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July 1, 2020

The UK Labor Party Censures Those Who Blame Israel for the Abuses of American Police, but the “New York Times” Hires Them

One institution improves as the other declines.

For several years, Students for Justice in Palestine and other anti-Israel groups have been disseminating the claim that the Jewish state trains U.S. police officers to use brutal and lethal techniques, especially on black men—an accusation as absurd as it is malicious. In the wake of the death of George Floyd, this canard has taken on new life, leading the English actress Maxine Peake to claim that the police officer who murdered Floyd did so using a technique introduce by Israel. Jonathan Tobin comments on the uproar Peake inadvertently started in her own country, and an American parallel:

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July 1, 2020

  1. The U.S. Has the Legal Tools to Maintain the Arms Embargo on Iran—if It’s Willing to Use Them

    Snapback.

  2. The UK Labor Party Censures Those Who Blame Israel for the Abuses of American Police, but the “New York Times” Hires Them

    One institution improves as the other declines.

  3. The South African Chief Justice Who Praised Israel and Sparked the Ire of His Own Government

    Mogoeng Mogoeng.

  4. The Hebrew Bible Never Speaks of Religion, Belief, or Even Law

    Evidence that Judaism can’t be reduced to intellectual abstractions.

  5. Two Rare Discoveries Are Evidence of the Original Return to Zion

    Fake writing and filling an archaeological “black hole.”