Edward Alexander is a professor emeritus of English at the University of Washington and a prolific author and essayist on topics related to Jewish history, anti-Semitism, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He contributed essays to The Weekly Standard between 2011 and 2016, frequently addressing anti-Israel movements in academia, European anti-Semitism, and liberal intellectual culture. His work reflects decades of scholarship on the intersection of literature, politics, and Jewish identity.
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 weapons and the $150 billion "signing bonus" paid them for signing a sham agreement with America; not only Iran's proxies to the…
At the conclusion of the latest installment of the endless Arab war against Israel, the leaders of Hamas simultaneously accused Israel of “genocide” against the residents of Gaza and took to the streets, dancing, ululating, and jubilating in celebration of their “victory” over the Zionist enemy.…
In a Wall Street Journal op-ed piece of August 6 about “the surge of poisonous anti-Semitism around the world, particularly in Europe,” Andrew Nagorski had the temerity to note that “the president [Obama] has not prominently addressed the subject of rising anti-Semitism in Europe, much less its…
Laborare est orare: Work is worship. Once upon a time that Latin cry arose from scores of medieval monasteries. Their monks believed that—as Carlyle later put it--“all true Work is Religion: and whatsoever Religion is not work may go and dwell among the Brahmins, Spinning Dervishes, or where it…
In his ponderously titled book Contributions to the Correction of the Public’s Judgement Concerning the French Revolution (1793), the German philosopher and political leader Johann Gottlieb Fichte took time out from his defense of the Reign of Terror to compose what has been called by Daniel…
“Have we indeed sinned more than any other nation?”
In his dissent from the Supreme Court’s recent overthrow of the Defense of Marriage Act, Justice Antonin Scalia observed that the majority opinion accused the Congress and president who had enacted this law not merely of exceeding their powers but of spreading malice, encouraging stigmatization,…
The End of the Holocaust by Alvin H. Rosenfeld Indiana, 328 pp., $29.95