Book Reviews

In May of this year, a New York Times explainer on Islamic Jihad described the terrorist group as: “founded in the 1980s in the Gaza Strip to fight the Israeli occupation.” The article allowed that Iran funds Islamic Jihad and…

American Jews were very fortunate in North America to be welcomed by societies with strong liberal streaks. The U.S. and Canada offered freedom, respect, and opportunity beyond what had been available to Jews in their European points of origin. Not…

“Judenfeindschaft kann man nicht ohne die Macht der Sprachgewalt erklären und bekämpfen.” Diese fundamentale Einsicht hat die Kognitionswissenschaftlerin und Antisemitismusforscherin Monika Schwarz-Friesel in ihrem neuen Buch ” Toxische Sprache und geistige Gewalt, Wie judenfeindliche Denk- und Gefühlsmuster seit Jahrhunderten unsere…

In 2017, a controversy embroiled Bret Weinstein, a self-described liberal, white professor at Evergreen State College, who was vilified by students when he refused to stay off campus on the School’s Day of Absence, an annual event during which Evergreen’s…

Saul Bellow once remarked that what America meant was the “universal eligibility to be noble.” He thus merged the ancient love of what’s best by nature, in light of eternity, with the modern love of equality, illumined by the flickering…

Mit “Politischer Islam, Stresstest für Deutschland” (2019) hat Susanne Schröter, die Leiterin des Frankfurter Forschungszentrums “Globaler Islam” und Mitglied des SPME-Germany, ein wichtiges Buch geschrieben. Es dürfte die erste kritische Auseinandersetzung mit der hiesigen islamistischen Verbände- und Vereinslandschaft im akademischen…

At Connecticut College, in the Spring of 2015, Andrew Pessin, a professor of philosophy was grossly mistreated. He was grossly mistreated by student and faculty activists, by faculty members who went along with the activists, and by Connecticut College’s administration,…

Bari Weiss, author of How to Fight Anti-Semitism ( Crown, 2019), is a seasoned writer. She learned her trade at Tablet, the Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times. How to… reads like a workbook manual interspersed with enough stories, anecdotes, and taste of…

In a survey of American Jews conducted this year, only 62% agreed that “caring about Israel is a very important part of my being a Jew.” How seriously one should take this is hard to say. It’s a low number,…

Dieses Buch, das einen fundierten Fundus an Informationen zum Gesamtkomplex „Nahostkoflikt“ von 1916 bis heute bietet, sollte eine Pflichtlektüre für jeden sein, der sich mit dem Nahen Osten und der Geschichte Israels befasst. Das Zitat von Abba Eban, dem ersten…