A distressed Armenian-Jewish friend came to visit journalist Lara Sekratian in her Yerevan home. She had sat in the Yerevan synagogue’s sukkah, praying that the survivors of one genocide wouldn’t endanger the lives of the survivors of another: that Israeli bombs supplied to Azerbaijan wouldn’tend the lives of Armenian civilians. Her story is told here.
In the wake of the two Gulf normalization agreements, Saudi Arabia has stepped up its aggressive hasbara game, in preparation for its own potential accords with Israel – and that requires delegitimizing Palestinian leaders both past and present, writes Muhammad Shehada.
In Israel, the second national COVID-19 lockdown has been marked by failed leadership, hypocrisy and bitter social division – and Samuel Heilman says it’s far worse than New York’s coronavirus ground zero, New Rochelle. Anshel Pfeffer explains why MAGA flag-waving ultra-Orthodox mobs railing against COVID restrictions are attacking fellow Jews in Brooklyn.
Chuck Freilich offers a dystopian vision of how Netanyahu could leverage current emergency regulations to push Israel’s democracy into terminal decline.
Also on that futurist theme, Samuel Freedman advises readers – and the U.S. president – who want to know what happens to leaders who traffic in cruelty and plague denial to open the Bible and read Exodus.
Very much in the present, Eric Yoffie asks how the Republican Jewish Coalition, with its breathless support for a Donald Trump constantly dog-whistling to white supremacists, can look itself in the mirror.
And Ori Nir, Americans for Peace Now's vice president for public affairs, reflects on the storm over AOC withdrawing from the group’s event marking Yitzhak Rabin’s assassination, and his own memories of that fateful evening. He asks why the U.S. left would contribute to the decades-long campaign waged by Netanyahu and Israel’s right wing to delegitimize Rabin’s peacemaking.
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