In Jewish World Review, Jonathan Tobin looks at Ta-Nehisi Coates’ new book on the Middle East, The Message, and the (mostly) laudatory news coverage it has received. While he’s hailed as a literary genius, Coates’ claim that the experiences of Palestinians are analogous to that of blacks in Jim Crow-era America is wildly misinformed and inaccurate, Tobin explains.
Yay Brexit!
Brendan O’Neill in Spiked enthuses that Brexit is superior to just about anything else in the world. “There should be street parties” on the 10th anniversary of the popular vote to withdraw from the EU, he writes. “Let the bells peal for that momentous day when in our millions we said No to globalism.” The continuing surfeit of saboteurs and naysayers among Britain’s “idiot elites”, O’Neill snorts, are gripped by Brexit Derangement Syndrome.
