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Trading Gemstones for Gravel

The great scholar and jurist of Muslim Spain, Ibn Hazm al-Andalusi, tells us that those who prefer the pleasures of this life and who disregard the life to come, are like people who exchange gemstones for gravel…

The United States of Israel?

When two of America’s most distinguished academics dared to suggest that US foreign policy was being driven by a powerful ‘Israel Lobby’ whose influence was incompatible with their nation’s own interests, they knew they would face allegations of anti-Semitism. But the episode has prompted America’s Jewish liberals to confront their own complacency. Might the tide be turning?