Author: David Rutman

Over the past few weeks I’ve witnessed a fascinating phenomenon: The closer we get to Election Day, the more those on the fringe deploy the word “Nazis” to serve their own agenda. Nazis, fascism, Hitler, genocide—all words hijacked and robbed of their meaning, all disconnected from their reality, un-fashioned and re-fashioned to serve a political […]

Wikipedia editors have officially added “Gaza genocide” to the “List of genocides” Wikipedia article following a discussion launched over the summer. The list itself begins with “Gaza genocide,” where it states: “Israel has been accused by experts, governments, U.N. agencies and non-governmental organizations of carrying out a genocide against the Palestinian population during its invasion and bombing of Gaza during the ongoing Israel […]

As the clock winds down to Tuesday night when we will presumably learn who will be our next president, it’s worth taking a moment to reflect on a political truth that is relevant regardless of who wins. And few things are more relevant these days than the long-term erosion of the political center in America. […]

More than 1,000 prominent figures from literature and entertainment have signed an open letter organized by the nonprofit Creative Community for Peace (CCFP), to oppose boycotts “of Israeli and Jewish writers, publishers, authors, book festivals, and literary agencies, along with those who support, work with, or platform them.” The signatories include Nobel laureates, Pulitzer Prize […]

Do they think we’re stupid? Do they think they can single out only one country in the world for an artistic boycott and get away with it? Maybe they’ve concluded that when that country is the Jewish state, they can never get in trouble. And maybe they’re right. How else to explain the idiotic temper […]