Michael Barnett
By Michael Barnett
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Opinion The Real Reason Netanyahu Gave Cover To Holocaust Deniers
Six months ago Poland passed a controversial law intended to criminalize and silence discussions of Poland’s role in the Holocaust. Anyone who suggested that Poland as a nation had blood on its hands for the genocide of the Jews could be charged, arrested, and imprisoned for libel. Outraged, Holocaust survivors, scholars, public intellectuals, and governments…
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Opinion A Value Divide
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s last few days of campaigning impressed Israeli Jews and American Jews alike, but in quite different ways. According to most accounts, Netanyahu’s pledge of no Palestinian state under his watch, coupled with his call to Israeli Jews to run to the ballot boxes to counteract the drove of Arab Israeli voters…
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