The Russo-Iranian Partnership Poses a Global Threat
A decades-old ideological alliance whose activities stretch from Latin America to Africa to Myanmar.
December 5, 2022
Presidential Advisers, Arab Anti-Semites, Left-wing Zionists, and the Birth of the Jewish State
Israel’s moment.
In Israel’s Moment: International Support for and Opposition to Establishing the Jewish State, 1945–1949, Jeffrey Herf explores the geopolitical circumstances that allowed for Israel’s birth, ranging from the USSR’s support for Jewish statehood to the role of Arab anti-Semitism in trying to block it. Herf discusses his book and much else—including the role of the White House counsel Clark Clifford in convincing President Truman to support statehood, how George Kennan came to abandon his earlier anti-Zionism, and why the American left supported Zionism—in conversation with Clifford May and Jonathan Schanzer.
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By Not Speaking Up, Middle East Scholars Have Ceded Ground to the Radicals
How morally bankrupt activism displaced scholarship.
By Embracing Euthanasia, Canada Has Already Slid Down the Slippery Slope
The idea that human rights encompass a right to self-destruction is evil.
Presidential Advisers, Arab Anti-Semites, Left-wing Zionists, and the Birth of the Jewish State
Israel’s moment.
The Portuguese Consul Who Lost Everything to Save Thousands of Jews from Hitler
Aristides de Sousa Mendes.