The Simon Wiesenthal Center has issued a travel advisory for Jews thinking about travelling to France or Belgium: FRANCE — In the last 18 months there have been over 400 hate crimes against Jewish targets in France including, in recent days, arson attacks against synagogues, Jewish institutions, beatings of Jewish school children and pedestrians and other acts of threats and intimidation in Paris, Marseilles, Lyon and other communities. As a

For those of you looking to take a break from Mideast news, check out Reason science correspondent Ron Bailey’s “Green with Ideology” — a critically-minded look at (and rebuttal of) the “scientific community’s” attack on Bjorn Lomborg’s The Skeptical Environmentalist. A teaser: The bitter anti-Lomborg campaign reveals the hidden crisis of what we might call ideological environmentalism. Ideological environmentalism goes far beyond sensible efforts to reduce pollution or protect wilderness.

Breaking news: Israel

Insight on the News interviews Daniel Pipes. A sample: Insight: Do you think there is a relationship between Middle Eastern scholarship as it has been conducted in the universities in the United States and Europe and the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11? DP: Yes, indirectly. Scholars have been apologizing for militant Islam and dismissing its terrorist activities. They proclaimed militant Islam a source of democratization and civil society. Before 9/11,

Brian Finch has a nice Tech Central Station

Writing in The National Review, Michael Ledeen

Writing in The National Review, Michael Ledeen

Over on LGF, Charles Johnson posted the following picture, which has generated quite a bit of commentary. Within the comments section itself emerged a mini thread that I’d like to repost here. First, Mac Frazier writes: It’s this very sort of thing that drives away any sympathy I’ve ever had for the movement. ‘I value my cause more than my child.’ Then your cause must die. It’s not a rational