Antisemitism is headed back to school. The summer recess was well spent, with Middle East faculty militarizing their lesson plans and pro-Hamas coffers resupplied by Qatar and Iran. Students have …
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By Thane Rosenbaum
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8/21/24
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America reached a new low this past week simultaneous with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to a joint session of Congress. Thousands of pro-Hamas activists rioted outside …
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By Thane Rosenbaum
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7/31/24
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You have to hand it to Democrats: They sure know how to throw a party — for Republicans.
In four measly years, Democrats managed to alienate moderates and help transform Republican …
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By Thane Rosenbaum
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7/25/24
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There is a certain kind of person for whom “The West Wing” was dramatic television at its finest. It featured sharp, brainy, political dialogue with a cast walking around the White House …
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By Thane Rosenbaum
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7/3/24
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The good news: Israel’s air defense systems — Iron Dome, David’s Sling, Arrow 3, and its vaunted fighter pilots — assisted by the United States, Jordan, England, France and …
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By Thane Rosenbaum
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4/17/24
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A United Nations fact-finding mission, charged with investigating Israel’s war against Hamas, concluded in a widely disseminated and exploited report that the Israel Defense Forces deliberately …
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By Thane Rosenbaum
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4/10/24
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Beware the Ides of March. Not that Ides! This past Ides of March — give or take a few days.
The infamy of that earlier Ides lives on, 2,068 years later, with a similar drama of betrayal, …
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By Thane Rosenbaum
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4/3/24
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The tale I’m about to tell started out as a feel-good movie of the week and ended up as a two-hanky tearjerker of bitterness and betrayal. From solidarity to the nearly unsalvageable, within a …
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By Thane Rosenbaum
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3/27/24
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If you’re a Jew looking for sympathy in these sucker-punch days of hyper-antisemitism, find a way to transport yourself back to the early 1990s, a time when Holocaust memory — …
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By Thane Rosenbaum
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1/17/24
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The world feels like it’s on fire. If the Jewish state was not at center stage, however, there would not have been any smoke.
Israel’s retaliation in defense of its sovereignty, and …
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By Thane Rosenbaum
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1/10/24
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