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New York\u2019s mayor isn\u2019t going to arrest Israel\u2019s prime minister. But the widespread belief in the \u201cgenocide\u201d blood libel illustrates how toxic ideologies, AI and social media are defeating facts.
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Zohran Mamdani, mayor of New York City, on July 4, 2026. Credit: Office of the New York City Mayor.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\nIt didn\u2019t take a statement<\/a><\/span> from President Donald Trump to ensure that New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani isn\u2019t going to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when he arrives in Manhattan for the annual U.N. General Assembly meetings in September.<\/span><\/p>\nLike all world leaders, Netanyahu is protected by the terms of the treaty by which the United States secured the placement of the world body in New York City in the years after the Second World War. Moreover, the United States is not a party to the International Criminal Court in The Hague, whose corrupt former chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, indicted the Israeli leader on false charges of having \u201cintentionally and knowingly deprived\u201d Gaza\u2019s population of food, water, fuel and medicine in 2024. Khan resigned under fire because of a different issue entirely: accusations of sexual misconduct.<\/span><\/p>\nAn empty threat<\/b><\/h4>\n
The Trump administration has rightly sought to dismantle the court, whose activities are a travesty of justice and motivated solely by political prejudice against the West, and especially Israel. The ICC\u2019s influence may have made it impossible for Netanyahu to travel to most places in the world. However, it has no jurisdiction in the United States, and federal authorities would prevent Mamdani from interfering with the prime minister\u2019s ability to visit New York or anywhere else in the country.<\/span><\/p>\nMamdani is smart enough to know this. Why then, did he tell The New York Times<\/i><\/a><\/span> that he had asked city lawyers to see if he had the authority to honor his campaign pledge to arrest the prime minister, whom he has smeared as a \u201cwar criminal\u201d?<\/span><\/p>\nThe answer isn\u2019t any mystery. To those who support the Democratic Socialist mayor, Israel is the epitome of international evil. They truly believe that the actions the Jewish state took to defend itself against the Palestinian Arab terrorists who launched a war on Oct. 7, 2023, with the largest mass slaughter since the Holocaust were not merely wrong or excessive. They believe that Israel committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. And no amount of reporting, historical knowledge or the actual meaning of the word will convince them otherwise.<\/span><\/p>\nThe \u2018genocide\u2019 myth<\/b><\/h4>\n
Wars are raging around the globe that have caused far greater civilian casualties than the one fought against Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip, who were responsible for the orgy of murder, rape, burnings, torture, kidnapping and wanton destruction that happened on Oct. 7.<\/span><\/p>\nBut that doesn\u2019t matter. Nor do the reasoned arguments<\/a><\/span> of military experts who have repeatedly stated that Israel\u2019s war against Hamas was conducted in a manner that was more moral and produced fewer casualties than against any foe in an urban environment\u2014let alone one that deliberately, as Hamas did, hid behind non-combatants and sought to endanger as many of their compatriots as possible. Moreover, even the United Nations and The New York Times<\/i> have finally admitted<\/a><\/span> that it was Hamas that was blocking the distribution of food and other supplies to civilians in Gaza even though both spent most of the war denying it.<\/span><\/p>\nIf you believe the existence of one Jewish state on the planet is not only illegitimate but that the key to solving all of the world\u2019s problems is bound up in its destruction, then you are ready to believe any charge against it, no matter how false or outrageous. The toxic ideologies that enable such bizarre notions are also responsible for the surge in worldwide antisemitism, not least in New York City, where Mamdani has been forced to acknowledge<\/a><\/span> that Jews are being targeted for hate crimes on his watch out of all proportion to their percentage of the population. And that is a far greater problem than a mayor who thinks that pleasing his base obligates him to make empty threats about arresting Israel\u2019s head of government.<\/span><\/p>\nThe embrace of critical race theory, intersectionality and settler-colonialism by the American education system and so much of popular culture has materially altered public discourse not merely about race, but about antisemitism and Israel. The belief that Israel and Jews are \u201cwhite\u201d oppressors, and that Palestinians are oppressed \u201cpeople of color\u201d who are their perennial victims, is contrary to the facts about both peoples. Jews are the most oppressed people of the last two millennia, and the majority of Israelis are people of color by the definitions of the American left since they trace their origins to North Africa and the Middle East.<\/span><\/p>\nThe perpetuation of the conflict is the function of the fact that any outcome other than Israel\u2019s destruction and the genocide of the Jews living there is an injustice the Palestinians cannot abide.<\/span><\/p>\nOnce you buy into those myths, it\u2019s easy to believe the blood libels about Jews committing genocide, whose downfall could liberate all of humankind. And if you swallow that, it\u2019s easy to understand why a Democratic Party under the sway of Mamdani\u2019s fellow left-wingers has accepted the hostility to Israel that has, alongside opposition to enforcing immigration laws, become the organizing principle of American politics.<\/span><\/p>\nSocial-media algorithms versus facts<\/b><\/h4>\n
