How the Syrian Government Helped Create Islamic State
And kept it afloat by buying its oil.
July 23, 2021
Calling Israel an “Apartheid State” Has Its Roots in Soviet-Style Disinformation Techniques
And Jewish groups have been duped.
In the 1980s and 90s, it was a common refrain in some circles of the hard left that the U.S. government had created AIDS or deliberately spread it to kill gays, African Americans, or both. Later on, Soviet defectors explained how the KGB had concocted this theory, planted it in an English-language newspaper in New Delhi, and simply allowed it circulate. A similar process explains the widespread belief, detached from reality, that Israel is an “apartheid state.” And the similarities are not coincidental, write Dan Diker and Yechiel Leiter:
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Calling Israel an “Apartheid State” Has Its Roots in Soviet-Style Disinformation Techniques
And Jewish groups have been duped.
How the Bible Gave the World the Idea of Human Equality
Why the Torah appropriates images from pagan Egypt in describing God’s revelation.
Saul Bellow, Cancel Culture, and the Dangers of Setting Limits on Imaginative Freedom
It’s a cop-out to explain away a novel’s improprieties on the grounds that they are of another age.
The 7th-Century Massacre of Arabian Jews, and Its Legacy
“Khaybar, Khaybar, O Jews.”