How European Fecklessness Encourages the Islamic Republic’s Assassination Campaign
License to kill.
December 8, 2022
The Story of North African Jewry Doesn’t Fit into Academic Narratives about Colonialism
Neither victims nor collaborators.
For many years, conventional wisdom held that North African Jews were beneficiaries of European colonialism, given a favored status by French rulers over their Arab compatriots. Lyn Julius notes that this version of events, which draws on the work of Arab nationalist historians, leads to the claim that, in her words, “Jews are responsible for their own plight.” More recently, a new generation of historians have argued that Maghrebi Jews were victims of colonialism. To Julius, neither approach comes close to capturing the truth:
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The Story of North African Jewry Doesn’t Fit into Academic Narratives about Colonialism
Neither victims nor collaborators.
In the Eyes of the Catholic Church, God’s Covenant with the Jews Remains Unbroken
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How Fake History about Jews and the Evolution of European Finance Helped Create Modern Anti-Semitism
Bills of exchange.
Quotas and Racial Classifications Have Divided American Society
An often-arbitrary system that, more often than not, harms Jews.