Новости за 14.11.2016

Israel is no exception to the fever for self-inflicted political crisis sweeping the democratic world. On Sunday, a Knesset ministerial committee endorsed a bill that would allow settlers to remain in Amona, a West Bank outpost that Israel’s Supreme Court ordered evacuated by December 25th, 2016 in a 2014 decision. On Monday, Israel’s Supreme Court issued another order, rejecting the government’s request to extend the evacuation deadline. As the Jerusalem Post notes, one way out of this impasse... Читать дальше...

The day after Donald Trump was elected president, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg decided to wear her dissent jabot that she typically dons when reading a summary of her dissenting opinion from the bench. But she didn’t read that Wednesday, as there were no decisions to be made, leading some people to believe that RBG wore that particular jabot to show her (continued) disliking of Trump.

Here’s an unfun Internet exercise: Head over to news.google.com and search for “swastika.” Lots pops up, now more than usual, which is more frequent than it ought to be in the first place.

My grandfather Siegfried was not a sophisticated man. When he bought a car—always the same car, a blue Peugeot 305, replaced every few years with a newer model of the same exact make—he kept the seats covered in plastic to keep them eternally clean. When you asked him for an apple, he’d hold the fruit in his hand and rotate it like a tiny globe, peeling it with his pocketknife and making sure to remove only the skin and none of the flesh. When I ran away, as a child of 6 or 7, to explore a park nearby... Читать дальше...

Over the past five-and-a-half years, the Obama White House has used the Syria echo chamber it created in the American press and on social media to defend and advance the president’s policy of nonintervention against the Assad regime. After the White House’s attempt to negotiate a deal to cooperate militarily with Russia in Syria fell apart last month, one of the administration’s most experienced Syria echo-chamber hands—Steven Simon—sprang into action.

Susan Faludi is one of America’s very few indispensable reporters—a category that gets thinner every year. Her books, which include Backlash and Stiffed, combine an activist’s passion for justice and truth with the skepticism of a noir detective on a case that she knows will never turn out the way it was pitched. Her flat, almost-affectless prose is a vehicle for her profound empathy for and insight into her subjects, regardless of whether they fall into politically or narratively convenient boxes. Читать дальше...