Archbishop Desmond Tutu believed that the Europeans, filled with guilt over the Holocaust, had created the modern state of Israel. He did not know that even after the Holocaust, there was no outpouring of support for the Jews in Mandatory Palestine. The British continued to interdict ships full of Jewish survivors of the camps, […]

  Archbishop Desmond Tutu has just died at the age of 90. He was an opponent of apartheid in South Africa, like every person of sense, and he worked, of course “tirelessly” to undo it, for which he was lauded beyond all measure. Much of the world has responded to his death with over-the-top descriptions […]