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February 16, 2023

Israel and Jordan Should Cooperate to Stop Syria’s Deadly Drug Trade

Captagon is a Middle Eastern problem with a regional solution.

A powerful, dangerous, and addictive stimulant popular among Islamic State fighters and Gulf state partygoers, Captagon has in recent years become the major export of war-torn Syria. Last month, Israel caught smugglers trying to bring a large amount of the drug into its borders. Jordan, meanwhile—after largely restoring diplomatic and commercial relations with Damascus to their pre-civil-war state—has become one of the major markets for the pills, with socially deleterious results. Natalie Ecanow explores the dangers, and what can be done:

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February 16, 2023

  1. The Anti-Semitic Myth behind the Palestinian Catastrophe

    Originally, the Nakba had little to do with Palestinian refugees.

  2. Israel and Jordan Should Cooperate to Stop Syria’s Deadly Drug Trade

    Captagon is a Middle Eastern problem with a regional solution.

  3. Updating the Definition of Anti-Semitism Favored by Jewish Activists

    IHRA is not beyond criticism, even if its opponents tend to argue in bad faith.

  4. Remembering the Jew Who Disguised Himself as a Member of the Hitler Youth to Survive the Holocaust

    Solomon Perel.

  5. How Jews Writing in Yiddish, Hebrew, and German Discovered Their “Primitive” Brethren

    A far cry from the “bland exoticism” of the New York Times.