Samuel J. Hyde

Third Worldism was not, at its root, a movement of the Third World. It was a dream of the West, a mirror into which it peered and glimpsed both its sins and its fantasies of redemption.

I offer you instead the story of a single family. That is all I can give you: not a theory of Syria nor a prediction of what is to come, but the voice of one of its daughters.

The missiles fall, and the headlines speak of strategy, of retaliation, of deterrence. But beneath the headlines, there is the quiet, stubborn pulse of human life.

If one truly cares about the Palestinian people – even if that’s all one cares about – a few questions must be asked: Free from what?

For some on the Left, Iran, a theocratic regime that hangs women, executes homosexuals, is a symbol of resistance against Israel, against America, against 'Western hegemony.'

Jews may not have had a state, but for centuries they had been practicing community politics in ways that closely resemble modern elective democracies.

Liberals are more concerned with “Islamophobia” than with the content of Islamist doctrine. It is they who are guilty of a profound failure of empathy.

Perhaps Abu Mohammed al-Julani will defy the grim precedent, maybe he will break away from Salafi jihadism and break the cycle that has consumed countless others.

These fundamentalist Jewish groups twist Jewish tradition into an abominable chimera, mixing biblical literalism, ethno-nationalism, and theological obsessions similar Evangelical Christians.

If the secular front in Israel wants to gain increased political support, it will need to begin not by stating what it is, but by defining who it is.