Edward Alexander
ARTICLES BY: Edward Alexander
The History of the Wandering Jew
Albert Londres, a non-Jewish muckraking French journalist, set off for London, Prague, Subcarpathia and Poland early in 1929, in order to examine the harsh and...
Reflections on Death, Mourning and the Afterlife in the Jewish Tradition
After One-Hundred-and-Twenty: Reflections on Death, Mourning, and the Afterlife in the Jewish Tradition, by Hillel Halkin; Princeton University Press, 2016; 232 pp. Is there any subject...
Obama, Merkel and ‘The Right Side of History’
“US Sends Iran Two More Loads of Cash." So blared the headline on the front page of the September 7 issue of The Wall Street...
‘Berning’ the Jews: Sanders and the Democratic Platform Committee
"Antisemitism is no longer a problem, fortunately. It’s raised because privileged people want to make sure they have total control, not just 98% control. That’s...
Bernie Sanders Versus the Tenth Commandment
Bernie Sanders, with the regularity of a steam engine, has pounded away for months at the injustice, the wickedness, even the racism of “income inequality.”...
Bernie Sanders: Socialist, Progressive, Jew
In the course of his mercurial rise to national prominence, Senator Bernard Sanders has diligently affixed the adjective “democratic” to the “socialism” that is the...
Nothing Abides: Perspectives on the Middle East and Islam (REVIEW)
Nothing Abides: Perspectives on the Middle East and Islam, by Daniel Pipes. Transaction Publishers, 2015. More doggedly than any other expert on Middle East affairs Daniel...
Jewish Academics Turn Against Hillel
The enemies of Israel neither slumber nor sleep. They include not only the technically competent barbarians of Iran, exuberantly aggressive with the prospect of nuclear...
The Campus Uprisings, Israel, and the Downfall of Larry Summers
The Wall Street Journal of November 14-15 carried an astute article by Roger Kimball (editor of the New Criterion) entitled “The Rise of the College...
‘If There is a Third Intifada, We Want to Be the Ones Who Started It’
“If There is a Third Intifada, We Want to Be the Ones Who Started It” --New York Times Magazine Cover Story (Illustrated), March 17, 2013 "The most...
A Righteous Gentile Navigates the Sharkpool of Washington’s Middle East Correspondents (REVIEW)
The Tribalist, by Louis Marano, is ostensibly a work of fiction but at its core a kind of love song by a gentile journalist for...
The Nuclear ‘Deal’ and Obama’s Post-POTUS Future
President Obama’s decision to send the potentially catastrophic “executive agreement” (formerly known to speakers of English as a “treaty”) with Iran for immediate unanimous approval...
EXCLUSIVE: Jews Against Themselves, by Edward Alexander (EXCERPT)
Jews Against Themselves is about the new forms taken by Jewish apostasy in an age when Jewish existence is threatened more starkly and immediately than at...
Hillary Clinton and Michael Lerner: A Historical Footnote
The Algemeiner recently reported that "After weeks of escalating criticism of Israel by the Obama Administration, Hillary Clinton, former Secretary of State and the...
