Tag Archives: Jeremy Gimpel

just blame them

Tolerated guests in their own land. Israel’s main problem is to come to grips with itself as a Jewish state. Until this arrives, here will always be a self-negating ideology at work, a presumed unworthiness, a form of auto-flagellation that … Continue reading

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caught in the thorns

Classically, in politics, going back even to Machiavelli or Lord Chesterfield, one’s adversary is not a demon or an enemy to be obliterated at all costs. The opponent is just another player in a game with set rules and defined … Continue reading

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send it sky high?

His comments were about on the same level as Mohammed Morsi’s “jews descended from pigs and apes,” and it has been a chronic and pervasive piece of populist Jewish rhetoric to preach the need for blowing up the temple Mount … Continue reading

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candidates for the perplexed?

Sometimes it seems when Jews identify themselves as jews without some post-post modern prefix to the J word that there is less anti-semitism.A plain garden variety jew without weight of being an inconvenient and totally chance birth defect to be … Continue reading

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