The Houthis Expand Their Influence into Africa
Working with al-Qaeda.
April 16, 2025
Lessons from the Kidnapping of a Jewish Businessman 50 Years Ago
A familiar mixture of anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism, and class and racial resentment.
A recent novel has brought renewed attention to the real-life incident from which it takes its inspiration: the 1974 kidnapping of a successful American Jewish businessman named Jack Teich. In the rhetoric of his kidnappers, one finds a familiar mixture of racial and class resentment, anti-Semitism, pro-Palestinian sympathies, and justification for violence that wouldn’t be out of place on a college campus today. Teich, in his memoir, describes the rantings of the captor he dubbed “the Keeper.” Daniel Edward Rosen writes:
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Lessons from the Kidnapping of a Jewish Businessman 50 Years Ago
A familiar mixture of anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism, and class and racial resentment.
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