The real problem behind Mamdani\u2019s latest publicity stunt isn\u2019t merely a function of unjustified anger at Israelis and Jews. As an essay<\/a><\/span> by historian Niall Ferguson and AI researcher John-Clark Levin in The Free Press<\/i> argues, the same factors are responsible for the growth of Holocaust denial and what they call \u201cThe Death of History.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nFerguson and Levin believe what we are witnessing in our public discourse, both on the left and the far-right, is a \u201ccomeback\u201d of the same sort of genocidal hatred for Jews that led to the Shoah in the mid-20th century. Ferguson has spent a lifetime writing histories and producing documentaries warning that accepting these vile ideas leads to tragedy. But he has come to believe that his work\u2014and that of other historians\u2014is increasingly looking like it was all in vain because it is being overridden by social-media algorithms designed to spread hate. While in the past, thought leaders like conservative writer William F. Buckley were able to banish believers in these ideas from the political mainstream, now such efforts are failing.<\/span><\/p>\nInstead of denying the Holocaust, political commentators and podcasters on the far-right like Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens and Nick Fuentes \u201cmock and celebrate it.\u201d That amuses right-wing youth, who get their knowledge of the world from social-media feeds. Those on the left then \u201ccleverly blend it with anti-Zionism and anti-capitalism.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nFerguson and Levin point out that \u201cas it is young voters who are most susceptible to these trends, the implications for the future of American politics are chilling.\u201d It explains a lot about Mamdani\u2019s appeal. It also shows how he can flip the narrative about the conflict between Israel and its genocidal foes. That is what is behind the accusations against Netanyahu and the widespread belief that it is Israel that is committing \u201cgenocide.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nAI images that feed rage<\/b><\/h4>\n
The lies that Mamdani\u2014and those who echo his smears in outlets like the Times<\/i>\u2014tell about Israel are easily refuted by those who array the facts about the conflict against them in the same manner serious historians can answer Holocaust deniers. Still, the problem is that this only works against arguments that at least pretend to be reasoned.<\/span><\/p>\nBut the algorithms that spread the new big antisemitic lies aren\u2019t pretending to be rational. They are a function of manipulated images and rage about alleged crimes that are difficult to refute online. As Ferguson and Levin note, \u201cThe algorithms reflect our own vices back to us\u2014and magnify them. As long as we indulge our wrathful impulses, we\u2019ll see more rage bait that stokes them. As long as we give in to our short attention spans, our news feeds will carpet-bomb our brains with dopamine. As long as we guzzle flattering lies, the truth will be muscled off our screens by propaganda.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nThat\u2019s a sobering thought that puts the failures of pro-Israel voices to effectively counter the \u201cgenocide\u201d blood libels in perspective.<\/span><\/p>\nWith respect to Holocaust denial, historians now feel as if they are helpless to combat the fallout of so many lies.<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cIn the face of an avalanche of AI-powered anti-history, the real historians are powerless. We thought we could prevail in a fair fight about what really happened in the past. We naively believed that, if we went to the right archives, and read the right documents, and summarized them with the right footnotes, and published our scholarly books and peer-reviewed articles, then the Holocaust deniers would be driven from the field. What fools we were,\u201d Ferguson and Levin conclude.<\/span><\/p>\nCan virtue defeat hate?<\/b><\/h4>\n
The same problem applies to the debate about Israel. Similar rage-based distortions about the actions of the Jewish state and those of its genocidal foes\u2014combined with a biased media whose journalists have been indoctrinated in leftist ideologies about \u201cwhite\u201d oppressors\u2014have materially altered public opinion. If a plurality of Americans now tell pollsters<\/a><\/span> that they believe Israel has committed \u201cgenocide,\u201d it\u2019s not because of anything Netanyahu has said or done. It\u2019s because we live in a time when fast-paced technology has the power to persuade people to accept patently false assertions with much greater ease than the manner in which the Nazis employed print, film and radio nearly a century ago.