Mob Rule in Sweden
Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks was attacked a few days ago during the screening of a short film he made depicting Islamic religious figures in homoerotic positions. He wasn’t hurt badly, but he was...
View ArticleFlotilla Fiasco (UPDATED)
The details of what happened on the boat leading the flotilla trying to enter the Gaza Strip are still coming to light. CNN in the U.S. is speaking about “conflicting accounts,” though the videos it...
View ArticleRE: Speaking of Pro-Israel
The Emergency Committee for Israel responded to the J Street gang’s inquiries late yesterday. Spokesman Michael Goldfarb went through the questions one by one (my comments in brackets): “Always happy...
View ArticleA Natural Experiment in Political Economy
One of the reasons that political science is such an inexact discipline is the difficulty of experimentation. If you want to test, say, a drug, you take a bunch of genetically identical rats, give half...
View ArticleMorning Commentary
Assange arrested in London, but extradition to Sweden “could take months,” reports the BBC. Despite the development, a WikiLeaks spokesman says the site will continue to release cables. During nuclear...
View ArticleWikiLeaks, Treason, and Plot
You can’t make any WikiLeaks-related calendar date fit the Gunpowder Plot ditty: Remember, remember the fifth of November: Gunpowder, treason, and plot! But as yet another historical analogy, the...
View ArticleTerrorists Target “Children, Daughters, and Sisters.”
Reason‘s Michael Moynihan has the scoop on an under-reported terrorist attack that occurred yesterday: Two explosions rocked the downtown shopping district in Stockholm this evening as holiday...
View Article“If It’s Freedom We Hate, Why Didn’t We Attack Sweden?”
That was the question posed by Osama bin Laden in a 2006 speech, in which he blamed the 9/11 attacks on U.S. “imperialist” foreign policy. Apparently, this statement seemed like watertight logic to a...
View ArticleMorning Commentary
It looks like concerns over al-Qaeda wave attacks throughout Europe during the holiday season were justified. Nine men have been charged in connection to a British bomb plot today, just days after...
View ArticleInvesting in Assange
Julian Assange, out of jail on bail in England and last seen, deliciously, complaining that someone was unfairly leaking details of his rape case in Sweden, has now made news for another reason: He has...
View ArticleMorning Commentary
It looks like President Obama has finally found some backbone in his diplomatic spat with Hugo Chavez. The Venezuelan president rejected the U.S.’s choice for ambassador to Caracas and dared Obama to...
View ArticleA Peek into the Plans for ‘Freedom Flotilla II’
An Israeli investigation into last year’s flotilla incident may have just ended, but pro-Palestinian activists are still gearing up their plans for the “Freedom Flotilla II.” The new flotilla will be...
View ArticlePro-Mubarak Demonstrators Attack Reporters
Pro-Mubarak protesters in Egypt may have been following government instructions when they attacked members of the media today, according to the Jerusalem Post. Journalists from Sweden and Israel have...
View ArticleOfficial Swede Tweeter: “Whats the fuzz with Jews.”
The New York Times was right. It’s not very often we say that. Two days ago, the newspaper began a story about the country of Sweden’s official Twitter account with, “Chances of embarrassment are...
View ArticleTime for European Jews to Leave?
Swedish Jewish activist Annika Hernroth-Rothstein admires her country’s long tradition of offering asylum to those who seek refuge from persecution. She just wishes it also applied to Jews....
View ArticlePutin’s NATO Justification
To justify the unjustifiable–Russia’s aggression against Ukraine–Vladimir Putin has concocted a narrative of resentment built upon the myth that the U.S. supposedly humiliated Russia after the end of...
View ArticleIsrael’s Critics and the Next Election
The drumbeat of incitement against Israel in Europe reached a fever pitch this past summer as the war in Gaza raged. But though the anti-Semitic tinged demonstrations in support of a “free Gaza” —...
View ArticleHow Sweden Ended Up Proving Israel Right
The diplomatic fallout from Sweden’s vote to recognize the state of Palestine continues. Israel recalled its ambassador to Sweden along with an explanation from the Foreign Ministry. It followed...
View ArticleCan Americans Tell European Jews to Leave for Israel?
Actor Michael Douglas came face to face with European anti-Semitism recently and didn’t like the experience. Neither have many of the European Jews interviewed by the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg for...
View ArticleEurope’s Anti-Israel Obsession Trumping Both Its Democracy and Its Economy
Even as President Barack Obama was arguing that Iranian anti-Semitism would never trump the country’s interests (as he defines them), an interesting case study in that theory was playing out in a very...
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