The Right Way for the Biden Administration to Help the Palestinians
Building on the Abraham Accords.
February 15, 2021
Bashar al-Assad’s Not-So-Secular Regime
A mistake the Syrian government is happy not to correct.
Some defenders of the Syrian dictator have argued that, as secular ruler, he is an important bulwark against Islamic fundamentalism, and that support for his ouster amounts to support for the Muslim Brotherhood, al-Qaeda, or even Islamic State. But even setting aside its close alliance with Islamist Iran, or its own role in Islamic State’s rise to power, the Syrian regime is in many ways anything but secular. Explaining why this is so, Asser Khattab first notes that official propaganda never mentions secularism:
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A New Book Explores the Paradox of Left-Wing Anti-Semitism, but Doesn’t Go Far Enough
The Jews Don’t Count.
Bashar al-Assad’s Not-So-Secular Regime
A mistake the Syrian government is happy not to correct.
Remembering the Great Rabbi and Psychiatrist Abraham Twerski
And a 1959 profile in Time magazine.
How Tennis Opened Its Courts to Jews
Diego Schwartzmann and his predecessors.