The ICC Is Self-Defeating and Perverse
Its recent move against Israel demonstrates what should have been clear all along.
November 22, 2024
The Jewish Poet Who Called Out T.S. Eliot’s Anti-Semitism
Emanuel Litvinoff and English excuses for “criticism” of Jews.
In 1951, the radical historian Herbert Read invited a little-known poet named Emanuel Litvinoff to read his work at a distinguished London literary gathering. Litvinoff announced that he would be reading an ode to T.S. Eliot, who happened to be present. The poem began with praise, but then moved to a lyrical attack on Eliot’s anti-Semitism, deftly playing on the slurs found in his poems (“Bleistein is my relative/ and I share the protozoic slime of Shylock”) and eventually working up to this:
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Hizballah’s New Leader Doesn’t Have What It Takes to Maintain the Public’s Trust
“More schoolkid than orator.”
The Jewish Poet Who Called Out T.S. Eliot’s Anti-Semitism
Emanuel Litvinoff and English excuses for “criticism” of Jews.
Ishmael, Moses, and the Case for Free Will
What a comparison of passages reveals.
A Bold Historian Who Died on the Frontlines in a Final Archaeological Quest
Ze’ev Erlich “knew more about Israeli history than nearly anyone I’ve ever met.”