<\/span><\/p>\nAnswering this isn\u2019t going to be enabled with attempts to ban hate speech. It will, among other things, require the clever use of social media and technology. But as Ferguson and Levin assert, there is more to it than that. \u201cWe must recover a shared sense of moral responsibility not to contribute to the conditions that let a Fuentes thrive,\u201d they say. \u201cIt\u2019s a lesson that dates back to Cleon in ancient Athens. Ultimately, as Plato and Aristotle discovered, the only bulwark against demagogues is a people virtuous enough to resist their lure.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nA leering young mayor peddling blood libels against Jews like Mamdani doesn\u2019t seem to fear such a turnaround. Indeed, in an age where virtue seems conspicuously absent in our politics and culture, optimism about the future can be difficult to maintain.<\/span><\/p>\nStill, giving up isn\u2019t an option. And the rise of current advocates for antisemitism, the hatred of Jews and Israel, like the mayor, isn\u2019t unprecedented in history. They have been defeated before by decent people who are ready to heed fact-based journalism in the same way they have sometimes heeded the lessons of real, rather than AI-distorted, history.<\/span><\/p>\nWhat is required is not just better use of AI and social media by the forces of truth but an appeal to higher virtues by a new generation of journalists, artists and faith leaders that will undermine the appeal of social media-driven hate. It\u2019s a tall task, but there is no alternative available but to begin that fight.<\/span><\/p>\n
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Jonathan S. Tobin<\/strong> is editor-in-chief of the Jewish News Syndicate, a senior contributor for The Federalist, a columnist for Newsweek and a contributor to many other publications. He covers the American political scene, foreign policy, the U.S.-Israel relationship, Middle East diplomacy, the Jewish world and the arts. He hosts the JNS \u201cThink Twice\u201d podcast, both the weekly video program and the \u201cJonathan Tobin Daily\u201d program, which are available on all major audio platforms and YouTube. Previously, he was executive editor, then senior online editor and chief political blogger, for Commentary magazine. Before that, he was editor-in-chief of The Jewish Exponent in Philadelphia and editor of the Connecticut Jewish Ledger. He has won more than 60 awards for commentary, art criticism and other writing. He appears regularly on television, commenting on politics and foreign policy. Born in New York City, he studied history at Columbia University.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n
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Zohran Mamdani, mayor of New York City, on July 4, 2026. Credit: Office of the New York City Mayor.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\nIt didn\u2019t take a statement<\/a><\/span> from President Donald Trump to ensure that New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani isn\u2019t going to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when he arrives in Manhattan for the annual U.N. General Assembly meetings in September.<\/span><\/p>\n Like all world leaders, Netanyahu is protected by the terms of the treaty by which the United States secured the placement of the world body in New York City in the years after the Second World War. Moreover, the United States is not a party to the International Criminal Court in The Hague, whose corrupt former chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, indicted the Israeli leader on false charges of having \u201cintentionally and knowingly deprived\u201d Gaza\u2019s population of food, water, fuel and medicine in 2024. Khan resigned under fire because of a different issue entirely: accusations of sexual misconduct.<\/span><\/p>\n The Trump administration has rightly sought to dismantle the court, whose activities are a travesty of justice and motivated solely by political prejudice against the West, and especially Israel. The ICC\u2019s influence may have made it impossible for Netanyahu to travel to most places in the world. However, it has no jurisdiction in the United States, and federal authorities would prevent Mamdani from interfering with the prime minister\u2019s ability to visit New York or anywhere else in the country.<\/span><\/p>\n Mamdani is smart enough to know this. Why then, did he tell The New York Times<\/i><\/a><\/span> that he had asked city lawyers to see if he had the authority to honor his campaign pledge to arrest the prime minister, whom he has smeared as a \u201cwar criminal\u201d?<\/span><\/p>\n The answer isn\u2019t any mystery. To those who support the Democratic Socialist mayor, Israel is the epitome of international evil. They truly believe that the actions the Jewish state took to defend itself against the Palestinian Arab terrorists who launched a war on Oct. 7, 2023, with the largest mass slaughter since the Holocaust were not merely wrong or excessive. They believe that Israel committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. And no amount of reporting, historical knowledge or the actual meaning of the word will convince them otherwise.<\/span><\/p>\n Wars are raging around the globe that have caused far greater civilian casualties than the one fought against Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip, who were responsible for the orgy of murder, rape, burnings, torture, kidnapping and wanton destruction that happened on Oct. 7.