‘All these so-called Jews mad, because how dare I make them face the facts of their sordid past and present,’ Nicholas Payton said in 2020 Musician Nicholas Payton plays in NPR studios (NPR/YouTube) A top official at the Berklee College of Music has a years-long history of posting anti-Semitic and historically inaccurate claims about Jews,
Anti-Israel Harvard Law School students organized a workshop on the Ivy League campus earlier this month to edit the Wikipedia pages of more than a dozen prominent law firms, singling out some that threatened to stop recruiting at the school over its failure to rein in anti-Semitic activity. Harvard’s National Lawyers Guild chapter, a left-wing
Amid the tumult over tariffs, let’s not forget a war rages on in the Middle East and terrorists are still holding innocent people hostage. Douglas Murray hasn’t forgotten. His latest book, On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization, has just come out. Weekend Beacon contributor Meir Y. Soloveichik has a review.
I got to know Douglas Murray in the worst week in modern Jewish memory. Hearing him speak was, without question, the best moment in that week, a bright beacon in dark days. I had been scheduled to speak in October 2023 in a London synagogue, at an event about my recent book. Following the horror
The much-vaunted Special Relationship between Britain and the United States hasn’t always been so special. Leaving aside the American Revolutionary War and the War of 1812, economic and political relations between the world’s two leading Anglo powers have often been tumultuous. In the second half of the 19th century, for example, American protectionism clashed head-on
Before Jeff Bezos could create Amazon, or Mark Zuckerberg could create Facebook, or Larry Page and Sergey Brin could create Google, someone had to build the foundation of modern technology that now dominates every aspect of our lives. And in Source Code: My Beginnings, Bill Gates—one of the Founding Fathers of the software revolution that
A few years ago, one of my friends was in a taxi in Israel. Making conversation, she mentioned to the seemingly secular driver that she was a Bible teacher. “I love reading the Bible!” the cab driver exclaimed. “What’s your favorite part?” my friend asked. “Abraham smashing his father’s idols and teaching him about the