Seth Mandel

It’s difficult to shock an Israeli military interrogator, but Yahya Sinwar did it. A former investigator with the Shin Bet security service was once asked what stuck in his memory from decades-ago interrogations of the late Hamas leader, and he replied that it was Sinwar’s admission that he forced a Palestinian man to bury his own brother alive. Sinwar had been worried that the man was “collaborating” with Israel.

The attempts to dismiss the Amsterdam pogrom as fundamentally connected to soccer hooliganism are meant to send the following message: You don’t have to worry about this stuff unless you’re at a football game. It’s a contained problem.

The saga of the Michigan student government’s civil war is now a trilogy. Back in the spring, anti-Zionist activists won control of the University of Michigan Central Student Government on

While most of the foreign-affairs discussion centers on the incoming Trump administration’s distrust of international institutions, the European Union’s member nations are about to have their liberation day. EU foreign-policy chief Josep Borrell, a man who personifies the supranational authoritarianism at the heart of the mega-statist project, is about to step down and relieve Europe from the burden of his faux-command.

The Hill provides us today with a late entrant in the “most unintentionally humorous headline of the year” sweepstakes:

Less than a week after the pogrom in Amsterdam, UN celebrity Jew-baiter Francesca Albanese was scheduled to speak in London. Albanese has embraced authoritarian anti-Semitism and become a hero to the worst people in politics. The Campaign Against Anti-Semitism, a British organization, worked up plans to protest Albanese’s arrival.

There’s no single reason Kamala Harris lost the election. But as the dust settles, it seems that one of Harris’s weaknesses—surely the most ironic of them—was that voters kinda thought she was a bit weird.

Certainly, the main complaint about the Biden administration’s handling of the wars in Ukraine and Israel is its ambivalence toward victory. But another problem, and it is shared by the West broadly, is the lack of recognition that sovereignty, not mere survival, is an important goal in itself.

Critics of Israel’s counteroffensive in Gaza, especially those in the media, really need to settle on a complaint. Too often they are effectively arguing with each other, though unintentionally. To