India has just invoked a form of martial law in the states of Jammu and Kashmir without calling it that. It certainly did not wish to do so in order not to draw the world's opprobrium, since it prides itself on being the largest democracy in South Asia. However, shutting down all communication, locking millions of residents in their homes, arresting all … [Read more...]
Senior Rabbis at Israeli Military Prep School Say “Hitler was Right”
Israel's Channel 13 aired recordings (the Jerusalem Post has a highly truncated version of the story) of two senior rabbis at the Orthodox military preparatory academy in the settlement of Eli, as they taught their students lessons on race, the Holocaust, and the evils of "secular pluralism." Rabbi Eliezer Kashtiel lectured his students: "Yes, we're … [Read more...]
2017 Israeli Democracy Poll
I've reported in past years on the Israel Democracy Institute's annual poll on the health (or illness) of Israeli democracy. The results are usually quite dispiriting if you ever believed in such a concept. But they are always instructive. Given the IDI is a liberal Zionist organization intent on maintaining what little remains of Israeli democracy, many … [Read more...]
Steve Bannon Predicts War Against China
Steve Bannon is on the warpath. That's not surprising since on leaving the White House he proclaimed that he was locked and loaded for bear (Democrats and recalcitrant Republicans, that is). In a NY Times interview he proclaimed a new foreign policy bête noire for the Breitbart/Tea Party alt-right: China. It is the new bogeyman to replace devils of yore … [Read more...]
