, but treated respectfully; two years later, he converted to Catholicism and was released. The newly minted Giovanni Leone set about studying manuscripts in the Vatican library, improving his Italian and Latin, and instructing his godfather, Cardinal Egidio da Viterbo, in Arabic. Natalie Zemon Davis notes that da Viterbo’s education didn’t stop there:
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Netanyahu Still Leads the Right. But Is He Losing Its Trust?
“An uprising wrapped in a bear hug.”
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The first Western diplomat to equate Zionism with racism.
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A Muslim-Turned-Christian in 16th-Century Italy, and the Jewish Scholars He Met
After being captured by a converso friar-turned-pirate.