
Beware: the Durban Delirium Trumped the Essential Lessons of 9/11
This ideological pogrom eerily mapped out the antizionism mania that has now hit America’s shores, using the noble fights against racism, colonialism and oppression for ignoble ends.

This ideological pogrom eerily mapped out the antizionism mania that has now hit America’s shores, using the noble fights against racism, colonialism and oppression for ignoble ends.

Presidential security machinations, like presidential vacation time and decorating budgets, often serve as partisan Rorschach tests: rivals mock, while supporters defend.

Because antizionists like El-Sayed interweave their antizionism with anti-Americanism and antisemitism, every self-respecting American Jew should work even harder to oppose him.

These are educational institutions. But most universities have allowed bureaucrats – in Washington and on campus – to hijack what could be “teachable moments.”

Today, for Americans and Jews, the Battle of Little Big Horn has relevance and resonance.

Slinging criticism without responsibility and spewing all complaints all the time, is barn-burning, not bridge-building.

In their century-long struggle against Zionism, the Palestinian national movement has embraced and updated this revolting mix of often sexually-charged blood libels and barbaric sex crimes. October 7, and these latest lies, are the culmination of this growing sexual obsession and glorification of gendered violence against the Jews.

Amid so much media noise, with social media creating Algorithmic Radicals, spiraling deeper and deeper into violence-inducing echo chambers, many believe the shriller the better. But words matter – and tone matters too.

News Item: Ten Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) students recently protested the granting of an honorary doctorate to Israel’s President Yitzhak Herzog.

Israel’s 78th Independence Day is an opportunity to defy this political moment and think eternally, existentially, and about your identity.