Assad’s Victory and Hamas’s New Tactics Have Changed Israel’s Strategic Reality
Under these circumstances, withdrawing from the West Bank would be more dangerous than ever.
December 26, 2018
Anti-Semitic Economics Could Drive Turkey into a Financial Crisis
Raising interest rates can combat inflation, but to Erdogan such a move would let “the Jews” win.
Like many of his fellow Islamists, the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan is a committed believer in anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, which he sometimes alludes to by speaking of Zionists or, in a favorite locution, the “interest-rate lobby.” With this phrase, Erdogan combines familiar European canards about nefarious Jewish financiers with the traditional Islamic prohibition on usury. Aykan Erdemir and John Lechner argue that Erdogan’s fanciful notions about Jewish malfeasance could push his country’s fragile economy over the brink:
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Anti-Semitic Economics Could Drive Turkey into a Financial Crisis
Raising interest rates can combat inflation, but to Erdogan such a move would let “the Jews” win.
A New York Suburb Uses Zoning to Keep Jews Out
Welcome to Airmont, no synagogues allowed.
DNA Suggests Widespread Jewish Ancestry among Latin Americans
Descendants of conversos, scattered among the nations.
Two Historians Reconsider the Question of Jews, Money, and Modernity
From Karl Marx to the early Zionists.