Seth Mandel

In June 1858, police in Bologna seized a six-year-old Jewish child, Edgardo Mortara, under the justification that Edgardo had been secretly baptized as a baby by his housekeeper. Edgardo was taken

A troubling story out of Vermont suggests a dangerous new front is opening up in the war on Zionism in the West. The coordinated and well-funded attempt to make “Zionism”

Hillary Clinton is not backing down on her insistence that social media is giving young people a false picture of the Arab-Israeli conflict and that this phenomenon deserves a large

On November 8, the IndieChina Film Festival was scheduled to begin in New York. IndieChina was organized by the veteran Chinese indie figure Zhu Rikun. Mainstream Chinese cinema has exploded,

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt today denied a report that the U.S. is seeking to establish a military base near Gaza for use by international peacekeeping forces. “This article

The following are two headlines regarding the current BBC scandal. The Guardian: “Tim Davie defends BBC against ‘weaponisation’ of criticism.” The Telegraph: “BBC forced to correct two Gaza stories a

There’s a particular story of Jewish fear in the modern era that has stuck with me ever since I read about it. After the post-October 7 revelations of the mistreatment

The initial Jewish institutional response to Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral victory has been appropriate. “Zohran Mamdani’s elevation to Gracie Mansion reminds us that antisemitism remains a clear and present danger, even

Are Israel and its advocates driving potential supporters into the arms of white nationalists with accusations of anti-Semitism? Heritage chief Kevin Roberts last week claimed that criticism of Israeli and

How a society responds to a crisis tells us just as much about that society as the crisis itself, maybe more. Which is why the scene yesterday at a Manhattan