Israel Must Prepare for a Day When China Dominates the Middle East
Beijing is set to be the winner of the Syrian civil war.
May 14, 2019
Rashida Tlaib’s Twisting of Jewish, and Palestinian, History
Arabs killed 436 Holocaust survivors in an effort to prevent the creation of Israel.
When Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib stated that she often gets “a calming feeling” when she thinks about the Holocaust, she made it perfectly clear that she is calmed not by the deaths of six million Jews but by the thought that her Palestinian ancestors “lost their land, . . . their livelihood, their human dignity, their existence in many ways [sic], . . . to create a safe haven for Jews.” Liel Leibovitz, rather than attempting to unpack the perverse logic of Tlaib’s words, simply notes some relevant historical examples. Among them is the case of the Polish-born Atara Abramson, who—after surviving Auschwitz, where the rest of her family was killed—came to the Land of Israel and settled in the Kfar Etzion kibbutz in 1946:
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Rashida Tlaib’s Twisting of Jewish, and Palestinian, History
Arabs killed 436 Holocaust survivors in an effort to prevent the creation of Israel.
An “Unmissable” Exhibit on Auschwitz Falls into the Familiar Trap of Universalizing the Holocaust
Oddly discomfited by the Jewish center of the story it tells, and overly content with contemporary platitudes.
The Widening Gap between American and Israeli Jews Is about Far More Than Politics
Not alike.
The Absence of an Ancient Word for “Judaism” Doesn’t Mean There Was No Ancient Judaism
The flaw in Daniel Boyarin’s new book.