The Collapse of the Israeli Labor Party Is Bad for Israel’s Democracy
An unelected establishment threatens the popular will.
January 4, 2019
Russia’s Anti-Western, Pro-Assad Propaganda for the Arab World
With RT and Sputnik, the Kremlin spreads its message in Arabic.
In 2007, the Kremlin-owned television- and Internet-news platform RT (formerly Russia Today) opened an Arabic-language channel, which has since then become one of the most popular news outlets in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and several other Arab countries. RT, which began in 2005, offering only English-language broadcasting, was created to distribute pro-Russian propaganda to a non-Russian audience; it subsequently has created television channels, websites, and social- media accounts in several other languages. To RT, Moscow more recently added the Sputnik news service, which also features extensive Arabic-language content. Anna Borshchevskaya and Catherine Cleveland analyze the perspectives being spread by the two networks in the Middle East:
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Russia’s Anti-Western, Pro-Assad Propaganda for the Arab World
With RT and Sputnik, the Kremlin spreads its message in Arabic.
Widespread Unrest Poses a Real Danger to the Iranian Regime
Washington can and should aid the protesters.
Some of Israel’s Finest Art Now Comes from the Orthodox Community
What Gershom Scholem got wrong.
A Brief History of Pittsburgh’s Jews
The Jews of Squirrel Hill didn’t follow their coreligionists elsewhere into the suburbs.