No, Israel Isn’t the Key to All the Middle East’s Problems
“Linkage” sounds a lot like another theory for explaining the world.
February 20, 2024
At a protest, even the lowliest become kings for a day.
The theory that Israel is responsible for all the Middle East’s problems may bear a suspicious resemblance to classic anti-Semitic suppositions, but the displays of hatred found regularly in protest marches in the West are much less subtle. The great British novelist Howard Jacobson considers these marches and the Israel-hating Jews who attend them:
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Login or Subscribe“Linkage” sounds a lot like another theory for explaining the world.
At a protest, even the lowliest become kings for a day.
Finding God in the Valley of the Shadow of Death.
A correspondence from the revived gulag.
The fact that it’s uncomfortable, unfair, and imbalanced isn’t a quirk of the system but a feature.