Analysis
Monday, February 7th 2022 / Saturday, July 23rd 2022
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 […]
Analysis Communiqués
Thursday, February 3rd 2022 / Saturday, July 23rd 2022
J. Bauer Décidément, il y a des choses qui ne changent pas en Israël , en particulier l’art des média de minimiser les bonnes nouvelles. Déjà en 2004, la visite officielle à Paris du Président d’Israël, Chaim Herzog, le père de l’actuel Président, était quasiment passée inaperçue par la télévision israélienne comme je le signale […]
DEBRA SOH SPECIAL TO THE GLOBE AND MAIL JANUARY 28, 2022 The Democratic Party in the United States has done a remarkable job of trademarking itself as the party that cares about racial minorities. On Thursday, President Joe Biden confirmed he will be appointing the first Black female judge to the Supreme Court next month. Considering the […]
Rich Lowry NY Post, Feb. 1, 2022 JOE Biden was the candidate of normality who hasn’t been able to deliver it, particularly on the pandemic. This is not entirely his fault, obviously. He didn’t create the Delta and Omicron surges; nor did he — or most anyone else — foresee that the vaccines wouldn’t prevent […]
Chaos is the new, the intentional, normal. A pandemic of nihilism has been unleashed upon the land. As in Lord of the Flies, when laws, rules, protocols, traditions, and customs are mocked and dismantled, primitive human nature in the raw is unleashed. Madness now reigns in every quarter, from the iconic to the irrelevant to the […]
Derek H. Burney National Post, Feb. 1, 2022 Joe Biden began his second year as president with a rare press conference that was longer than any given by a U.S. president. It did not resonate well. White House staff and the president had to walk back gaffes he made about the threat against Ukraine where […]
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