Gimme a break, wouldja? There would be no Hamas in Gaza without the “innocent” citizens of Gaza. They elected them in 2006. There would be no Islamic Jihad in Gaza without the “innocent” citizens of Gaza. They encouraged them. There…
When I watch what’s unfolding in Israel, with Hamas to the southwest and Hezbollah to the north, I think of two books I’ve read. One on Islam I picked up in a Southeast Asia airport — Malaysia and the Club…
Conservatives speak of our intellectual inheritance. As a child may receive his grandfather’s pocket watch or the family farm, so all of us have received as our inheritance the literary and historical treasures of the American experience. America’s literary works,…
The Hamas-ISIS Gaza War has erupted not only in the Middle East but also on Twitter, TikTok, podcasts, and YouTube. Social media language tends to be edgy. In the politically conservative Jewish community where I reside, three conservative commentators have…
It was Simchat Torah in Jerusalem. I had come to celebrate, as I have for 17 years, at the Western Wall. The joyful singing and dancing were suddenly pierced by a siren, then interrupted by an instruction to take shelter….
In this episode of The Spectacle podcast, hosts Melissa Mackenzie and Scott McKay talk about a number of things that circulate around a single theme — namely, that the Western order, which is built around the Judeo-Christian concept that each…
Look at the map below. The Jordan River is on the east (i.e., the right, for those of you who took Woke Geography). The Mediterranean Sea is on the west (i.e., on the left). In between is a land mass….
The below account details atrocities committed by Hamas on Oct. 7 in Israel. The Israeli Consulate in Manhattan recently arranged a highly disturbing but equally important briefing for about 20 journalists. Israel’s diplomats in Gotham presented 40 minutes of raw…
Until I stumbled across a live online feed a few minutes after it started, I wasn’t aware that a “March for Israel,” largely involving young Jews who’d traveled from all over the U.S. and Canada, was going to be held…
