Strikes on Syria Are a Good Start, but No Substitute for a Coherent Strategy
Abdication of U.S. leadership rarely works out well.
April 18, 2018
Amos Schocken and the Bigotry of Israel’s Left-Wing Ashkenazi Elite
Speaking haughtily about peace and human rights while disdaining Mizraḥim.
Haaretz is certainly not Israel’s most popular newspaper, but it is the newspaper of the country’s left-wing elite, among whom it enjoys a status similar to that of the New York Times. Many Israelis were thus outraged, if not surprised, when it published a feature in which its writers named the patriotic Israeli songs they disliked the most. Defending the survey on Twitter, the publisher, Amos Schocken, managed to cause something of a scandal with a comment he made to a woman with an obviously Middle Eastern Jewish surname. Liel Leibovitz comments:
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On Israel’s Memorial Day, Remember Yaakov Fadida
A fifteen-year-old who wouldn’t take “no” for an answer.
Amos Schocken and the Bigotry of Israel’s Left-Wing Ashkenazi Elite
Speaking haughtily about peace and human rights while disdaining Mizraḥim.
The Case for Working with the Austrian Far Right
Political parties don’t have DNA.
Muriel Spark’s Novel of a Roman Catholic in Jerusalem
A “Gentile Jewess” in the holy city.