For Iran, the Turkish Invasion of Syria Is a Mixed Blessing
Hassan Rouhani’s condemnation may be mere lip service.
October 28, 2019
Norman Podhoretz and the American Jewish Cause
A lesson from Jeremiah.
In two weeks, the Jewish Leadership Conference will award its Herzl Prize to the neoconservative thinker, literary critic, and longtime editor of Commentary. Reflecting on Norman Podhoretz’s legacy, Rick Richman compares his trajectory with that of the Supreme Court justice and American Zionist leader Louis Brandeis, and also that of the Hollywood screenwriter Ben Hecht, who advocated relentlessly for European Jewry during World War II and for the Jews of a nascent Israel thereafter:
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Why Benny Gantz Should Choose the Likud over the Arab Parties
Compromising with Netanyahu would be preferable to a third election.
Germany’s Problem Is Not Remembering the Holocaust. Its Problem Is Misusing the Memory
The Shoah did not target “human beings.” It targeted Jews.
Norman Podhoretz and the American Jewish Cause
A lesson from Jeremiah.
Anti-Zionism Threatens Not Just Israel, but Liberal Democracy Itself
Like Milton’s Satan, it need only convince moderates of moral equivalence between the forces of good and evil.