In a wide-ranging discussion, Chloé Valdary talks about growing up in Louisiana in a devout Christian family that observed the Hebrew Bible’s prescriptions, the ways in which intersectionality encourages hatred for Jews and the Jewish state, anti-Semitism in the contemporary left, and the right way to advocate the case for Israel on college campuses. (Interview by David Rubin. Audio, 69 minutes.)

According to the Lebanese government, the explosion in its capital city on Tuesday that left over 100 dead and many more injured or homeless was caused by the accidental detonation of some 2,750 of ammonium nitrate, a fertilizer often used for making bombs. (Less than one-thousandth of that amount was used by Timothy McVeigh to destroy the Oklahoma City federal building in 1995.) Previously, police have discovered Hizballah warehouses in London and Germany storing many tons of the same explosive. Hussein Ibish comments: