In the West, we’re taught that Hitler is the embodiment of all evil, but it’s more complicated than that, isn’t it? The more I read about Hitler, the more convinced I am that his views about the Versailles Treaty were fairly commonplace among Germans living at the time. It seems to me that if Hitler…
No self-respecting state would ever sell its soul for a few shekels by letting foreign guides break a very sensitive law that was promulgated in defense of historical truth and get away with it scot-free. Everyone is equal in the eyes of the law, and being an Israeli Jew doesn’t make anyone an exception. Israeli…
French eighteenth century journalist and propagandist Jacques Mallet du Pan coined the adage that “A l’exemple de Saturne, la révolution dévore ses enfants,” frequently translated as “Like Saturn, the Revolution devours its own children.” Saturn was a Greek and Roman god who famously was depicted as eating his own children, though the attribution was more…
There has been major pushback against a Texas state education official who said that if schools are adhering to a new state law that mandates teaching alternative points of view on controversial issues having a course and a book on the holocaust, for example, would suggest providing material that reflects other interpretations of that historical…
Israel seems upset by a new Polish law that sets a 30-year deadline for Jews to recover seized property. The legislation is yet to be approved by Poland’s senate, yet Israeli officials already refer to it as the “Holocaust law.” They insist that it is ‘immoral’ and ‘a disgrace.’ Last week Israeli Minister of Foreign…
U.S. politics are already reeling from the events of January 6, and now the Biden administration is weakening them all the more. Sometimes democracies die from corruption, fascism, or a military coup. But other times it succumbs to terminal stupidity. An example of how this works occurred on Feb. 2 when the State Department announced…
