What the Irish President Should Have Said about His Country and the Shoah
Ireland celebrates Holocaust inversion day.
January 28, 2025
The “New York Times” Mistakes Adhering to the Laws of War for Violating Them
Getting Israel’s war in Gaza wrong, again.
For those like President Higgins, no charge against Israel seems outlandish or even worthy of scrutiny. But the facts, and the actual laws war criminals are charged with violating, tell a very different story. On December 26, 2024, the New York Times published an article titled “Israel Loosened Its Rules to Bomb Hamas Fighters, Killing Many More Civilians,” with a subtitle calling the aerial campaign in Gaza “one of the deadliest bombardments of the 21st century.” I read the article at the time, and didn’t find it so much to be misleading as to demonstrate the care the IDF took to limit civilian casualties amid a severe national emergency.
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The “New York Times” Mistakes Adhering to the Laws of War for Violating Them
Getting Israel’s war in Gaza wrong, again.
Russia’s Scramble for Africa and What It Means for the Middle East
Moscow makes up for its lost foothold in Syria.
A Fresh Look at the Story of Joseph in Egypt
What if his brothers didn’t sell him into slavery?
How “Hester Street” Changed Its Source Material into a New Kind of Immigration Story
An 1896 Yiddish novel’s journey to Hollywood.