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May 26, 2016

What Makes This Knife-Wielding Maniac Different from Other Knife-Wielding Maniacs?

The double standard at work.

Last week, a man named Gary Conrad began harassing people at a Manhattan grocery store; he then pulled a knife on the police officers who had been called to the scene. When he didn’t respond to their order to put the knife down, the police shot and killed him. Had this happened in Israel, writes Judith Bergman, there would be outcry over the “disproportionate response”:

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May 26, 2016

  1. An Arms-Control Foundation’s Efforts to Buy Support for the Iran Deal

    Polluting the public sphere.

  2. Bernie Sanders Is Moving the Democratic Party toward the Anti-Israel Left

    BDS advocates will determine the party’s platform.

  3. Religious Groups Must Look Past Religious Freedom

    What Jews can teach Christians, and vice-versa.

  4. What Makes This Knife-Wielding Maniac Different from Other Knife-Wielding Maniacs?

    The double standard at work.

  5. Lag ba-Omer’s Zionist Rebirth

    Rehabilitating bar Kokhba.