A Left-Wing Israeli’s Case for the U.S. Peace Plan
For Palestinian leaders, a Jewish state is too high a price to pay.
February 4, 2020
The Victims of Cancel Culture Are Sacrifices to Propitiate the Gods of Wokeness
Understanding the religious impulses underpinning the American left.
Many have observed that the beliefs and conduct of the self-styled “woke” left in many ways resemble those of a religion, complete with rigid orthodoxies, the denunciation of heretics, ritualized professions of piety, and a sharp delineation between the saved and the damned. Exploring this analogy further, Molly Brigid McGrath suggests that the way online leftist mobs “cancel” public figures who offend their beliefs by subjecting them to general shunning is akin not so much to the eradication of heresy as to sacrifice:
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Israel Must Contain Turkey’s Attempt to Expand into the Mediterranean
How Jerusalem should interpret Ankara’s latest efforts to sow regional discord.
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The Future of Russia and the Fate of Its Jews
To ex-KGB officers, Jews are extremely powerful.
The Victims of Cancel Culture Are Sacrifices to Propitiate the Gods of Wokeness
Understanding the religious impulses underpinning the American left.