History Moves On

From Kevin Williamson at The Dispatch – Left Behind by History- probably firewalled and I highly recommend a subscriptiion. The Palestinian people have legitimate grievances, and I myself have tried my very best to give a damn about them. But you only get to...

When Woke Broke

“Anyone who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”- Voltaire When Generals Eisenhower and Montgomery found the death camps in Germany, they ordered crews to film the piles of bodies and emaciated survivors, fearing otherwise no one would...

Marxian Anti-Semitism

From The Marxian Roots of Campus Anti-Semitism by Barton Swaim in The Wall Street Journal, 10/13/23: That anti-Israel protests erupted on elite campuses this week—not after the accidental killing of a Palestinian demonstrator but after the systematic murder of at...

Thoughts on October 7

First, I was shocked at the surprise, the scale, intelligence lapse, and the ingenuity of the invaders. Soon I was enraged at the savagery. Attacks on civilians is nothing new to Israelis, but the brutal murders of the most vulnerable children and elderly changes our...

DEI and Anti-Semitism

From Commentary Magazine, Campus Diversity Is Campus Jew-Hatred by Seth Mandel: By every metric, American Jewish campus life is a shadow of what it once was. The City University of New York is losing the last two Jewish members of its 80-member senior leadership...

Motivating Madness or Extremism

Kevin Williams on the attack on the Colleyville, Texas synagogue, Ordinary Madness or Political Extremism? The connection between madness and extremism runs both ways. Madmen are attracted to extremism, and almost every political movement an inch outside the...