David P. Goldman

Among the hot-button issues in the November elections, support for Israel will figure prominently. But the issue is not Israel, and surely not the eventual construction of apartments in East Jerusalem. It is the Administration’s neglect or sabotage of vital security interests of the United States… . Continue Reading »

Trouble in US-Israeli relations is real, but is misrepresented in the press accounts. No-one—really, no-one—cares about the Palestinians. The tiff centers on Israel’s plans to attack Iran. And Obama may be in more trouble than Netanyahu.This week’s Spengler essay at Asia . . . . Continue Reading »

Damien Hirst’s bisected pig in formaldehyde is on sale at a Christie’s gallery in London for $12 million:Hirst’s 1996 taxidermy-in-formaldehyde piece, ‘‘This Little Piggy Went to Market, This Little Piggy Stayed at Home,” consisting of a pig sliced in half in two . . . . Continue Reading »

Yesterday’s New York Times carried an horrific account of the slaughter of five hundred Christians by Muslim nomads March 7. It begins:JOS, Nigeria — Dispassionately, the baby-faced young man recounted his killings: two women and one man, first beaten senseless with a stick, then stabbed . . . . Continue Reading »

On Wednesday, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) released the following statement on the recent massacre in Nigeria : The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) today expressed grave concerns about the sectarian clash in several villages outside of . . . . Continue Reading »

The Anti-Defamation League of B’Nai B’rith calls the Presbyterian Church to account for yet another display of leftist knee-jerk hostility to the State of Israel:ADL: PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH USA REPORT“OFFENSIVE ATTACK ON JUDAISM AND ISRAEL” New York, NY, March 11, 2010 . . . . Continue Reading »

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Inventing news where there is none is not a new pastime for the press, but the intense interest that the European media has shown in the Rev. Georg Ratzinger, the elder brother of Pope Benedict XVI, goes beyond the usual range of invidious gossip. The 86-year-old Monsignor Ratzinger, the retired . . . . Continue Reading »

Somewhere in Tolkien’s letters he makes clear that the Dwarves of Middle Earth are his Jews. The Dwarvish language of which a few short examples are given is obviously derived from Semitic sources, just as High-Elven stems from Finnish and other Northern European roots. The Dwarves were created . . . . Continue Reading »

David Klinghoffer, the “Kingdom of Priests” blogger at Beliefnet, was telling me the other day about the Orthodox shul in Seattle at which he davens. Very few members of the synagogue (the rabbi excepted) were raised in Orthodox homes. Almost all are Jews who embraced Orthodoxy as . . . . Continue Reading »