SHABBAT READING
Moses Strikes the Rock: His Sin Depends on Your Worldview: Prof. Haim (Howard) Kreisel, The Torah.com, June 21, 2023 — Commentators read the Bible closely to make sense of problematic passages. Nevertheless, their explanations are rarely purely textual, but reflect their own ideologies. A parade example is determining the precise sin of Moses and Aaron at the waters of Meribah—a sin that resulted in YHWH barring them from entering the Promised Land.
ISRAEL ALONE
WATCH: Melanie Phillips: The Case for Israel: The Brendan O’Neill Show, Spiked: July 11, 2024 — Times columnist Melanie Phillips returned to The Brendan O’Neill Show for this very special live episode. Melanie and Brendan discussed the existential threats facing Israel, why anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism, and why so-called anti-racists are indifferent to the global surge in Jew hatred.
The Child Soldiers of Ethnic Studies: Neetu Arnold, Tablet, June 25, 2024
Why Americans Are Rejecting the Squad’s ‘anti-Zionism’: Batya Ungar-Sargon, Spiked, June 26, 2024
Canada and the Decline of Western Civilization: Jerry Grafstein, JNS, July 10, 2024
Changing the Conversation: Talkisrael Helps Gen Z Creators Post a More Positive Picture of Israel: Alan Rosenbaum, Jerusalem Post, July 4, 2024
Will Gen Z Change America’s Foreign Policy Towards Israel?: James Durso, Responsible Statecraft, May 27, 2024 — That Gen Z Americans have unique foreign policy views isn’t news, but the recent student-led protests over the Israel-Hamas war has highlighted the generational differences in this country and may portend a future political distancing of the U.S. from its long-time client in Tel Aviv.
LISTEN: Unimaginable—and Inevitable: Victor Davis Hanson, City Journal, June 5, 2024 — Brian Anderson: So, in this new book, The End of Everything, you chronicle the demise of four civilizations, classical Thebes, Punic Carthage, Byzantine Constantinople, and then the Aztecs.
When Life Gives You Lululemons: Isaac Willour, The American Mind, July 10, 2024 – Four years after the death of George Floyd, we’re finally starting to see the ramifications of appeasing the progressive activist class.
PragerU Slams NewsGuard’s ‘Insidious’ Practices Aimed at Driving Conservative Media ‘Out of Business: Alana Mastrangelo, Breitbart, July 9, 2024 — PragerU slammed NewsGuard, a for-profit company that is running a mass blacklisting campaign working with corporations and advertisers to strangle conservative media.