Hamas and Fatah Make Peace, Shattering the Fantasy of Mahmoud Abbas’s Moderation
To Palestinian leaders, anything is better than a peace plan.
July 7, 2020
The Antidefamation League Makes Common Cause with a Notorious Anti-Semite
Unfazed by the blood on Al Sharpton’s hands.
Last week, Jonathan Greenblatt, the director of the Antidefamation League (ADL) appeared on Al Sharpton’s political talk show to promote its participation in an initiative to ban “hate speech” from Facebook and other platforms. Sharpton, who is spearheading the initiative, has a long history of indulging in anti-Semitic rhetoric, and in the 1990s instigated acts of anti-Jewish violence that left several dead. To Jonathan Tobin, the campaign for social-media censorship is merely wrongheaded, but the embrace of Sharpton makes a mockery of the ADL’s mission:
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It’s Time for the U.S. to Place Conditions on Aid to Lebanon
Don’t bail out Hizballah.
The Antidefamation League Makes Common Cause with a Notorious Anti-Semite
Unfazed by the blood on Al Sharpton’s hands.
A Popular American Yiddish Novel about a Modern Woman’s Personal “Battle against Free Love”
Not much sex in the city.
Did the Sinn Féin Influence an Israeli Chief Rabbi’s Vision of Jewish Politics?
Halakhic thought tends naturally to theocracy.