Why Israel Must Not Capitulate to the Gaza Protests
The legitimacy of Israel’s borders.
April 9, 2018
The Kishinev Pogrom, Jewish Passivity, and Jewish Self-Defense
When Jews did fight back in 1903, anti-Semites blamed them for instigating violence.
On April 6, 1903—Easter Sunday—one of history’s most notorious pogroms began in the Russian city of Kishinev, now Chișinău, capital of the Republic of Moldova. The violence, which started in earnest in the evening and culminated the next day, left some 47 Jews dead, hundreds injured, and many hundreds of homes and shops looted and destroyed. In an excerpt from his new book, Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History, Steven Zipperstein addresses the thorny subject of how the city’s Jews reacted:
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What the Saudi Crown Prince Said about Israel, and What He Didn’t
A welcome change in attitude is not a harbinger of peace.
When Jews Complain of Anti-Semitism, It’s Usually Because They’ve Encountered It
The deepest imaginable insult.
The Kishinev Pogrom, Jewish Passivity, and Jewish Self-Defense
When Jews did fight back in 1903, anti-Semites blamed them for instigating violence.
The Unexamined Paradoxes of Freud’s “Moses and Monotheism”
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