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Norway’s Jewish Problem

The far-right Anders Breivik made news with his murderous assault on multiculturalism in 2011.  But Jews are leaving Norway because of pressure from the country’s liberal anti-Zionist elite.Balfour and the Bolsheviks

History remembers 1917 for the Balfour Declaration’s support of Zionism.  But Jews in 1917 were more interested in another event of that same week: the October Revolution.Arendt and the Arabs

Hannah Arendt feared that Zionism would create a “Jewish island in an Arab sea.”  But her Eurocentrism kept her from seeing just how hostile that sea would be. A Brutal Peace

The postwar expulsion of German speakers from Czechoslovakia formed one more chapter in the story of Europe’s incapacity to reconcile the claims of democracy and nationalism.