In Tablet, Lee Smith provides a sombre view of the metastasizing global empire of Palestine. Though founded upon strong support in the West Bank and Gaza, the empire has a much broader scope than negotiating two non-contiguous plots of land. Smith explains how a performative cult of death that should be self-extinguishing is sustained by cynical and/or nihilist forces the world over.

A Spite That Knows No Bounds
Gratingly awful global scold Greta Thunberg’s latest stunt is to turn on her own motherland. Sweden has been very good to her, but the former social-democratic paradise’s mugging by the realities of uncontrolled immigration do not sit well with the keffiyeh-clad rabblerouser. “For years, Sweden took more asylum seekers per capita than any other country in Europe,” writes Fredrik Karrholm in The Spectator. “Now asylum numbers have fallen to their lowest level since 1985.”


