Iran’s Elections Could Complicate U.S. Plans to Renew the Nuclear Deal
But won’t derail them.
June 11, 2021
Anti-Semitism Is an Attack on American Principles
Which may explain why it often goes hand-in-hand with anti-Americanism.
In a recent statement, Congresswoman Ilhan Omar expressed her concern over “unthinkable atrocities committed by the U.S., Hamas, Israel, Afghanistan, and the Taliban.” (After tepid criticism from some of her Democratic colleagues, she issued a correspondingly tepid clarification.) While it may be surprising to see Omar criticize Hamas, there is nothing surprising or unusual about her combination of anti-Americanism and anti-Israelism. Anti-Semitism, which Omar has also indulged in more blatantly, has in the 20th and 21st centuries often gone hand-in-hand with anti-Americanism. Joseph Loconte, writing before Omar’s statement, sheds some light on the connection:
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Arab-Jewish Harmony Is Alive and Well in Haifa
What the New York Times doesn’t consider fit to print.
Anti-Semitism Is an Attack on American Principles
Which may explain why it often goes hand-in-hand with anti-Americanism.
“The Slaughterman’s Daughter” Is an Unabashedly Zionist Novel of Jewish Eastern Europe
Sholem Aleichem meets Quentin Tarantino.
Seven-Millennia Old Impressions in Clay Shed Light on a Bustling Commercial Center in the Land of Israel
Before Moses and Abraham, there was trade and agriculture.