The boycott that rattles Israel Israel’s anxiety about the BDS movement is, in itself, a measure of how seriously the country takes boycott politics. In Jerusalem, BDS is not treated as a marginal activist campaign but as a strategic instrument that can erode legitimacy, complicate diplomacy, chill investment…
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Hitchcock’s Decline and the CIA’s Intervention In 1968, the career of British filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock seemed to be nearing its end. After the lukewarm success of Marnie (1963), his next film, Torn Curtain (1966), starring two of the highest-paid actors of the time, Paul Newman and Julie Andrews,…