Repeating Old Mistakes Won’t Help the People of Gaza
It’s necessary to resist fantasizing about the motivations of the involved parties.
January 2, 2019
Recent Attacks on J.K. Rowling Reveal Something about the Anti-Semitism of the Left
Those who insist that an anti-Zionist need not be an anti-Semite unwittingly prove the opposite.
One of the latest targets of obsessive Israel-haters has been J.K. Rowling, the author of the wildly successful Harry Potter books, who has become a vocal critic of the endemic anti-Semitism of Britain’s Labor party. Chiming in, a representative of a group called Jews for Racial and Economic Justice accused Rowling of trying to make up for the “viciously antisemetic [sic] scenes in [her books] that destroyed Jewish kids” with “right-wing Netanyahu talking points.” Liel Leibovitz comments:
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The Pros and Cons, for Israel, of the U.S. Withdrawal from Syria
The foundation of the Jewish state’s security doctrine is that it will defend itself.
Amos Oz’s Place in the Jewish Literary Canon—in His Own View
Will he be placed with Sholem Asch or with S.Y. Agnon?
Recent Attacks on J.K. Rowling Reveal Something about the Anti-Semitism of the Left
Those who insist that an anti-Zionist need not be an anti-Semite unwittingly prove the opposite.
Remembering the French Jew Who Saved Hundreds of Children during the Holocaust
Georges Loinger.