Ron DeSantis, the Republican governor of Florida, has been touted as a possible candidate for his party’s 2024 presidential nomination. Judging by a recent incident in the sunshine state, he should definitely be removed from the list of contenders. The reason is clear. On January 29 and 30, 15 to 20 neo-Nazis gathered on a […]
I cringed after reading Whoopi Goldberg’s recent remarks about the Holocaust, but I also felt sorry and embarrassed for her. Appearing on the ABC talk show The View on January 31, the American actress and comedian claimed the Holocaust was about “man’s inhumanity to man” and “not about race.” Goldberg made these utterly inane observations […]
The Freedom Convoy — a motley coalition of disaffected truckers, hardcore conservatives and neo-Nazi malcontents vying for headlines on these freezing days in January — is a misguided exercise in futility. Hordes of truck drivers from Alberta and points westward have descended on Parliament Hill in Ottawa in the past few days to protest a […]
The U.S. bookstore chain Barnes & Noble recently removed The Protocols of the Elders of Zion — a noxious antisemitic tract fabricated by czarist Russia — from its online site following a flood of complaints. The book, an outright forgery describing a diabolical plan by a Jewish cabal to take over the world, was designed to […]
A fairly significant event took place in Cairo on January 24, when close to 50 people attended a ceremony commemorating International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which is being observed today to commemorate the Red Army’s liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp in Poland. The gathering, the first of its kind in Egypt, was held at a […]
On January 5, an American high-tech entrepreneur named Dave Bateman sent an inflammatory e-mail to 50 friends and acquaintances during which he blasted coronavirus vaccines. An anti-vaxxer, Bateman acknowledged that his message “sounds bonkers.” Little did he realize how crazy and deranged it really was. The pathologically twisted missive would cost him his job. In his […]
A year ago today, a mob stormed Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., violating the seat of American democracy in a brazen, unprecedented attempt to nullify the results of the 2020 U.S. presidential election. President Donald Trump, having falsely claimed that his Democratic opponent, Joe Biden, had stolen the election from him, exhorted his followers to […]
Donald Trump, the ex-U.S. president, thinks he has a licence to spew nonsense. From his mouth of late have gushed out an astonishing number of statements divorced from reality. Last week, he lambasted Benjamin Netanyahu, the former Israeli prime minister, as an ingrate. Netanyahu offended Trump because he was performing his duty. He had the […]
Israel should exercise the greatest of caution and discretion as tensions between Russia and Ukraine grow over their increasingly bitter border dispute. Under no circumstances should Israel allow itself to be harpooned into this potentially destabilizing and dangerous conflict currently simmering in eastern Ukraine. Ukraine, a former republic of the now-defunct Soviet Union, declared independence […]
Donald Trump has bared his soul in a series of remarkably candid interviews with the Israeli journalist Barak Ravid. Sounding a lot like a spurned lover, the ex-U.S. president blasted Benjamin Netanyahu, the former Israeli prime minister, with whom he forged a close political relationship. Still smarting from his resounding defeat at the hands of […]