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On April 24, 2021, Joe Biden became the first sitting U.S. president formally to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide.  What was this genocide about, and what is its significance for today? The Genocide Education Project offers a summary of that tragic event that transpired during World War I, specifically [...]

Under the Constitution, the federal government has the responsibility to provide for the national security of the United States. Congress has the power to raise and fund armies and navies, to declare war, and to make laws regarding such non-state foreign threats as piracy. The president has the [...]

In August 2020, more than 600 Jewish organizations signed an open letter in The New York Times endorsing the radical political movement Black Lives Matter (BLM).  This is cause for serious concern. BLM’s stance is that Israel is an occupying/colonizing force that oppresses the Palestinian people. That was [...]

In the 21st century, an ominous paradox developed: on the one hand, progressives increasingly demanded the banishing of hate speech, in some cases down to micro-aggressions. And yet within this increasingly severe approach, Islam became a double exception to the rule. Islamist hate speech did not count; negative [...]

The great abolitionist Frederick Douglass began his career as a speaker on the abolition circuit by relating his experiences as a slave, sometimes revealing to shocked audiences his whip-scarred back. A large photograph of such a back of a slave is featured in The 1619 Project, a special [...]

Few phenomena are as horrifically widespread as they are virtually unknown—at least in the West—as the Muslim persecution of Christians. The general facts are undeniable and have been and continue to be documented in a number of reports issued by a variety of human rights organizations around the [...]

On 18 August 2019, the New York Times devoted its Sunday magazine to rolling out a deftly orchestrated initiative to rewrite American history through the distorting prism of Critical Race Theory.  Nikole Hannah-Jones, an activist journalist with the newspaper, orchestrated the 1619 Project and furnished it with its [...]

Throughout my childhood, my mother had nightmares that the Nazis were coming for her. In Europe my co-ethnics lived that nightmare. From the time that the Romans invaded and colonized the holy land, finally defeated the Jewish resistance, and expelled most remaining Jews, many Jews have lived as [...]

As we begin a new year, one might ask what antisemitism could look like as we move through the decade of the 2020s. Who are the major purveyors of antisemitism today, what are their motivations, and what is causing an increase in antisemitism in Western societies so many [...]

Cancel culture is what we call the effort by leftists to banish people who defy the edicts of political correctness.  The idea extends to the inanimate, as when statues of George Washington are toppled, buildings renamed, and innocent objects such as plastic straws are outlawed.  But cancel culture [...]