Category Archives: Essays

Continued from part 3   Conclusions   Holocaust scholar Daniel Goldhagen has put forth the controversial argument that the Nazis melded centuries of annihilationist German Jew hatred to a state machinery capable of implementing the systematic mass murder of Jews. … Continue reading →

Continued from Part 2   The Pahlavi Reforms   Reza Pahlavi’s spectacular rise to power in 1925 was accompanied by dramatic reforms, including secularization and westernization efforts, as well as a revitalization of Iran’s pre-Islamic spiritual and cultural heritage. This … Continue reading →

Continued from Part 1   Shah Ismail’s Living Legacy   At the outset of the 16th century, Iran’s Safavid rulers formally established Shi’a Islam as the state religion, while permitting a clerical hierarchy nearly unlimited control and influence over all … Continue reading →

  Al-Majlisi (d. 1699), the Khomeini of Safavid Iran   Summary   Earlier this week Professors Moshe Sharon and Benny Morris both opined solemnly about an inevitable Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities. These two respected Israeli academicians, despite holding … Continue reading →

Rabbi Brichto   Rabbi Dr Sidney Brichto writes a letter to The Telegraph in response to the Arch-Dhimmi of Canterbury’s ongoing appeasement of Muslim supremacism in the guise of “understanding”   The Archbishop of Canterbury’s letter to Muslim leaders looked … Continue reading →

  Obama (left in photo) with his brother Malik (holding photo) reportedly in 1985         My colleague the astute and witty Political Scientist Barry Rubin attempts, gamely, to penetrate the naïve and ignorant hubris of Barrack “Barry” … Continue reading →

  Bat Ye’or   As part of the publicity surrounding the release of the Hebrew edition of “Eurabia” by Schocken Press, Bat Ye’or gave this interview, and this lecture (only the introduction is included). At the conclusion of her interview … Continue reading →

  “The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.”   —Sigmund Freud   From The New York Daily News on the New Yorker Obamas cover (above) … Continue reading →

C-SPAN2 Book TV broadcast the videotape recording of my talk about The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism May 21, 2008 at The Hudson Institute this morning (7/13/08) at 7 AM EST/ 4 AM PST. There will be another broadcast overnight/ this … Continue reading →

  Tomorrow, Sunday July 13th (on my birthday no less), I am privileged to be on the radio with that shy wallflower Jackie Mason. As Don Feder noted in the summer of 2004, Jackie pulled no punches stating (amongst other … Continue reading →