In Its Latest Confrontation with the United States, Iran Has Backed Down
But its efforts to expel the U.S. from Iraq will continue.
January 13, 2020
Socialists Are Content to Blame Anti-Semitism on Everyone but the Anti-Semites
Among the blamed are the victims themselves.
Recent articles in Jacobin magazine—the flagship publication of the American hard left—have responded to the upsurge of violent attacks on Jews with articles declaring that “to defeat anti-Semitism we must defeat capitalism” and “only the left can defeat anti-Semitism.” For its part, the likeminded Jewish Currents has simply blamed the victims. Ari Hoffman, noting socialism’s long and well-documented history of hostility toward Jews, takes stock of these arguments:
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Israel Must Call More Attention to Hizballah’s Failure to Comply with the 2006 Cease-Fire
A UN report only acknowledges the tip of the iceberg.
Socialists Are Content to Blame Anti-Semitism on Everyone but the Anti-Semites
Among the blamed are the victims themselves.
Can Judaism Thrive If Cut Off from Its Talmudic Roots?
Thoughts on daily Talmud study not conducted “in the spirit of a believer.”
Robinson Crusoe’s Many Jewish Incarnations
Alter Leyb Robinson and his friend, Shabbos.