Palestinian Support for a Two-State Solution Is Declining
Still, a narrow majority want Hamas to back away from calling for Israel’s destruction.
July 30, 2021
After Offering Citizenship to Descendants of Expelled Jews, Spain Appears to Be Having a Change of Heart
In recent months, it rejected over 3,000 requests.
In 1492, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain decreed that all their Jewish subjects—who had experienced increasing persecution during the previous hundred years—must either convert to Catholicism or go into exile. Thus ended what was then Europe’s largest, and by many metrics most prominent, Jewish community. In 2015, Spain, intent on making amends, announced that descendants of Jews who had been expelled or converted could claim Spanish citizenship. Madrid, however, has abruptly begun rejecting citizenship requests based on Sephardi ancestry. Nicholas Casey writes:
July 30, 2021
Ban Iran from the Olympics
It murders its own athletes, forbids others from competing with Israelis, and sent a probable war criminal to compete.
The U.S. Should Invite Kuwait to Make Peace with Israel
The country’s elite is ready.
After Offering Citizenship to Descendants of Expelled Jews, Spain Appears to Be Having a Change of Heart
In recent months, it rejected over 3,000 requests.
Taiwan’s Jewish Community Breaks New Ground
A permanent center for the island’s 700 Jews.