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Anti-Semitism in Islam–Not Decreed By Heaven

September 8th, 2008 · 19 Comments · Judaism and Religion

Haim Watzman
There he goes again—Benny Morris is giving the battle against Islamic anti-Semitism a bad name.
But then he’s not alone in fray. Nearly every passionate participant in the battle—Pipes, Horowitz, you name it—would make the angelically tolerant Roger Williams, the great American founder of religious toleration, go apoplectic.
In one of the perverse juxtapositions for which [...]

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More Anti-Semitism, or Just More Fear?

June 24th, 2008 · 9 Comments · Politics and Policy

Everyone knows that Europe has grown more anti-Semitic, as Avi Primor writes in the new issue of the Journal of Foreign Affairs. Like many things that everyone “knows,” the facts are different, writes Primor, who’s the former Israeli ambassador to the European Union and now head of the Center for European Studies at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya.

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Hagee, McCain, Aipac: The Audacity of Cynicism

May 25th, 2008 · 7 Comments · Politics and Policy

John McCain was shocked, shocked to know that there were horrid thoughts going on around Rev. Hagee’s brain about the positive side of the Holocaust. These comments, from a sermon on how God used Hitler to get the Jews to return to their land, in case you missed the news all weekend, include:
“How is [...]

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