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 [...]
Anti-Semitism in Islam–Not Decreed By Heaven
September 8th, 2008 · 19 Comments · Judaism and Religion
Tags: anti-semitism·Benny Morris·Islam·Martha Nussbaum
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.
Tags: anti-semitism·Belgium·European anti-Semitism·France·Holocaust·Islam
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 [...]
Tags: AIPAC·anti-semitism·Christian Zionists. Chuck Missler·Chuck Missler·dispensationalism·Hal Lindsey·Holocaust·Jack Van Impe·John Hagee·John McCain·Joseph Lieberman·Malcolm Hoenlein·philo-semitism·premillennialism