Jaspreet Singh Boparai

Dec 22, 2024 | thecritic.co.uk | Jaspreet Singh Boparai

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Nov 17, 2024 | quillette.com | Gerfried Ambrosch |Jaspreet Singh Boparai |Oliver Jia |Jack Zhou

Anti-Israel activists in Germany who call on the country to “free Palestine from German guilt” not only downplay our Holocaust responsibility but also ignore the significant role that German antisemites played in shaping anti-Zionism in the Middle East. Their influence reflects a deep-rooted and enduring anti-Zionist strain within German antisemitism that predates even the rise of Nazism. I’m not suggesting that Germany is to blame for Jew-hatred and anti-Israel sentiment in the Middle East.

Nov 14, 2024 | quillette.com | Jaspreet Singh Boparai |Oliver Jia |Jack Zhou |Richard Hanania

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Nov 14, 2024 | quillette.com | Jaspreet Singh Boparai |Oliver Jia |Jack Zhou |Richard Hanania

When Gore Vidal died in 2012, he had been famous for six and a half decades. He was one of the best-known writers in America, although he was far better known for being a writer than for any specific thing he wrote. This might be due to the sheer volume and range of his output: plays, screenplays, TV scripts, historical novels, satires, literary essays, political jeremiads and memoirs, in addition to a vast personal correspondence. He rivals Groucho Marx as a source of quotable one-liners.

Sep 1, 2024 | quillette.com | Allan Stratton |Ronald Dworkin |Jonathan Kay |Jaspreet Singh Boparai

It’s hard for a novelist to make a double axe-murderer sympathetic, especially when his victims are an old woman and her mentally disabled half-sister. In addition to which, this murderer is a remorseless antisemite who rationalises his motives and considers himself to be above society. A second character is an alcoholic whose addiction has bankrupted his family and forced his teenage daughter into prostitution. Surely the novelist has created a hellscape from which absolution is impossible.