President Trump’s Odd War Against Science and Intellect in America
"What the mass once learned to believe without reasons,
who could overthrow that with reasons?
Friedrich Nietzsche, Zarathustra
From its glaringly incoherent beginnings, the Trump presidency has positioned itself to wage relentless war against science and intellect....
The left still has a Jewish problem
There is a tragic account of the last moments of Grigori Zinoviev, the veteran Russian Bolshevik leader of Jewish descent who was executed by Stalin in 1936. According to the historian Donald Rayfield, on...
Trump repeats Obama’s mistakes on Syria
After eight years of dealing with an American president who considered establishing more “daylight” between the United States and Israel, the last 15 months has been a whole lot easier for Israeli Prime Minister...
The Corbyns of this world
NETANYA, Israel — Jeremy Corbyn represents the shameful, sneaky, face of anti-Semitism. The one that accepts Jews who subscribe to his radical brand of politics, the ones who will play by his rules.
He’ll probably...
U.S. government supports the terrorists, and not the victims, in lawsuit
Victims of international terrorism suffered a terrible blow this week when the United States Supreme Court declined to hear Sokolow v. Palestine Liberation Organization, a case brought by American citizens killed or injured in terrorist...
Houston, we’ve got your back!
As a child, I remember hearing the story of Noah in Hebrew school. In a class of 5-year-olds, we drew pictures of animals walking into the ark two-by-two in an orderly fashion. And I...
Humoring the headlines
SAN DIEGO−President Trump plans to send the National Guard to patrol the Southern border. If that works out, he will deploy the Navy to blockade the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific Coasts. The ships will...
Bibi zig-zags on African refugees
JERUSALEM — Amotz Aza-El, a respected Israeli journalist, writing in Thursday’s Jerusalem Post has compared the current prime minister of Israel to the biblical Aaron, the brother of Moses, who yielded to popular demand and built...
Harvard’s Jewish students flunk ‘Israeli History 101’
Radical Jewish students at Harvard University are planning to hold a late “Liberation Seder” to “protest the continuing occupation by Israel.”
On Thursday, April 5—six days after all other Jews around the world held their...
Bayard Rustin (1912 – 1987)
One of the most important leaders of the Civil Rights Movement, Bayard Rustin was a consistent advocate for Israel and a determined opponent of anti-Semitism.
Born in West Chester, Pennsylvania, Rustin moved to Harlem in...