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My article of last Monday, It's Time to Drop the Jew Taboo, caused a firestorm of interest, praise, and criticism.
It now has over 110,000 views on RI, has been republished on several other sites, including the Unz Review, and has generated a handful of articles both praising and damning it. This is precisely what I had hoped for - the whole point of the article was to say that we, America and Europe, need to discuss this openly - and this now appears to be happening.
Without my soliciting it, a Russian reader sent in a truly excellent translation, which very accurately captures not just the sense of the article, but also the style. I deal with translations every day and they usually serve to mortify prose, but this one succeeds in bringing it alive, for which I am truly grateful. 5000 words is a lot to translate, I can assure you, and I think that this happened so quickly and professionally says a lot. Reportedly a Spanish translation is in the works.
I just published it on the Russian version of our site. We do not maintain that page very actively, only occasionally publishing there. I imagine that the topic should be of interest to the Russian public.
Radio Liberty, which is not a radio station, but a Russian language website put out by the US government info services, did a silly and misleading hatchet job in Russian on the article the day after it appeared: Anti-Semites of the World - Unite!, probably not considering that the original would soon appear in Russian. Now the Russian reader can judge for themselves if they made a fair representation.
I would ask readers to please share this excellent translation with their Russian friends and acquaintances.
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