Analysis
Tuesday, February 8th 2022 / Saturday, July 23rd 2022
Ken Cohen JNS, Feb. 2, 2022 “… one of the most pernicious lies about Israel’s creation is that it was born due to the Holocaust, a result of the United Nations Partition Plan of 1947. The truth is, Israel was created by the Jews themselves as a result of more than a half-century of organizing.” […]
Gershon Baskin Jerusalem Post, Feb. 2, 2022 “For the first time in decades, a true representative democratic election was held within a Palestinian political party. The outcome of the election was a great surprise to almost everyone, especially to those who are completely out of touch with the Palestinian public.” An interesting development occurred recently […]
Abraham Benlolo and Jerry S. Grafstein National Post, Feb. 4, 2022 “Where was Amnesty International?” On June 1, 2001, a Palestinian terrorist blew himself up outside a Tel Aviv night club, killing 21 Israelis, 16 of whom were teenagers. Two months later, another Palestinian suicide terrorist entered the Sbarro restaurant in Jerusalem and killed 15 […]
Kenneth Jacobson The Times of Israel, Feb. 5, 2022 “To claim that Israel conducts an apartheid system toward its Arab citizens when there is no evidence to sustain that bespeaks a bias against the very idea of a Jewish state.” In a world where criticism of the State of Israel and its policies is hardly […]
Monday, February 7th 2022 / Saturday, July 23rd 2022
Hillel C. Neuer Newsweek, July 17, 2020 China’s appointment in April to a U.N. Human Rights Council (UNHRC) panel that selects world human rights monitors sparked global outrage. Even worse, it now turns out that among the 17 different appointments to be made this year by this five-nation consultative group, the vetting of the expert on freedom of […]
Dan Diker JNS, Feb. 1, 2022 A new Amnesty International report, called “Israel’s apartheid against Palestinians: a cruel system of domination and crime against humanity,” is the latest in a series of political assaults on Israel by various “human rights” organizations, among them B’Tselem and Human Rights Watch. The 211-page indictment is a voyage into an alternate reality. […]
Daniel Hurst The Guardian, Feb. 2, 2022 Amnesty International has called on the Australian government to unequivocally condemn “crimes against humanity” after the prime minister dismissed the group’s assessment that Israel is perpetrating apartheid against Palestinians. Scott Morrison told reporters “no country is perfect”, in response to Amnesty’s 280-page report on Israel. A spokesperson for the foreign affairs […]
Richard Kemp Gatestone Institute, Feb. 2, 2022 The latest grotesque exhibition of anti-Israel vitriol among NGOs is this week’s publication of a report by Amnesty International that recycles tired, repeatedly disproven yet deliberately provocative antisemitic tropes and accusations of racism. This from an organization that was itself last year branded as “systemically racist”. The title of the […]
Friday, February 4th 2022 / Saturday, July 23rd 2022
Joshua Cohen Harper’s, Oct. 17, 2013 Jeremy Dauber on the remarkable life and afterlife of the man who created Tevye the Dairyman by Joshua Cohen on October 17, 2013 Jeremy Dauber is the Atran Professor of Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture and Director of the Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies at Columbia University. He is also a friend. […]
Joseph Berger NY Times, July 24, 2011 Sholem Aleichem arrived in New York in 1906 as the world’s most famous Yiddish writer — a distinction his comic but often disturbing stories of Eastern European life might have mocked as grandiose. Seeking refuge from Russian pogroms, he hoped to explore “the Golden Land” his readers […]
William Deresiewicz Atlantic, January/February 2014 Dracula, Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe: it takes a special kind of greatness for a literary character to achieve autonomy from his creator. Like those “folk songs” that are actually the products of a single pen (“This Land Is Your Land,” say), such figures come to seem as if they’d sprung directly […]
Isaac Bashevis Singer NY Times, Sept. 20, 1964 CAN a folk writer be a genius, and can a genius think and feel just like an average man? If such a phenomenon is possible, Sholem Aleiohem is its closest approximation. He had the creative instincts and the inborn mastery of a genius while, at the same […]
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