https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10204209227297029&id=1417549275
The above video (I hope it’s accessible) demonstrates the extent to which the region is shaping Israel.
Arguably Israel’s high birth rate is a function of its neighborhood. If the Arab birth rate had collapsed (as it is in the process of doing so) a decade or so earlier there wouldn’t have been the paranoia about raising Jewish birth rates.
The arrest of the young American Jew (who probably hasn’t worn a Kippah more than a few times in his life) is highlighting the stark contradiction & power of American liberalism. The West helps us forget the parochial elements of belonging to a tribe and Premier Netanyahu seems intent on Greater Israel in the Middle East rather than a more compact Meditterranean littoral.
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Razib Khan is a Bangladeshi-American geneticist and writer. He is co-founder of Brown Pundits and runs Unsupervised Learning, a Substack on population genetics, evolution, history, and politics with more than 55,000 subscribers, alongside the accompanying podcast. He has blogged at Gene Expression since the early 2000s.
His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, National Review, Slate, India Today, Quillette, and UnHerd. He is Director of Operations at FUTO in Austin, Texas, and co-founder of GenRAIT, a life-sciences platform company. Earlier in his career he developed ancestry algorithms for Gene by Gene, the Genographic Project, and Insitome, and was among the first employees at Embark Veterinary.
Born in Dhaka and raised in upstate New York and eastern Oregon, he holds degrees in biochemistry (2000) and biology (2006) from the University of Oregon, and undertook doctoral work in genomics and genetics at UC Davis. He lives in Austin.
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