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January 4, 2017

Britain’s Betrayal of Israel

Friends don’t kick friends in the back.

Prime Minister Theresa May delivered a moving speech to the Conservative Friends of Israel last month, praising the “true friendship” between her country and the Jewish state. Yet only a few weeks later the United Kingdom lent its support to the UN resolution condemning Israeli “settlements” in the West Bank and Jerusalem—whose wording, it seems, British diplomats helped to craft. Douglas Murray, rather than seeing pure contradiction between May’s words and the actions of her diplomats, finds a common thread in two “discordant notes” in the speech itself. The first was an awkward attempt to balance complaints about anti-Semitism with others about “Islamophobia.” As for the second:

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January 4, 2017

  1. Don’t Let Iran Rule the High Seas

    The U.S. must show its resolve.

  2. Britain’s Betrayal of Israel

    Friends don’t kick friends in the back.

  3. Rediscovered after a Mysterious Theft: the Oldest Document of Jewish Life in the New World

    A crypto-Jew’s diary, written so as to be hidden from the Inquisition.

  4. A Protestant’s Reflections on the Jewish Message of Christmas

    For whatever reason, God made people in tribes and nations.

  5. On Hanukkah, Israeli Spelunkers Discover Ancient Etchings of a Menorah and a Cross

    Rare finds.