The New Progressivism Makes No Room for Jews
Unless they are busy “recognizing their complicity in white supremacy.”
October 25, 2022
What have the sultans ever done for us?
While the Istanbul-based sultanate that ruled much of the Middle East, North Africa, and southeastern Europe for many centuries had its flaws—not least corruption, authoritarianism, and the murderous persecution of the Armenians from the 1880s on—it also had much to commend it. Diana Darke notes that for most of its history it was one of the most tolerant places in the world, and a refuge for Jews when they had been expelled from most of Western and central Europe:
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Login or SubscribeUnless they are busy “recognizing their complicity in white supremacy.”
For decades, Arab rulers have used hostility toward the Jewish state to justify their despotism.
The parallels to 1978 are hard to ignore.
What have the sultans ever done for us?
From King James to Koren.