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  / In Israel, the Noble vs. The Ugly / / Nicholas Kristoff / / / / Israel goes out of its way to display its ugliest side to the world by tearing down Palestinian homes or allowing rapacious settlers to steal Palestinian land. / / / Yet there’s also another Israel as well, one that I mightily admire. This is the democracy that tolerates a far greater range of opinions than America. It’s a citadel of civil society. And, crazily, it’s the place where some of the most courageous and effective voices on behalf of oppressed Palestinians belong to Israeli rabbis..

"Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own." / / / "Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief."

The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, filmmaker, novelist, and essayist offers a controversial look at anti-Semitism in modern life, examining the potentially destructive ways in which Jews themselves look for meaning and truth anywhere--in politics, other religions, and in mindless entertainment--but knee jerk never in Judaism itself. Mamet goes on to analyze what happens when Jews abandon loyalty to their religion and tradition in order, as he sees it, to find acceptance in Israel-bashing liberal society. Unlike more familiar defenses of Israel that are full of facts, Mamet locks onto what..

David M. Weinberg takes a candid look at the Saudi Kingdom's diplomacy concerning Israel. The kingdoms duplicitous nature of its current stance and the history and evolution of its anti-Israel positions then and now.

It is now a reflexive cliche for people -- on both the right and left, both in and outside of politics -- to blame the "Israel lobby" or, in more insidious instances, the "Lobby" (capital "L" included) for silencing discussion about Israel and numerous other issues in political life. This claim goes hand-in-hand with the equally tendentious claim that critics of Israel are also silenced by accusations of anti-Semitism.The language used in this kind of maneuvering reveals much. First, that the Israel lobby is spoken about as if it is somehow separate and unique from all of the other lobbies..

Martial arts experts from formalistic styles like karate to raw brawling approaches like MMA teach that a fight turns into a lynch when the victim-to-be starts to cower and withdraw. The aggressors, for whatever reason, are emboldened by the victim's stance of helplessness and so the lynch begins.With regard to Israel, this is exactly what has happened at the UN under the guise of civil, diplomatic and, of all things, democratic discourse. In fact, the UN's attitude and behavior towards Israel has been, at best, none of these things and, more likely, an embodiment of the antitheses of..

Part history, part memoir, "Constantine's Sword" by novelist James Carroll traces the record of anti-Semitism and anti-Judaism in the Catholic Church, suggesting that centuries of hostility culminated in the Holocaust. Carroll also traces the development of his own thinking about Judaism: as a Catholic seminarian, he knew no Jews and little about Judaism, except what he learned in classrooms, which he relates as learnig that Judaism had been superceded by Christ's new covenant.