JERUSALEM POST, ISRAEL Terra Incognita: Why Modi matters By SETH J. FRANTZMAN 18/05/2014 The world needs more leaders like India’s incoming PM, not because of his checkered past, but because we need to not fear national, linguistic and religious pride and nation-states that respect their origins. As it became clear that Narendra Modi of the […]
In 2007 the Daily Mail’s Richard Littlejohn investigated the anti-Semitism which had become an essential feature of the British political Left. His research was broadcast in July of that year on Channel 4, with the programme The War on Britain’s Jews. Normally the anti-Semitism of the Left is couched in anti-Zionism. Yet it is […]
Yamit Talker-Shefer in a green sari dances with family and friends during her Indian wedding ceremony in Rehovot, Israel, 2009. The creation of Israel provided the Jews with both a homeland and sanctuary free from the ravages of anti-Semitism which culminated in the Holocaust. While the persecution of Jews in Europe is well known […]
by Ranbir In his book God is not Great, the late Christopher Hitchens takes issue with the prevailing view that India’s independence was the result of the efforts of Mahatma Gandhi’s use of non-violent civil disobedience. Anyone claiming to be Gandhian or setting their ethical compass by Gandhi often exudes a self-righteous arrogance and […]
