In the Face of Terror, Israel’s New Arab Allies Show Solidarity
Only the U.S. seems out of step.
March 29, 2022
An “Investigation” into Anne Frank’s Betrayal Gets the Facts Wrong While Encouraging Anti-Semitism
We already know who murdered Anne Frank.
Released in January to much fanfare, Rosemary Sullivan’s The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation, brings the genre of true-crime writing to the Shoah. Based on a six-year investigation by a self-styled “cold-case team” that included a former FBI agent and employed the latest developments in big-data analysis and artificial intelligence, the book concludes with “85-percent” certainty that a Jew named Arnold van den Bergh betrayed the location of Anne Frank and her family to the SS. Historians and careful readers have already exposed the flimsiness of the case against van den Bergh, but that might be the least of the book’s problems. Jonathan Tobin writes:
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American Insouciance toward Iranian Mayhem Puts Its Alliances at Risk
While it tries to counter Russia in Europe, the U.S. is leaving Saudi Arabia and Israel at Russia’s mercy.
Israel Needs to Head Off a Ramadan Wave of Violence before It Starts
Nine attacks, and six dead, in a single month.
An “Investigation” into Anne Frank’s Betrayal Gets the Facts Wrong While Encouraging Anti-Semitism
We already know who murdered Anne Frank.
The Not-So-Secular Age
Reports of the death of religion have been greatly exaggerated.