Israel and Lebanon Were Almost Allies
The pre-1948 era of bon voisinage.
April 17, 2026
Trendy Anti-Zionist Literary Manifestos
Ethnic groups tend not to offer certificates of achievement to those cheerleading their destruction.
Yesterday’s newsletter mentioned an open letter by Jewish writers complaining that the Jewish Book Council doesn’t do enough to promote anti-Israel writers. A similar argument appeared in the magazine Vulture in November, in what Phoebe Maltz Bovy describes as “a big-ideas-style feature about how North American Jewish literature is insufficiently about Jews self-flagellating over Israel’s role in the Israel-Palestinian conflict.” And now there is yet another version, by one Andrew Kreuter, in a Canadian literary journal. Bovy comments:
April 17, 2026
Mainstream Democrats Welcome the Anti-Semites
Hasan Piker and the big, Israel-hating tent.
Trendy Anti-Zionist Literary Manifestos
Ethnic groups tend not to offer certificates of achievement to those cheerleading their destruction.
The Biochemicals Getting Yiddish-Sounding Names
Followers of a questionable health fad are taking MENTSH injections.
To the Talmud, There Are Worse Things Than Being a Hypocrite
A hasidic exegesis about leprosy.