Sublime

While the Jewish community accepted the Peel recommendations, the Arabs rejected them outright. King Abdullah of Transjordan apparently favored the plan, since it would reunite Arabs in Palestine with his kingdom and allocate to it more arable land. The rank and file Arab population was inexorably opposed, however, and Abdullah understood that he c

This is why the leadership at Hadar actively sought out volunteers one person at a time.

But the search for a Roman reality behind the charges very much misses the point of these texts: they are the product of an ideology that represented the struggle against tyranny in terms of a struggle against the Jews.

BDS is the acronym for Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions, and it acts to do just that: to wage economic warfare on Israel. It advocates for divesting investments away from Israel, boycotting Israeli products and academia, not doing business with Israeli companies, and placing economic sanctions on Israel, like the ones imposed on apartheid South Afric

“[To] call someone a Jew amounts to an instigation to work him over until he resembles the image.”

Jews who suffered and the six million who perished in Europe had something in common with the people who ran the newspaper—and this was something that the New York Times’s controlling owners somehow found unacceptable.