Ending the Palestinian “Internationalization” Strategy
And moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem.
March 24, 2017
Arabic Literature’s Renewed Interest in Jews, after Decades of Erasure
Once upon a time, Jews lived here.
Over the past decade, the Arab world has started to show increasing interest in the stories of the Jews who once lived in their lands, as expressed in television series, a few translated memoirs, and a rash of novels. This new awareness of the Middle Eastern Jewish past stands in stark contrast to the second half of the 20th century, during which Arab societies deliberately erased “their” Jews from collective memory. Reviewing two recent novels, by Muslim authors, with Jewish main characters, Samuel Tadros presents a brief history of this new genre and draws some conclusions:
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What the Arrest of an Israeli Teenager Does—and Doesn’t—Say about the Threat of Anti-Semitism
The ADL needs to clean house.
Arabic Literature’s Renewed Interest in Jews, after Decades of Erasure
Once upon a time, Jews lived here.
The West’s Crisis of Meaning in the Post-Religious Age
A maximum of choice and a minimum of meaning.
Looking for the Lost Archives of Hazor, Joshua’s Greatest Conquest
Cuneiform tablets could shed light on the biblical account of the Israelite arrival in Canaan.