Israel’s Friendship with Iraqi Kurds, and Why Iran Opposes It
When anti-Kurdish and anti-Jewish bigotry intersect.
June 6, 2023
The Legacy of the French War Hero Who Betrayed His Country and Its Jews
Philippe Pétain on trial.
In 1918, Marshal Philippe Pétain was the most revered man in France—the heroic general who saved his country from the German onslaught at the battle of Verdun and led the army to its eventual victory. In the summer of 1945, at the age of eighty-nine, he was condemned to death by a special tribunal in Paris, although the sentence was commuted to life in prison. The crime of which he was tried and convicted was treason, but any moral reckoning would include his overseeing of the Vichy government’s enthusiastic efforts to deliver French Jewry to Hitler. Allen Lane reviews a “splendid” new book on the trial by Julian Jackson:
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Where It Matters Most, the National Anti-Semitism Strategy Drops the Ball
Silence about anti-Zionism, and violence against Ḥaredim.
A Christian Child Taken from His Parents, and the Fate of Modern Egypt
His name is Shenouda.
The Legacy of the French War Hero Who Betrayed His Country and Its Jews
Philippe Pétain on trial.
A World-Champion Marathoner again Chooses the Sabbath over Athletic Glory
Beatie Deutsch’s chariot of fire.