In Lebanon, Economic Pressure on Iran Seems to Be Bearing Fruit
Combined with an attempt to undermine Christian support for Hizballah.
December 19, 2019
Understanding the Ideology Behind the Jersey City Murders
An amalgam of anti-Semitic canards.
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has released a two-part report on the online postings—under a variety of aliases and on several sites—of David Anderson, one of the two perpetrators of the deadly attack on a kosher grocery store in Jersey City. Emerging from these postings is an amalgam of ideas about Jews and the Bible shaped by Black Hebrew Israelite groups and the Nation of Islam—groups Anderson nonetheless rejected as insufficiently extreme—and the fringes of the far-right and far-left. In Anderson’s view, African Americans are descendants of the biblical Jews, today’s Jews are evil impostors, and the former must fight the latter:
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Slowly, Arab Attitudes toward Israel Are Changing
The “anti-Semitic craze” has begun to dissipate.
Understanding the Ideology Behind the Jersey City Murders
An amalgam of anti-Semitic canards.
An Ancient Factory Discovered in Israel Produced the Roman Empire’s Favorite Sauce
Made from fermented fish.
How an Albanian Muslim Rescued Two Jewish Families from Hitler
Meet Xhemal Veseli.