Article originally appeared on thefederalist.com.
Monday is the anniversary of the beginning of Hamas and Hezbollah’s reign of terror in Israel. We’ve heard countless horrific stories of the events of Oct. 7, while the Foundation for Defense of Democracies reports that, according to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) over the past year, 19,000 unguided rockets have been fired at the Jewish state. We’ve also been horrified and outraged by the vicious attacks and threats directed at Jews in our own country, including those on prestigious college campuses and in major cities.
Still, if you are not literary-minded and not Jewish, you may not be aware of what happened to the writer Elisa Albert when she tried to take the stage at the Albany Book Festival last month.
Although our politics clash (Albert’s an ardent feminist and passionate leftist), I’ve long admired the author. Primarily a fiction writer, she has published three …
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