By: The Editors – nationalreview.com – April 22, 2024 hings finally reached a breaking point on Columbia University’s campus late last week. There, the implicitly antisemitic protests that have disrupted America’s college campuses since the October 7 massacre evolved into something more explicit. At long last, Columbia’s administrators had enough. The pushback appeared to shock the demonstrators who resolved to...

“Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it.” — George Santayana

With one exception, nothing about Oct. 7 surprised me. The one exception was Israel’s unpreparedness.

As Hamas goes, so with it go many of the following related Western pretensions. The Passions of 9/11, Redux It has been 22 years since we saw crowds throughout the Middle East celebrating the murder…

“In every generation they arise to annihilate us.” That statement appears in the Haggadah, the book read from at the Passover Seder. The book is about 1,000 years old; the statement is more than 2,000 years old.

By: Charles C. W. Cooke – nationalreview.com – October 10,2023 Well-adjusted people do not learn of the largest single instance of antisemitic butchery since the Holocaust and muse about how intersectional the dead might have been. As is increasingly common in our remorselessly overcomplicated age, the coverage of Hamas’s extraordinarily brutal incursion into the nation of Israel has been sliced...

By: Becket Adams – nationalreview.com – October 15, 2023 After years of condemning ‘bothsidesism’ in Trump coverage, the press falls back on the approach to cover the slaughter of more than 1,300 people in Israel. The free press in the West, which has spent the past seven years warning of the dangers of “both sides” news coverage, insists now that there...

By: Charles C. W. Cooke – nationalreview.com – October 10, 2023 As is increasingly common in our remorselessly overcomplicated age, the coverage of Hamas’s extraordinarily brutal incursion into the nation of Israel has been sliced and diced along a whole host of convoluted lines. When describing the various players, commentators have set them against a series of ideological axes: Left...

“We see the signs and this is very, very troubling,” a high-ranking Israeli commander tells Newsweek. Source: Israel Worries U.S. Weapons for Ukraine Are Ending Up in Iran’s Hands

After Hamas launched the biggest attack on Israel in years, nearly 1,600 have been killed and thousands more wounded with a barrage of rockets as gunfights are reported in Sderot and other cities in southern Israel.