(A response to Bret Stephens’ sermon on antisemitism, Nov. 11, 2025) Ah, Bret Stephens has spoken again — that weary high priest of moral panic and selective outrage. Once more, he descends from the pages of The New York Times , clutching the sacred scroll of victimhood in one hand and a mirror he refuses to look into with the other. This time, his sermon bears a familiar title — “Meet the New Antisemites, Same as the Old Antisemites.” Catchy. Biblical, even. Only problem? The real “old antisemites” are now wearing army uniforms with Hebrew lettering and dropping U.S.-financed bombs on Gaza — and Bret calls that “self-defense.” The Gospel According to Bret Bret laments Tucker Carlson’s interview with Nick Fuentes — the “Hitler fanboy,” as he calls him — as proof that antisemitism is seeping back through the cracks of American conservatism. And he’s right — it is . Only, one wonders why Bret’s moral radar detects every droplet of hate in American discourse but goes blind to th...
n R It was not the torture that shocked Israel. It was the fact that someone leaked it. Welcome to Sde Teiman — the desert detention camp that became a mirror to Israel’s moral decay, and to the world’s selective blindness. The Scene of the Crime The story begins, like most horror stories do these days, with a camera. On July 5, 2024, security footage inside the Sde Teiman military base caught what it was never meant to record: a Palestinian prisoner, blindfolded, bound, and dragged across the floor by Israeli soldiers. Moments later, the soldiers raised shields to block the camera — and behind that human wall, the real Israel revealed itself. When the shields dropped , the man lay broken: seven fractured ribs, a punctured lung, and a torn rectum so severe it required surgery and a colostomy. The anatomy of cruelty was complete. The Scandal That Wasn’t You would think such a crime would set off national outrage. But in Israel’s political universe , torture is an...