Elections Could Worsen, Rather Than Alleviate, the Palestinian Crisis of Political Legitimacy
The U.S. should instead focus on corruption, stability, and humanitarian concerns.
February 5, 2021
A Republican Party with Room for Marjorie Taylor Greene Has No Room for Jews
Just as Ilhan Omar has legitimized one form of anti-Semitic prejudice, Taylor Greene’s continued presence legitimizes another.
Yesterday, under pressure from her fellow House Republicans, the Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene distanced herself from some of the outré conspiracy theories that she has touted during her time in public life—including her claims that the September 11 attack on the Pentagon did not occur and her devotion to QAnon. She said nothing about her suggestion in a 2018 speech that the U.S. government was responsible for the destruction of the World Trade Center in 2001, nor about the video she shared on her Facebook page that blames “Zionist supremacists” for seeking to undermine Europe by flooding it with Muslim immigrants. Her apologia didn’t stop the House of Representatives from taking the extraordinary step of removing her from committee assignments, a measure for which eleven Republican congressmen voted.
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A Republican Party with Room for Marjorie Taylor Greene Has No Room for Jews
Just as Ilhan Omar has legitimized one form of anti-Semitic prejudice, Taylor Greene’s continued presence legitimizes another.
Hizballah Renews Its Cyberwarfare
Iran’s digital subcontractor is a growing threat.
The Biblical Sonnets of a Forgotten Jewish Writer
Uriel Birnbaum.
The 17th-Century German Former Minister Whose Illustrations Graced America’s Best-Known Haggadah
From an Amsterdam convert to Maxwell House.