Author: David Rutman

Not many people know that the Memphis hotel where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968 is now the home of the National Civil Rights Museum. In describing King’s legacy, the museum highlights his universal and unifying appeal: “A leader of all people, Dr. King never chose fear, but always chose courage and […]

Long-simmering antisemitism on the American Right has erupted into plain view. Nick Fuentes says that Jews control the media and cannot be part of Western civilization because they are not Christian. Candace Owens believes that Israel killed President John F. Kennedy and Charlie Kirk. Tucker Carlson charges that the Jews want to replace the white […]

This Monday is MLK Day, a national holiday to honor one of our great heroes, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. But for a group of public schoolteachers in New York City, “NYC Educators for Palestine,” Monday will be a day for Palestinian propaganda, as they will host a “Palestine Teach-In.” The group has accused Israel […]

Suddenly, it looks like it’s over. The butchers of Tehran are winning. The uprising that “felt different this time,” with millions of courageous Iranians marching for their freedom and an end to their oppression, feels like a memory. As The New York Times reported on Friday: “A heavy police presence and deadly crackdowns on protesters […]

There have already been several documentaries and one television series about the events of Oct. 7, 2023. Now, there is also a feature film, “12 Hours in October,” directed by Danny A. Abeckaser. The film portrays the horrors of that day through the perspectives of several fictional characters as they face the terror and chaos […]

  “They let us burn.” The phrase appeared across black T-shirts handed out at a rally in Pacific Palisades on Jan. 7, marking one year since the Palisades Fire tore through the community. The rally, titled “They Let Us Burn,” was organized by Jeremy Padawer, a Pacific Palisades resident and toy industry executive. Addressing a […]

I’m sure State Senator Scott Wiener felt he was being courageous when he announced on Sunday that Israel committed a “genocide” in Gaza. A few days earlier, Wiener, who is running for Nancy Pelosi’s congressional seat, had declined to make that accusation during the first candidates forum, drawing heavy jeers from the audience who shouted, […]

Who would ever have guessed that frigid Minneapolis, situated in America’s great north, would become the battleground for the kind of rising national temperature that in 1861 precipitated a civil war? Minneapolis may become the new Antietam. The city, after all, is where rioting ensued after the death of George Floyd in 2020. And this […]