Any war, anywhere, is always Israel’s fault. Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism. A war is raging three thousand miles away from Jerusalem between two nations that share no borders with Israel, and in which it has […]
Foreign Policy calls for adopting definition of ‘Islamophobia’ as ‘rooted in racism’
“Islamophobia” is a propaganda term that is used for two unrelated phenomena: vigilante attacks against innocent Muslims, which are never justified, and honest analysis of the motivating ideology behind jihad violence and Sharia oppression of women and others. The goal of this conflation is to inhibit such analysis and intimidate people into thinking it’s wrong […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: Daniel Altman — “This Is How Every Genocide Begins”
Mr. Altman paints a picture of non-Muslims being carefully primed, through a campaign of falsehoods, to be ready to treat Muslims as Jews were once treated by the Nazis. Here is his scarcely-believable, hysterical warning: Social scientists agree that attacks on an entire class of people — whether identified by their race, religion, education, or […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: Foreign Policy’s Daniel Altman On Trump’s “Disgusting Racist Alt Right Retweets”
Daniel Altman, the editor of Foreign Policy, recently delivered himself of an article, “This Is How Every Genocide Begins,” in which he claims that President Trump’s retweeting of three “anti-Islamic” videos reminds him of the years leading up to the Holocaust. Many absurd remarks have been made about these videos, but none as hysterically absurd […]
Foreign Policy on Trump’s retweets of videos showing Muslims being violent: “This is how every genocide begins”
“Despite these parallels, it may still seem like a stretch to link a few retweets to the Holocaust.” Uh, yeah. “One of the precursors to the Nazi ascendancy was the immense popularity, in the painful aftermath of World War I, of a book purporting to disclose Jews’ plans for global domination: The Protocols of the […]
FP “journalist” Isaac Stone Fish: “The most Trumpian thing most people do is overreact to a small terrorist attack”
Fish, a “journalist” who formerly worked for Newsweek and is on sabbatical now from Foreign Policy, is doubling and tripling and quadrupling down on his Twitter feed, noting that more people have been killed in other contexts, such as 500 people in gun violence in Chicago. That is true. But what he probably doesn’t realize, […]
Foreign Policy covers for Georgetown prof Jonathan Brown’s slavery and rape apologetics
This Foreign Policy piece is a lurid fantasy about how a sinister and well-heeled cabal of racist, bigoted “Islamophobes” have smeared a thoughtful, mild-mannered academic, Professor Jonathan Brown, and opened him up to death threats, as part of a larger endeavor to do nothing less than deprive Muslims of the freedom of speech. In reality, […]
Foreign Policy: “It’s Time for the Elites to Rise Up Against the Ignorant Masses”
The elites are indeed rising up against the masses: in the UK, they’re trying to find ways to reverse the Brexit vote and overrule the will of the people, while in the US, the Republican establishment is trying desperately to overrule the will of its own voters and deny the nomination, or the presidency, to […]
Robert Spencer in PJM: “Gay Marriage Can Defeat the Islamic State”?
In PJ Media today, I discuss one of the most ludicrous foreign policy recommendations ever to appear in Foreign Policy: For absurd foreign policy prescriptions, it’s hard to beat the Obama State Department. But Foreign Policy magazine gave them a run for their money: in an article entitled “Can Gay Marriage Defeat the Islamic State? […]
Foreign Policy thinks tweeting photos of gay marriage supporters will defeat the Islamic State
It is much, much more likely that the Islamic State will see the Supreme Court decision on gay marriage as evidence of the U.S.’s decadence and societal decay, and that will only serve to embolden and encourage them. But there is another glaring fallacy in this “analysis”: “That’s the lesson of history,” Rosa Brooks asserts: […]