How the U.S. Can Use Iran’s Economy to Pressure Its Government
Without driving up oil prices.
December 27, 2022
The Failure to Understand the Jihad against Israel Led to the Failure to Understand the Jihad against the West
Yes, the whole world can be wrong.
In October 2000, doctored footage aired on French television purporting to show the twelve-year-old Mohammad al-Dura cowering behind his father as he is shot by Israeli soldiers. While a preponderance of evidence subsequently showed that the video is little more than a hoax, Western media largely ignored that evidence. This incident serves as the touchstone of Richard Landes’s Can “The Whole World” Be Wrong?: Lethal Journalism, Antisemitism, and Global Jihad, which investigates such distortions and their effects. In his review, Jeffrey Herf criticizes the book’s “overwrought” language and polemical digressions, while praising its argument and the research that backs it up:
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The Failure to Understand the Jihad against Israel Led to the Failure to Understand the Jihad against the West
Yes, the whole world can be wrong.
Let Jews Arm Themselves to Keep Their Synagogues Safe
If you can’t worship safely because of the threat of violence, how can you be free to practice your religion?
Humanism Means Little without Its Biblical Foundations
The exiles from Judah clung to the conviction that it was their own God who had brought humanity into being.
The Jewish Medical Students of Padua
An exhibit includes a 16th-century Yiddish version of a Latin anatomy textbook.