Advertisements In the latest edition of the Cutting Through newsletter, I look at the radical and antisemitic response of self-styled “Jewish creatives” who excoriate Jonathan Glazer for daring to explain that his message about the Holocaust was universal and that his Jewish identity demands that he objects to the slaughterContinue Reading
Advertisements In the latest edition of the Cutting Through newsletter, I take on three examples of so-called “liberal Zionists” who willfully misled their readers about Jonathan Glazer’s speech at the Oscars. Glazer spoke out against dehumanization, and specifically pointed to BOTH the October 7 attacks and the genocide in GazaContinue Reading
Advertisements While most eyes have been on Joe Biden’s upcoming trip to Israel and Saudi Arabia, the US Special Envoy for Antisemitism, Deborah Lipstadt, made her own sojourn to those lands. She claims that the two trips are not connected, but that claim is obviously either a lie or theContinue Reading
Advertisements Over at Medium, I’ve published a piece on the controversy around Whoopi Goldberg’s regrettable statements and the conversation it has generated. I hope you’ll read it and share. I’d love to hear what you think, so feel free to comment.Continue Reading
In the film The Lion in Winter, a young Anthony Hopkins, playing Richard the Lionheart, said “I never heard a corpse ask how it got so cold.” In the end, it is bloody, ongoing conflicts, not merely the use of certain weapons in them, that must be stopped or at least stemmed. International law and the United Nations charter provide ways to do that. It’s time we paid attention to fixing the politics that prevents them from doing so.Continue Reading
