Prelude to Genocide: Remembering the Days Before August 2014 and the Yazidi Genocide
In June 2014 ISIS attacked Camp Speicher in Iraq. The group captured more than 1,000 mostly Shi’ite cadets and systematically murdered them.
A Month of Multiculturalism in France: June 2018
Cultural anti-Judaism from the Maghreb has been imported in the luggage of some immigrants.
The End of the Democratic Dream
An Arab online newspaper asked its readers: “Do you believe equitable democracy can exist in Arab states?” An overwhelming said no.
A Glimpse of Europe’s True Face
Due to an unusual conflation of events, over the past two weeks we’ve caught a rare glimpse of the face of European foreign policy. We shouldn’t let it pass unremarked.
“Widespread Self-Righteousness”
What happened to the Europe Americans loved to love? Ancient and modern, “like us” but not too much, clean, good food, low-crime, democratic, and friendly. Was it ever so?
The Netherlands Approves Burqa Ban
The Dutch Senate has approved a law that bans the wearing of “face-covering clothing” in public buildings, including hospitals, schools and government offices, as well as on public transportation.
Europe: Ramadan Roundup, 2018
Muslims across Europe are marking the end of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month, which in 2018 was observed between May 17 and June 15, in accordance with the Islamic lunar calendar.
Customizing American and European Holocaust Education
The first seminar, which concluded on June 7 in Jackson, Miss., compared the exclusionary policies of Nazi Germany with the Jim Crow laws operating during the same time period in the United States.
Between Kim and Qom: Iran and North Korea
The Trump-Kim summit raises more questions than it has yet been able to answer. And the Iranians await those answers with bated breath because a very short rope connects Tehran to North Korea.
Who Sanctions Russia? Not Germany
President Trump is taking flak for having introduced a subject to the G-7 meeting that our European friends wanted to keep under the table. Russia.