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At times, says Zvi Elpeleg, the editor of Amin al-Husaini’s texts in his most recent book Through the Eyes of the Mufti—which was published by the Egyptian newspaper Al-Misri in 1954, also available in a book edition of 1957–“I even…
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Zionism has always had two facets since the end of the 19th century: Restoration and Resurrection on the one hand and Relief and Rescue on the other. The former was institutionalized in the First Zionist Assembly with Theodore Hertzl’s call…
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Jews who find a steady diet of books about the antisemitism of England’s learned (and also not so learned) classes more unpleasant than exploratory surgery will find a welcome antidote in Gertrude Himmelfarb’s learned, scintillating, and (mostly) optimistic historical essay…
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Goldstone Reconsidered is a collection of essays highlighting and analyzing the multiple defects and deficiencies found in the September 2009 Goldstone Report (to the United Nations Human Rights Council) relating to Israel’s “Operation Cast Lead” in Gaza. The book’s eleven…
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Nach dem 9. September 2001 begann die Tendenz, Kritik am politischen Islam in Europa zu unterbinden. Muslimischen Vereinigungen gelang es mit staatlicher und medialer Unterstützung mit der Schaffung des Kampfbegriffes „Islamophobie“ davon abzulenken, dass Antisemitismus nicht nur in den arabischen…
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Why has the position of Jews at American universities deteriorated in the past decade and what can be done about it? Understanding the history of this dilemma requires going back a number of years. In 2003 the social commentator Stanley…
read moreWho Is Uri Avnery? Uri Avnery, octogenarian icon of Israel’s cultural and political left, is indeed a worthy subject of a serious study. Better known in Europe than in the United States, Avnery has been active in Israel’s political scene…
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“I am in Norway on business for my product and written on a wall I read, ‘Down with Israel.’ I think, ‘What did Israel ever do to Norway?’ I know Israel is a terrible country, but after all, there are…
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Adolf Eichmann was put on trial fifty years ago on April 11, 1961, almost one year after he was kidnapped in Argentina and secretly transported to Israel. In her new book, The Eichmann Trial, Deborah Lipstadt recounts some of her…
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Moshe Zuckermann, an Israeli historian and one of the “new historians,” deals in this book with the question whether criticising Israel is anti-Semitic. According to him, those who identify with the State of Israel use the accusation of anti-Semitism uncritically…
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