After a closely contested election. Georgia will hold two run-off elections to select its senators, one of which pits the incumbent Kelly Loeffler against Raphael Warnock, a Baptist pastor. In a 2018 sermon, Warnock accused Israel of “shoot[ing] down unarmed Palestinian sisters and brothers like birds of prey, . . . like they don’t matter at all,” adding that “Black lives matter. Palestinian lives matter.” David Harsanyi doesn’t accept the defense that these words amount to mere “criticism” of the Jewish state:

March 15 marks the beginning of this year’s Israel Apartheid Week, during which campus groups around the world hold rallies and events for the purpose of defaming the Jewish state and mustering support for the movement to boycott, divest from, and sanction it (BDS). Richard Kemp comments: