David Bernstein (@ProfDBernstein)

Really excellent, quotable piece on antisemitism in The Spectator. "It is customary in debates around contemporary anti-Semitism to maintain there is nothing inherently anti-Semitic about criticising Israel. That is true. But what is striking is just how much criticism of Israel is anti-Semitic." 1/...

In World War II, the Allies killed approximately 750,000 children, some German, some Japanese, some from friendly, occupied people like the French. That's the nature of war; the Allies undoubtedly could have been more careful about civilian deaths, but they couldn't have avoided a death toll well in...