<\/span><\/p>\n But that doesn\u2019t matter. Nor do the reasoned arguments<\/a><\/span> of military experts who have repeatedly stated that Israel\u2019s war against Hamas was conducted in a manner that was more moral and produced fewer casualties than against any foe in an urban environment\u2014let alone one that deliberately, as Hamas did, hid behind non-combatants and sought to endanger as many of their compatriots as possible. Moreover, even the United Nations and The New York Times<\/i> have finally admitted<\/a><\/span> that it was Hamas that was blocking the distribution of food and other supplies to civilians in Gaza even though both spent most of the war denying it.<\/span><\/p>\n If you believe the existence of one Jewish state on the planet is not only illegitimate but that the key to solving all of the world\u2019s problems is bound up in its destruction, then you are ready to believe any charge against it, no matter how false or outrageous. The toxic ideologies that enable such bizarre notions are also responsible for the surge in worldwide antisemitism, not least in New York City, where Mamdani has been forced to acknowledge<\/a><\/span> that Jews are being targeted for hate crimes on his watch out of all proportion to their percentage of the population. And that is a far greater problem than a mayor who thinks that pleasing his base obligates him to make empty threats about arresting Israel\u2019s head of government.<\/span><\/p>\n The embrace of critical race theory, intersectionality and settler-colonialism by the American education system and so much of popular culture has materially altered public discourse not merely about race, but about antisemitism and Israel. The belief that Israel and Jews are \u201cwhite\u201d oppressors, and that Palestinians are oppressed \u201cpeople of color\u201d who are their perennial victims, is contrary to the facts about both peoples. Jews are the most oppressed people of the last two millennia, and the majority of Israelis are people of color by the definitions of the American left since they trace their origins to North Africa and the Middle East.<\/span><\/p>\n The perpetuation of the conflict is the function of the fact that any outcome other than Israel\u2019s destruction and the genocide of the Jews living there is an injustice the Palestinians cannot abide.<\/span><\/p>\n Once you buy into those myths, it\u2019s easy to believe the blood libels about Jews committing genocide, whose downfall could liberate all of humankind. And if you swallow that, it\u2019s easy to understand why a Democratic Party under the sway of Mamdani\u2019s fellow left-wingers has accepted the hostility to Israel that has, alongside opposition to enforcing immigration laws, become the organizing principle of American politics.<\/span><\/p>\n The real problem behind Mamdani\u2019s latest publicity stunt isn\u2019t merely a function of unjustified anger at Israelis and Jews. As an essay<\/a><\/span> by historian Niall Ferguson and AI researcher John-Clark Levin in The Free Press<\/i> argues, the same factors are responsible for the growth of Holocaust denial and what they call \u201cThe Death of History.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Ferguson and Levin believe what we are witnessing in our public discourse, both on the left and the far-right, is a \u201ccomeback\u201d of the same sort of genocidal hatred for Jews that led to the Shoah in the mid-20th century. Ferguson has spent a lifetime writing histories and producing documentaries warning that accepting these vile ideas leads to tragedy. But he has come to believe that his work\u2014and that of other historians\u2014is increasingly looking like it was all in vain because it is being overridden by social-media algorithms designed to spread hate. While in the past, thought leaders like conservative writer William F. Buckley were able to banish believers in these ideas from the political mainstream, now such efforts are failing.<\/span><\/p>\n Instead of denying the Holocaust, political commentators and podcasters on the far-right like Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens and Nick Fuentes \u201cmock and celebrate it.\u201d That amuses right-wing youth, who get their knowledge of the world from social-media feeds. Those on the left then \u201ccleverly blend it with anti-Zionism and anti-capitalism.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Ferguson and Levin point out that \u201cas it is young voters who are most susceptible to these trends, the implications for the future of American politics are chilling.\u201d It explains a lot about Mamdani\u2019s appeal. It also shows how he can flip the narrative about the conflict between Israel and its genocidal foes. That is what is behind the accusations against Netanyahu and the widespread belief that it is Israel that is committing \u201cgenocide.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n The lies that Mamdani\u2014and those who echo his smears in outlets like the Times<\/i>\u2014tell about Israel are easily refuted by those who array the facts about the conflict against them in the same manner serious historians can answer Holocaust deniers. Still, the problem is that this only works against arguments that at least pretend to be reasoned.<\/span><\/p>\n But the algorithms that spread the new big antisemitic lies aren\u2019t pretending to be rational. They are a function of manipulated images and rage about alleged crimes that are difficult to refute online. As Ferguson and Levin note, \u201cThe algorithms reflect our own vices back to us\u2014and magnify them. As long as we indulge our wrathful impulses, we\u2019ll see more rage bait that stokes them. As long as we give in to our short attention spans, our news feeds will carpet-bomb our brains with dopamine. As long as we guzzle flattering lies, the truth will be muscled off our screens by propaganda.