The Debate Link

Rep. Steve King (R-IA) : Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis is a latter-day Rosa Parks. Kim Davis : Don't compare me to that layabout. Sh...

Shorter Rand Paul : The struggles of Native Americans began when we took their land. In conclusion, we should abolish Native American sovere...

I've been busy basking in the glow of my status as a big magazine contributor. That means that I haven't had as much time to do reg...

I want to thank the Tablet editors for hosting my posts on the  threat partisanization poses  to the pro-Israel consensus and  what can be ...

AIPAC chief Howard Kohr, who spearheaded the failed push to block the Iran Deal in Congress, visits a Maryland synagogue : Kohr’s final app...

My follow-up column is now up on Tablet . It gives three recommendations to the pro-Israel movement to avoid a partisan schism where "p...

A few months I posted, and then took down, a draft essay entitled Playing with Cards: Discrimination Claims and the Charge of Bad Faith . It...

The first of a two-part series I wrote has been posted on Tablet . It explains the social psychology of "pro-Israel", the incentiv...

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...