A Saudi Scholar Lays the Religious Groundwork for Normalization with Israel
And proposes a new Islamic approach to international relations.
July 13, 2022
Doing so would signal that Israel’s allies have lost the argument.
Not having, or desiring, American-style guarantees of freedom of expression, European countries tend to have laws prohibiting what has come to be known as “hate speech.” Recently, some have advocated expanding these laws to include the most vicious forms of anti-Israel rhetoric. Ben Cohen argues against such an approach:
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Tehran has been developing such weapons for decades.
Doing so would signal that Israel’s allies have lost the argument.
A reminder of 19th-century Anglo-Jewish attitudes to new immigrants from Eastern Europe.
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