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Washington is Burning
Graeme Garrard describes the events that led to the torching of the new US capital by British troops in August 1814 and considers the impact of the ‘greatest disgrace ever dealt to American arms’ on the US, Britain and Canada.
When James Madison, fourth President of the United States and ‘Father of the Constitution’, signed a declaration of war against Britain on June 18th, 1812 he could scarcely have imagined that two years later he would be fleeing from his burning capital before the invading enemy. At the start of the ‘War of 1812’, the first the US had declared on another nation, his friend and predecessor as president, Thomas Jefferson, had smugly declared that the war against Britain’s colonies in what is today Canada would be ‘a mere matter of marching’. As Madison abandoned the White House on horseback with his entourage and raced towards Virginia on August 24th, 1814 he stopped and looked back as he beheld the ruined city of
JVP Got One Thing Right
Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), the fringe Anti-Zionist organization that tenderly serves up their Jewish identity to those that seek to exploit it, stoked fresh controversy this month with their latest event: a panel discussion about anti-Semitism featuring controversial anti-Zionist figures Rashida Tlaib, Marc Lamont Hill and Peter Beinart. The panel took place on December 15 and can be viewed on JVP’s Facebook page.
The panel was mostly an incoherent mess of hollow platitudes focused on intersectional messaging. JVP continued to deny the well-documented history of anti-Zionist persecution of Jews, thus undermining important insights into the threat of anti-Semitism in 2021.