Anti-Semitism
March 18, 2026 — Scott Johnson
We must have been paying insufficient attention to the appointment of Joe Kent as head of the National Counterterrorism Center in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Yesterday Kent made himself a hero of the mainstream media when he resigned in protest over President Trump’s leadership in the Iran conflict. One has to read the fine print, however, to discover there is a little more to it. The
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March 14, 2026 — Scott Johnson
It didn’t take long for the mainstream media to come up with a preferred story line for Ayman Mohamad Ghazali’s wild terrorist attack at West Bloomfield’s Temple Israel synagogue. In addition to the New York Times stories cited below, see, for example, this Associated Press story (“Man who rammed into Michigan synagogue had just lost family in an Israeli strike in Lebanon”), this Washington Post story (“Suspect in synagogue crash
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March 13, 2026 — Scott Johnson
If you go looking on the home page of the Star Tribune for a story on the wild anti-Semitic attack at Michigan’s Temple Israel yesterday, you won’t find it. Ditto re the terrorist attack and murder at Old Dominion University. It’s not for want of space on the home page. The Star Tribune home page lists more than 40 stories, columns, and features. Yesterday’s terrorist stories just aren’t deemed that
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March 12, 2026 — Bill Glahn
John covers the basics of the two (2) terrorist attacks that took place today in America: one at a Michigan synagogue/school and the second at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA. I do want to make one point about alleged motive. We all know what the motive was. The New York Post headline on the Michigan attack, Would-be Michigan car bomber rammed explosives-laden truck into Temple Israel preschool — before
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March 10, 2026 — Scott Johnson
The New York Post covers the story of Mayor Mamdani playing host to Hamas fan Mahmoud Khalil and his family at Gracie Mansion for Ramadan. Mamdani released the photo below including his supposedly private-figure Hamasnik wife. Posting a celebratory photo of an anti-Israel college protester who should be deported next to your “non public figure” wife, who cheered the rape and murder of Jews on 10/7, the day after two
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March 6, 2026 — Scott Johnson
If you are famliar with the Chabad branch of Judaism and know any members of Chabad, you might be mystified by the new front Tucker Carlson has opened in his war on Jews. It would be wrong to ignore him. This particular front may get some people killed. Opening X this morning, I see that Gad Saad addresses it in a (too) sympathetic post that omits the context of Carlson’s
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March 1, 2026 — Scott Johnson
I’ve inadventently turned this into Doran Sunday. Below is an interview Andrew Klavan recorded with Michael Doran this past Wednesday, before the demise of Ayatollah Khameni. Doran just posted it on X, where I first found it this afternoon. The video is also posted on YouTube under the title “How Eliminating Ayatollah Khameini Will Change The Middle East.” I found it of interest. In this interview Doran is looking ahead
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February 27, 2026 — John Hinderaker
If you have been to London, you probably have seen the statue of Winston Churchill that stands in Parliament Square. It is one of the world’s most famous sculptures. At around 4:00 this morning, it was vandalized, apparently by a Muslim group: The bronze statue was defaced with red graffiti branding the former prime minister a “Zionist war criminal”. Other phrases including “Stop the Genocide” and “Free Palestine” were sprayed
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February 17, 2026 — Scott Johnson
Tablet describes Marc Weitzmann as the author of 12 books, including, most recently, Hate: The Rising Tide of Anti-Semitism in France (and What It Means for Us) (2019). He is a regular contributor to Le Monde and Le Point and hosts Signes des Temps, a weekly public radio show on France Culture. His long article in the February issue of Tablet is “The Fall of Europe.” Weitzmann summarizes his project
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February 9, 2026 — Scott Johnson
Michael Herr titled one chapter of Dispatches, his Vietnam memoir, “Illumination rounds.” It’s a powerful book and a memorable chapter, separately available from the publisher. The title of that chapter serves as a useful metaphor. My flight home from DC having achieved liftoff, I would like to borrow Herr’s metaphor to fire off these illumination rounds on Israel’s war on Hamas in Gaza. Round one: How many journalists, politicians, and
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February 6, 2026 — Scott Johnson
Our old friend Joel Mowbray — Joel, where have you been? — asks the question that occurs to me with respect to Vice President Vance’s amigo Tucker Carlson. Why the incessant lying about..well, you know who? 🚨 EXCLUSIVE — Tucker is at it again. Tucker just claimed that the Christian population of Israel has plunged since 1948. That is false. After Israel’s founding, there were 34,000 Christians. Today, there are
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January 29, 2026 — Scott Johnson
January 27 was International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Multiple BBC presenters covered the day with no reference to the Jews and subsequently apologized for the — what’s the word? — omission. It wasn’t an oversight. When John posted the item about the BBC’s observance of the occasion, I thought I can top that! Below is the statement posted on Vice President Vance’s X account. Today we remember the millions of lives
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January 28, 2026 — John Hinderaker
The notoriously anti-Semitic BBC topped itself on Holocaust Memorial Day, with coverage that led to this memorable headline: This is the story: The BBC apologised on Tuesday night after introducing coverage of Holocaust Memorial Day without referring to the murder of Jews, with the omission described as “hurtful, disrespectful and wrong”. Jon Kay introduced the report on BBC Breakfast on Tuesday, saying Holocaust Memorial Day was “for remembering the six
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January 15, 2026 — John Hinderaker
I don’t know whether Sydney Sweeney is a conservative–I doubt it–but she is normal rather than crazy, which puts her in Hollywood’s top tier. Her boyfriend is Scooter Braun, a music executive who is a liberal Jew. Despite being a liberal, he is pro-Israel. A principal of Stand With Us, he was instrumental in bringing Screams Before Silence to the public. It isn’t clear exactly when or where this happened,
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January 15, 2026 — Scott Johnson
Over the weekend I noted the torching of Mississippi’s Beth Israel Congregation in Jackson. It is the state’s largest synagogue and a previous victim of arson dating back to the civil rights era. This week the FBI found the perpetrator with a little help from his father. Salena Zito devoted a column exploring the question who inspired him. She reports: Russ Latino, a native Mississippian and founder of the Jackson-based
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January 14, 2026 — Scott Johnson
A sick axis now deforms the conservative movement. I call it the Axis of Tucker. The symptom of the sickness is a familiar disparagement of the Jews and/or Israel. It is symptomatic of a lethal disease. It should in any event be called out, confronted, and refuted. That is what Michael Doran does in his masterful Tablet column “The Jewish test.” In this column Doran elaborates on the argument he
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January 11, 2026 — Scott Johnson
Jewish Insider’s Haley Cohen reports a scenario of Mississipi burning: A suspect is under arrest for an act of arson that significantly damaged Mississippi’s largest synagogue early Saturday morning, authorities reported. Local law enforcement arrested a suspect whom they believe purposefully set fire to Beth Israel Congregation shortly after 3 a.m. Saturday, Jackson Mayor John Horhn confirmed. The suspect’s name and motive have not been disclosed. Beth Israel Congregation is
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