Book Reviews

O Brave New (Repaired) World

Jonathan Neumann’s new book To Heal the World?: How the Jewish Left Corrupts Judaism and Endangers Israel is a scathing analysis of the pseudo-religion of “tikkun olam” — the idea of “repairing,” “fixing,” or “healing” the world. Its unifying thesis is that the concept has…

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Manufacturing Falsehoods

Ben-Dror Yemini has devoted a lot of his time as a journalist, first for Maariv and now for Yedioth Ahronoth, to refuting what he regards as false allegations against the Jewish state made by NGOs, academics, and the media. In 2014 he summed up…

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Anti-Zionism on Campus

The demonization and delegitimization of Israel and bigotry directed toward Jewish faculty, staff, and students is increasing at dramatic rates on university and college campuses. In these supposedly intellectual spaces, virulently anti-Israel “scholars” and student-activists connected to, and supportive of, the global…

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A Review of A Half Century of Occupation

In his latest book, A Half Century of Occupation, Gershon Shafir addresses the issue of why the path towards an Israeli-Palestinian peace accord remains blocked. He offers the hypothesis that it is the “colonization” of the “occupied Palestinian territories” (OPT)…

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Review of Peter Longerich’s Wannseekonferenz

In Berlin, am Ufer des idyllischen Grossen Wannsees, liegt die in den letzten Jahrzehnten des 19. Jahrhunderts erschlossene Villenkolonie Alsen, in der sich zahlreiche jüdische und nichtjüdische Großbürger Sommer-Residenzen errichtet haben. Eine dieser prachtvollen Villen mit Geschichte ist die Wannseevilla,…

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