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January 5, 2024

The Hamasification of the Red Cross

The organization now has a revolving-door arrangement with UNRWA.

In 1944, representatives of the Red Cross visited the Nazis’ Potemkin concentration camp at Theresienstadt and credulously determined that Jews were being treated well. Around the same time, the Dutch branch of the organization cooperated meekly with the German authorities, refusing to bring aid packages to Jewish prisoners. The Red Cross took the same approach more recently in denying requests to try to deliver lifesaving medications to ailing prisoners held by Hamas. Until 2006 the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) would not recognize the Magen David Adom, its Jewish equivalent.

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January 5, 2024

  1. The Theology of Jihadist Strategy

    For Hamas, politics is an extension of war by other means.

  2. The Hamasification of the Red Cross

    The organization now has a revolving-door arrangement with UNRWA.

  3. Iran’s Influence Operations in the U.S. Start with the Universities and Stretch to the Department of Defense

    Soft power.

  4. What Did Slavery in Egypt Really Mean?

    A new pharaoh who knew not Joseph.

  5. The Altar Boy Who Became an Orthodox Jewish Cosmologist

    The Torah is not a science book—but every scientist needs its wisdom.