The Fighting Ends for Now, but the Threat from Gaza Remains
Israel has no quarrel with Hamas, but that makes no difference to Hamas.
May 7, 2019
A Publishing House Withdraws a Novel after It Was Attacked for Being Pro-Israel
Claiming objection to “Islamophobia,” when the real objection is to Zionism.
In April, a small publishing house called Dzanc Books announced a new novel, by the former journalist Hesh Kestin, that imagines a successful invasion of the Jewish state. Blurbed by the best-selling author Stephen King, The Siege of Tel Aviv seemed poised for success when critics rushed to Twitter to denounce it as “racist,” “Islamophobic,” and so forth. Dzanc mounted a feeble defense, but then withdrew the book. Mark Horowitz comments on what he calls an “all-too-familiar scene in American publishing”:
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The Logic of Palestinian Blackmail
Whether from Hamas or from the Palestinian Authority.
A Publishing House Withdraws a Novel after It Was Attacked for Being Pro-Israel
Claiming objection to “Islamophobia,” when the real objection is to Zionism.
How Two U.S. Officers Became Jewish Librarians in Allied-Occupied Germany
The looted books of Offenbach.
What Canadian Jewry Gets Right
A new survey shows that it’s thriving in ways American Jewry isn’t.