Published: May 16, 2024
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For those who don’t know the background, this is an Israeli Jewish scholar—one of the world’s leading historians—detained by the FBI.
I had the privilege of attending one of his lectures at Oxford in recent months. The contrast between his knowledge, humility, humor, and kindness and the ignorance, depravity, and malice of the authoritarian bureaucracy that detained him in service of bloodshed is profound.