Salman Rushdie has once again been reduced to a symbol in the West’s sometimes ineffective efforts to defend freedom against Islamist terrorism.
The Indian-born author was a highly …
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By Jonathan S. Tobin
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8/18/22
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How much of what is wrong with the country can be placed on the media? Much of the deep division between left and right — with increasingly little room left in the center — is driven …
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By Jonathan S. Tobin
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8/10/22
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If a ceasefire holds, the latest fighting between Israel and Palestinian terrorists in Gaza won’t have changed much in a conflict …
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Commentary by Jonathan S. Tobin
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8/10/22
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That a UN official would go on the record with anti-Semitic comments ought to be enough to engender outrage and involve consequences for the person involved. But sometimes, a controversy over …
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By Jonathan S. Tobin
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8/3/22
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If you’re old enough to remember the darkest days of the movement to free Soviet Jewry, the news last week that the Russian Justice Ministry has asked a court to close down the operations …
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By Jonathan S .Tobin
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7/28/22
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The organized Jewish community and the religious denominations say they’re committed to two positions.
On the one hand, all of them purport to be strong supporters of social justice, …
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By Jonathan S. Tobin
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7/6/22
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Jewish Star, won a first place Rockower award for a piece about Jonathan Pollard, at the annual conference of the American Jewish Press Association last week at the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta. It …
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7/6/22
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If, like most people, you don’t follow the world of political and literary intellectual ideas closely, then you missed it. Three years ago, a debate between two conservative writers turned …
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By Jonathan S. Tobin
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6/29/22
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The decision of an American president to visit the Middle East has always been seen primarily through the lens of its impact on efforts to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. That is not the …
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By Jonathan S. Tobin
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6/28/22
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For a lot of people, the phrase “cancel culture” is still a theoretical concept. They know it refers to people being punished in various ways for saying things others don’t want …
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By Jonathan S. Tobin
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6/16/22
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