The Debate Link

Robert Fisk is deeply frustrated that his fellow journalists haven't figured out how to blame ISIS on Israel and the West yet. That...

The Washington Post has a fascinating interview up with Amna Farooqi, who just was elected head of J Street U (the organization's campu...

Alison Chabloz, a Scottish artist has made some headlines by questioning the existence of Nazi gas chambers and performing the anti-Semitic...

Tablet has an interesting profile up on Delphine Horvilleur , a prominent French Rabbi (prominent both for her own sake as powerful voice fo...

Given that three of my last eight posts have been about the question of anti-Semitism as part of the Iran deal debate, it may surprise yo...

Tablet Magazine has a sternly-worded editorial which concludes as follows: We do not accept the idea that Senator Schumer or anyone else ...

I am sad to report that Yale Law Professor Robert "Bo" Burt has passed away at age 76 . I never met Bo personally, but we did get ...

Conspiracy theories are a funny thing. They often start with a small mistake -- an implausible inference elevated to obvious truth, an unrem...

There's an old joke amongst lawyers about the "perfect defense argument". It's a series of "in the alternative" ...

Yesterday, extremist Jewish terrorists attacked the Palestinian village of Duma, killing a one-year old child and seriously injuring members...

I endorse, 100%, the following posts regarding the "mob justice" surrounding a Minnesota dentist who killed a protected Lion in Zi...

In an ideal world, one of the nice things about being Jewish is that one would not have to answer the impossibly anachronistic historical th...

Lee Smith has an utterly dreadful piece in Tablet claiming that Barack Obama employed anti-Semitic "dog whistles" in his intervie...

The National Review's Kevin Williamson , on Vermont Senator and presidential candidate Bernie Sanders: He is, in fact, leading a nationa...

Charles Jacobs is the founder of "Americans for Peace and Tolerance" -- one those Orwell-inspired groups which exists to foster re...

Yesterday, the ICC pre-trial chamber by a 2-1 vote ordered the ICC prosecutor to reconsider its decision to close its investigation into th...

Winston Churchill had a famous line about despots who ride about "on tigers from which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getti...

If this doesn't encapsulate the "white-but-not-quite" racial status of American Jews, I don't know what does: "Mr. C...

On Facebook , I noted that I was working hard to not have an opinion on the Iran deal, because I knew nothing about it and shouldn't com...

Almost ten years ago (wow!) I remarked on a comment by a Hamas leader who attributed some sinister motives to the blue stripes on the Israe...