An Iranian Strike Sends a Message to the U.S. and Its Allies
Tehran won’t give up its missiles. And it’s not afraid to use them.
October 5, 2018
The Bloody Mohammad al-Dura Hoax Still Lives
Fake news.
On Sunday, Nihad Awad, the executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), sent a Tweet noting the supposed anniversary of the death of the child Mohammad al-Dura, “who was murdered by Israeli soldiers eighteen years ago.” But, as Awad surely knows, it has long since been demonstrated that Dura was not murdered or even injured on that day. Rather, the France2 news channel had shown deceptively edited footage of the then-twelve-year-old Dura and falsely claimed that he had been shot by the IDF on the third day of rioting at the start of the second intifada. The story of Dura’s “murder”—not unlike the ritual-murder accusations of the Middle Ages—sparked mob violence against Jews in Europe; it was also used to justify suicide bombings in Israel. Richard Landes recalls being among the first to see the original and complete raw footage:
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In Yemen, America Is on the Right Side
Washington isn’t maiming innocent people, and it’s not acting out of pique.
The Bloody Mohammad al-Dura Hoax Still Lives
Fake news.
The Soviet Union’s Great World War II Novel—and the Great Novel of Soviet Jewry
Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate.
Why Gershom Scholem, the Great Scholar of Jewish Mysticism, Continues to Fascinate
A subversive who never lost his faith in redemption.