For Israelis, Anti-Zionism Kills
What’s worse: to be denied membership in a country club or to be driven from your ancestral homeland?
December 14, 2018
Sweden’s Cycle of Anti-Semitism
Right, left, and Islamist.
Last year, three Arab men threw Molotov cocktails at a synagogue in the Swedish city of Gothenburg. While a court initially sentenced one of the perpetrators, a Palestinian born in Gaza, to two years in prison followed by deportation, a higher court recently overturned the deportation on the grounds that his record of anti-Semitism might make him a target of persecution by the Israeli government. This is but one example of a systemic, threefold problem, writes Manfred Gerstenfeld: Muslim immigrants attack Jews, leftist politicians refuse to do anything while fomenting hatred of Israel, and far-right parties, some of which are hostile to Jews, gain popularity:
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Hizballah’s Manufacture of Precision Missiles Poses a Strategic Threat to Israel That Grows Graver by the Day
Lebanon, unlike Syria, has been spared Israeli airstrikes.
How Jewish Studies Came to Harvard, with Anti-Semitism Hovering Nearby
A “view of Judaism on its own terms.”
Sweden’s Cycle of Anti-Semitism
Right, left, and Islamist.
How the Original Manuscript of Maimonides’ First Mature Work Made It from Morocco to Jerusalem
Via Cairo, Aleppo, and Oxford.