Why Iraqis Reject the Palestinian Cause
When they think of Islam, they think of Baghdad, not Jerusalem.
September 30, 2021
How the Syrian Government Kept Islamic State in Business
Not fighting terror, but supporting it.
When the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad launched his bloody war against his own people in 2011, there were those who contended that, unpleasant as the Assad regime was, it was the only viable alternative to letting the country be taken over by terrorists. (This argument ignored Damascus’s support for Hizballah, or the fact that, at the time, it provided Hamas with its home base.) Vladimir Putin later seized upon this reasoning to justify Russia’s intervention in the war. With the rise of Islamic State (IS), this logic was taken one step further: the U.S. should make common cause with Assad’s patron, the Islamic Republic of Iran, to defeat the new terrorist threat. Matthew Levitt tells a very different story:
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The Activists Who Raise Havoc over the Cultural Appropriation of a Taco Ignore or Justify Anti-Semitic Violence
Everybody hates the Jews.
How the Syrian Government Kept Islamic State in Business
Not fighting terror, but supporting it.
Remembering Hannah Senesh, the Poet-Paratrooper Who Died for Her People
The soul of man is the candle of God.
Chaim Grade’s Tale of a Chained Woman Illuminates Pious Jews as Real People
The dramas of Vilna in the 1920s are not so far removed from the dramas an Orthodox rabbi’s wife sees playing out in the 2020s.