She was a Cold Warrior who worked in the Reagan White House. But Mona Charen now considers Republicans enemies of democracy, and she won’t even call herself a conservative anymore.

There were Jewish conservatives who found a modus vivendi with a Trump-dominated GOP. But the Republicans’ reluctance to censure an openly antisemitic Congresswoman, Marjorie Taylor Greene, is a devastating blow, Jonathan Tobin writes.

Ari Paul describes how Jews in Georgia, Greene’s home state, fear she’ll be the vanguard of an ‘antisemitic resistance’ to wins made by progressives in the state, including electing its first Jewish Senator.

In Germany, Holocaust educators report they’re shocked by German Muslims’ ‘inappropriate’ response to Nazi Jew-hate. Esra Özyürek, who’s conducted 15 years of fieldwork on this issue, explains what’s considered ‘wrong’ with their reactions: Rather than remorse, they react with anxiety, fear – and radical empathy.

President Erdogan released an unusual three-minute video to mark Turkey’s Holocaust commemorations. Jews weren’t mentioned, Eldad Ben Aharon notes.

Meanwhile Israel has been roiled by mass disobedience to COVID regulations by the Haredi community, where infection rates are highest. Eric Yoffie warns that this is an insurrection.

Anshel Pfeffer describes how the Haredi state-within-a-state is flexing its muscles and its COVID dead are new Jewish martyrs dying for a higher cause.

Muhammad Shehada warns that a a Biden administration boycott of Hamas would be dangerously counter-productive.

Alex Griffing examines the strategic and policy-making mess Trump left behind in the Mideast, and what Biden needs to do to clean it up.  

And ICYMI: Dahlia Scheindlin tracks the Trump-taunting Lincoln Project coming to Israel - but they’re not here as liberal saviors.

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