Bloodshed Returns to Jenin
A city scarred by memories of a massacre that never happened.
June 1, 2022
Iraq’s Parliament Just Passed a Law Criminalizing Ties with Israel
Even though it was already a capital offense.
Last week, Iraq’s parliament passed a law titled “Criminalizing Normalization and Establishment of Relations with the Zionist Entity,” which is set to take effect within the next two weeks. It significantly expands upon a similar law passed in 1969, which made “normalizing ties with Israel” punishable by death. As the editors of the Jerusalem Post note, the move runs counter both to the growing trend among Middle Eastern countries to improve relations with the Jewish state, and to the wishes of many Iraqi leaders.
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Iraq’s Parliament Just Passed a Law Criminalizing Ties with Israel
Even though it was already a capital offense.
The ADL Keeps Failing to Identify Anti-Semitism on the Left
The group’s new “outreach director” downplays and excuses Palestinian terrorism.
The Supreme Court Will Soon Decide Whether Praying in Public Schools is a Firing Offense
The Court may overturn longstanding “precedents that promote government hostility toward religion.”
How Yiddish Became the Language of Political Organizing for Russian Jews
Smuggled political literature from Jewish New Yorkers helped.