Don’t Blame the U.S. for Iranian Bellicosity
“Maximum restraint” amounts to giving in to blackmail.
June 19, 2019
The British Christian Volunteer Who Fought for Israel’s Independence
Tom Derek Bowden, in memoriam.
Having arrived in Palestine with the British Army in 1938, at age seventeen, Tom Derek Bowden—who died last week—served under the famed and eccentric British Zionist officer Orde Wingate. In 1941, he was dispatched to Vichy-ruled Syria, where he fought alongside Moshe Dayan. Despite being released from service due to injuries, Bowden insisted on rejoining the fight on the European front, where he was eventually captured and sent to Bergen-Belsen. He returned to the Land of Israel in 1948 to fight for the Jewish state’s independence, and then went back to England to take up farming. Stephen Daisley comments on this remarkable life and its “enduring lessons.”
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Israel’s Judicial Tyranny and Its Anti-Democratic Defenders
The Supreme Court acts independently of both law and the constitution.
The British Christian Volunteer Who Fought for Israel’s Independence
Tom Derek Bowden, in memoriam.
German Neofascists Have Longstanding Ties to Palestinian Terrorists—and to BDS
Meet Karl-Heinz Hoffman and his “military sports group.”
In Yiddish, “Fiddler on the Roof” Sheds Its Mushy Universalism
This Tevye is no “sweetie-pie Jew.”