Temple Mount Riots Past and Present
Mahmoud Abbas’s dangerous game.
August 10, 2017
On the Way to Oblivion, Democratic Socialists Endorse BDS
The decline of a once Zionist and heavily Jewish party.
At their national convention last weekend, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) voted to endorse the movement to boycott, divest from, and sanction Israel (BDS); after the vote, those present broke into a rousing chant of “From the river to the sea / Palestine will be free!”—suggesting that their dispute was with something other than Israeli policies. Paul Berman comments on the historical significance of this move by a now insignificant political party that once stood for Zionism and against anti-Semitism and Communism, and was very much shaped by its Jewish members:
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North Korea’s Progress in Developing Nuclear Weapons Is Good News for Iran
They both got a good deal, and are helping each other.
On the Way to Oblivion, Democratic Socialists Endorse BDS
The decline of a once Zionist and heavily Jewish party.
What People Ate in the Shtetl
Sunday—potatoes, Monday—potatoes . . .
How Ḥasidic Jews Have Kept Calabrian Citron Farmers in Business
A bitter frost threatens this year’s crop.