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  • Effectively combating antisemitism

    Julio Messer and Gerald Platt|Feb 27, 2026

    (JNS) — Antisemitism, an enduring scourge that has plagued humanity for centuries, has resurged in recent years, challenging the assumption that the Holocaust fundamentally transformed attitudes toward Jews. For roughly three-quarters of a century after World War II, antisemitism was pushed to the margins of public life. Expressions of hatred were widely condemned and considered socially unacceptable. Today, that restraint is eroding. We are witnessing a troubling return of open hostility toward Jews, one that threatens the foundations of d...

  • The EMP threat to the West

    Gerald Platt|Jul 5, 2024

    (JNS) — An EMP is essentially a large nuclear bomb that explodes in the outer atmosphere. In a cone-shaped area below, all electricity infrastructures and electronic devices fail. The area can be predetermined by arranging the size of the cone beforehand. So, for example, an attack could be focused on greater Chicago or the entire Midwest. The explosion causes no immediate deaths. But after roughly 10 days, many people will die due to lack of food (because refrigeration is impossible), water (most water is delivered by electric pumps), w...