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Magnus TorénThe Times of Israel (Blogs) |
There is a sentence I keep trying to write, and every version sounds worse than the last. It begins: “Bill Maher was brave to…” The rest does...
I have always felt uneasy about demonstrations. Not because protest is illegitimate — sometimes it is necessary — but because crowds possess their...
When books like Genius and Anxiety and Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor are treated as ideological offenses, something deeper than disagreement is...
In which the children of the comfortable discover theft, murder, and the working class — in that order Let us begin with the lemons. Four lemons....
I have to ask something that should not be controversial, but somehow is. If we take the lower end of the estimates—around 4,000 Iranians killed...
I am not a neutral observer. I’ve spent time in enough of these places—in cafés in Hebron, Ramallah, Diyarbakır, and in the streets of Jerusalem...
Many say please don’t pay attention to Glen Greenwald and Tucker Carlson. That is a reasonable instinct. But Tucker Carlson’s audience is...
Friday afternoon my wife Mary Lu, who is recovering from a serious stroke, fell. She was sitting on the edge of her bed in the barn (our house is...