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n That\u2019s a sobering thought that puts the failures of pro-Israel voices to effectively counter the \u201cgenocide\u201d blood libels in perspective.<\/span><\/p>\n With respect to Holocaust denial, historians now feel as if they are helpless to combat the fallout of so many lies.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIn the face of an avalanche of AI-powered anti-history, the real historians are powerless. We thought we could prevail in a fair fight about what really happened in the past. We naively believed that, if we went to the right archives, and read the right documents, and summarized them with the right footnotes, and published our scholarly books and peer-reviewed articles, then the Holocaust deniers would be driven from the field. What fools we were,\u201d Ferguson and Levin conclude.<\/span><\/p>\n The same problem applies to the debate about Israel. Similar rage-based distortions about the actions of the Jewish state and those of its genocidal foes\u2014combined with a biased media whose journalists have been indoctrinated in leftist ideologies about \u201cwhite\u201d oppressors\u2014have materially altered public opinion. If a plurality of Americans now tell pollsters<\/a><\/span> that they believe Israel has committed \u201cgenocide,\u201d it\u2019s not because of anything Netanyahu has said or done. It\u2019s because we live in a time when fast-paced technology has the power to persuade people to accept patently false assertions with much greater ease than the manner in which the Nazis employed print, film and radio nearly a century ago.<\/span><\/p>\n Answering this isn\u2019t going to be enabled with attempts to ban hate speech. It will, among other things, require the clever use of social media and technology. But as Ferguson and Levin assert, there is more to it than that. \u201cWe must recover a shared sense of moral responsibility not to contribute to the conditions that let a Fuentes thrive,\u201d they say. \u201cIt\u2019s a lesson that dates back to Cleon in ancient Athens. Ultimately, as Plato and Aristotle discovered, the only bulwark against demagogues is a people virtuous enough to resist their lure.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n A leering young mayor peddling blood libels against Jews like Mamdani doesn\u2019t seem to fear such a turnaround. Indeed, in an age where virtue seems conspicuously absent in our politics and culture, optimism about the future can be difficult to maintain.<\/span><\/p>\n Still, giving up isn\u2019t an option. And the rise of current advocates for antisemitism, the hatred of Jews and Israel, like the mayor, isn\u2019t unprecedented in history. They have been defeated before by decent people who are ready to heed fact-based journalism in the same way they have sometimes heeded the lessons of real, rather than AI-distorted, history.<\/span><\/p>\n What is required is not just better use of AI and social media by the forces of truth but an appeal to higher virtues by a new generation of journalists, artists and faith leaders that will undermine the appeal of social media-driven hate. It\u2019s a tall task, but there is no alternative available but to begin that fight.<\/span><\/p>\n Zawarto\u015b\u0107 publikowanych artyku\u0142\u00f3w i materia\u0142\u00f3w nie reprezentuje pogl\u0105d\u00f3w ani opinii Reunion’68,<\/em> Jonathan S. Tobin New York\u2019s mayor isn\u2019t going to arrest Israel\u2019s prime minister. But the widespread belief in the \u201cgenocide\u201d blood libel illustrates how toxic ideologies, AI and social media are defeating facts. Zohran Mamdani, mayor of New York City, on July 4, 2026. Credit: Office of the New York City Mayor. It didn\u2019t take […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[33,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132355"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132355"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132457,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132355\/revisions\/132457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}An empty threat<\/b><\/h4>\n
The \u2018genocide\u2019 myth<\/b><\/h4>\n
Social-media algorithms versus facts<\/b><\/h4>\n
AI images that feed rage<\/b><\/h4>\n
Can virtue defeat hate?<\/b><\/h4>\n
\nJonathan S. Tobin<\/strong> is editor-in-chief of the Jewish News Syndicate, a senior contributor for The Federalist, a columnist for Newsweek and a contributor to many other publications. He covers the American political scene, foreign policy, the U.S.-Israel relationship, Middle East diplomacy, the Jewish world and the arts. He hosts the JNS \u201cThink Twice\u201d podcast, both the weekly video program and the \u201cJonathan Tobin Daily\u201d program, which are available on all major audio platforms and YouTube. Previously, he was executive editor, then senior online editor and chief political blogger, for Commentary magazine. Before that, he was editor-in-chief of The Jewish Exponent in Philadelphia and editor of the Connecticut Jewish Ledger. He has won more than 60 awards for commentary, art criticism and other writing. He appears regularly on television, commenting on politics and foreign policy. Born in New York City, he studied history at Columbia University.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n
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