In Tablet Mag, Alvin H. Rosenfeld reminds readers of the brutality of Hamas’s assault on Israelis last October 7. Much more than a single act of war, Rosenfeld situates the attack in the broader Arab-Israeli conflict. He suggests it reinvigorated anti-Semitism globally and is advancing an “annihilationist fantasy” that he likens to another Auschwitz.

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.”


