Anti-Semitism Is a Threat to Western Civilization Itself
And it’s a very present threat, on both sides of the Atlantic.
December 31, 2019
New Israeli Scholarship Shows That an Alleged 1948 Massacre Never Happened
And exposes other myths about Israel’s War of Independence.
Reviewing three Hebrew-language works about Israel’s War of Independence, Yoav Gelber begins with Eliezer Tauber’s study of the battle of Deir Yassin, long assumed to have culminated in a massacre of Arabs by the Jewish Irgun and Leḥi militias. Tauber demonstrates that (like the “massacre” in Lydda) it was nothing of the sort. Both sides, however, greatly exaggerated the number of Arab casualties for propaganda purposes, with consequences that also bear examining:
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New Israeli Scholarship Shows That an Alleged 1948 Massacre Never Happened
And exposes other myths about Israel’s War of Independence.
The Land of Israel through the Eyes of 19th-Century Travel Writers
“Traces of an omniscient God” or “unspeakably offensive to eye and nostril”?
When Did Jews and Christians Part Ways? Later Than You Might Think
A new scholarly analysis of the early church.
Two Hanukkahs or One?
Some back-of-the-envelope sociology of American Jewry.