The Screams in the Thicket
There’s a sense of being in the thicket again, screaming while an indifferent — or worse — crowd walks on.
There’s a sense of being in the thicket again, screaming while an indifferent — or worse — crowd walks on.
Fourscore years after history established the legitimacy of Zionism, anti-Zionism is more popular than ever.
My ex-comrades must be gratified that their anti-Zionist vitriol, a niche passion of the far left when I was young, are de rigueur for today’s “progressives.”
This is a death cult, paralleling that of Hamas itself.
“The Light of Seven Days” is a compulsively readable, lyrical first novel by River Adams, a former concert pianist from the former Soviet Union.
The failure to condemn Hamas stretches from universities and unions to the United Nations, which has denounced Israel many times since October 7 but the Palestinian terrorist group, zero.
Decades ago the left declared that Israeli settlers were fascists who could be blown away at will; today all Israelis are deemed fascists who can be blown away at will.
Yaroslavsky has provided an engrossing account of a tumultuous era and the often-subterranean battles that have shaped the city of Los Angeles. He may even give the reader a new appreciation for the work of a politician.
Each can be read as a stand-alone account, but taken together they provide a rich glimpse of Zionism and the complicated and miraculous birth of Israel.
For too many people meaning, justice and a sense of belonging seems attainable only by demonizing and shutting down “enemies.”