Published on Tablet Where does American Jewry stand on the Obama administration’s admittance of 10,801 Syrian refugees to the United States in fiscal year 2016? A poll hasn’t been conducted, ostensibly because the mere conception of one would convey an improper presumption that Jews, by virtue of being Jews, should feel differently than other Americans about…
Activists Go Head-to-Head at George Mason University [TABLET] Pro-Israel organizations have the grit to fight back.
Published on Tablet Over the weekend, National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP), which coordinates more than 160 chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), held its sixth annual conference just outside the nation’s capital at George Mason University (GMU), Virginia’s largest public research university. The conference was hosted by George Mason University Students Against…
The Problem with the “Jewish Vote” [LA TIMES] Jewish Americans don't vote with Israel in mind, they vote as liberals.
Published in The Los Angeles Times Although Jewish Americans represent just 2% of the population, politicians — and would-be politicians — have long considered the “Jewish vote” a prize worth pursuing. That’s actually not irrational. Jews contribute a disproportionate amount of money to political candidates and causes; many Jews live in the swing states of Florida…
Lest We Forget [WEEKLY STANDARD] It's time to consider the merit of immoral memorials.
Published in The Weekly Standard Sherrod Brown was one of nine senators who addressed a luncheon on May 25 celebrating Jewish American Heritage Month. He spent the majority of his time at the podium, not surprisingly and not unlike most of his colleagues, extolling the American Jewish community for its contributions to the civil rights movement…
Hillary and the Democratic Party’s Dove Problem [NATIONAL INTEREST] This election is shifting the fault lines on war and peace.
Published on The National Interest In foreign policy, it’s starting to look a lot like 1992 again. That was the election year a number of second-wave neoconservatives contemplated casting votes for then governor Bill Clinton. A few did actually end up crossing party lines—once again, that is. But today, it doesn’t bode well for Secretary Hillary…
To the Founders, “All Men” Meant All Women Too [WEEKLY STANDARD] Despite what Meryl Streep and Cory Booker have to say.
Published on The Weekly Standard “Within the context of the times it is clear that ‘all men’ was a euphemism for ‘humanity,’ and thus those people, such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Abraham Lincoln, and Martin Luther King, who used the Declaration of Independence to demand equality for African Americans and women seized the historical as well…
Will the Democrats’ Philadelphia Love-Fest Last? [NATIONAL INTEREST] Hammering away at compassion and unity might not work in November.
Published on The National Interest For weeks, the vanguard of the media confidently predicted that the Democrats’ nominating gathering in Philadelphia—Greek for “brotherly love”—would be “the quiet convention.” Yes, both political parties to an extent have been divided this campaign between grassroots activists and Establishment praetorians. But journalists and pundits were going to ensure it was…
Who Are the Ex-Conservatives? [AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE] Perhaps it is easier to move right than left.
Published on The American Conservative The May/June issue of The American Conservative featured Jonathan Bronitsky’s review of Daniel Oppenheimer’s new book Exit Right: The People Who Left the Left and Reshaped the American Century. This is the second installment in a series of articles responding to the original review. Be sure not to miss Oppenheimer’s “Why…
Review: “Trouble in the Tribe,” by Dov Waxman [NATIONAL INTEREST] The price of assimilation has been Jewish identity.
Published in The National Interest On April 19, three days before this year’s start of Passover, the Jewish holiday celebrating the Israelites’ exodus from bondage in ancient Egypt, six protestors were arrested at the Boston office of AIPAC, “America’s pro-Israel lobby.” They had chained themselves to a mock Seder table. Their group, IfNotNow, claims to “seek…
The Left’s PC Hypocrisy on Islam [NATIONAL INTEREST] Muslims can speak for themselves.
Published on The National Interest Partisans of the Left compulsively claim President George W. Bush was an imbecile who couldn’t be trusted on anything. If they’re right, all of us must reflexively and wholly refute every statement he ever made. It would seem very reasonable, then, to first dispense with a sweeping pronouncement on one of…