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How Progressives Belittle Violence Against Jews
The conversation about Jews and “privilege” is finally upon us. Anti-Semitism in word and deed has been increasing in frequency and intensity for over a decade. That’s been true especially in Europe,...
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The Steven Sotloff Story: How a Freelancer's Heaven Turned Into Hell
On July 15, 2013, Steven Sotloff arrived in Israel, a place he once called home. He planned on spending a week there, beginning with the wedding of his former roommate Benny Scholder, before heading...
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Cash for Sewing Machines
The “Cash for Clunkers” concept is nothing new, technology historian Edward Tenner wrote the other day in blog post for The Atlantic. It was an idea employed already a century and half ago by Isaac...
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Gore Vidal: Polanski Is a Persecuted Jew
So why is Roman Polanski in a Swiss prison cell? To hear author, intellectual, and seasoned provocateur Gore Vidal tell it, the famed director’s troubles have little to do with having drugged and raped...
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Report: NYT J’lem Chief Has Son in IDF
Has the son of Ethan Bronner—the New York Times’s current Israel beat reporter—enlisted in the Israeli military? (And, if so, would that constitute an unacceptable conflict of interest for Bronner?) An...
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Mainstreaming Hate
One reason for the surge of public criticism of Israel over the last decade is the increasing interest of American media consumers in the Middle East as U.S. involvement in the region deepened after...
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Playing With Fire
Last week this column argued that major media organizations were mainstreaming the opinions of anti-Semitic commenters in the hopes of boosting traffic on their websites. Some of my critics mistakenly...
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‘Atlantic’ Reports Likelihood of Israeli Attack
In the September Atlantic’s cover story, Tablet Magazine contributing editor Jeffrey Goldberg reports, “A consensus has emerged that there is a better than 50 percent chance that Israel will launch a...
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Bomb Bomb Bomb, Bomb Bomb Iran?
Since contributing editor Jeffrey Goldberg’s blockbuster Atlantic report on the prospect of Israel (or, to a lesser degree of likelihood, America) bombing Iran’s nuclear facilities dropped yesterday...
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‘I Learned A Lot From My Father’s Lawyer’
On next week’s Vox Tablet podcast, staff writer Marc Tracy discusses the upcoming NFL season with former football writer Ray Gustini (now at The Atlantic Wire). Specifically, they figure out how many...
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Sundown: Write Your Own Punch-Line
• Abraham Foxman calls for civility in public discourse. [HuffPo] • Hezbollah head advocates a nuclear reactor in Lebanon. Sure, why not? [Now Lebanon]Continue reading "" at...
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Framed
When John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt’s The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy was published in 2007, it launched a thousand essays and op-eds, upset many Jewish readers, and sold a very...
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Ending the Mindset Is Hard
Reading “The Obama Doctrine,” the Atlantic’s long piece on President Barack Obama’s foreign policy, as told to journalist Jeffrey Goldberg in a series of interviews, I kept flashing back to that moment...
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Inaugural Distress
This week on Unorthodox: Bernie Madoff’s prison hot-chocolate scheme. We’ve got two Jewish guests this week. Our first guest is a return visitor: Rosie Gray, who covered the election for BuzzFeed and...
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