Jewish Features Op-Ed

We Jews Have the Honor of Being Hated

by Bret Stephens After Édouard Manet caused a firestorm in the late 1860s with his politically provocative paintings The Execution of Maximilian, he got a consoling note from his friend, the poet and critic Charles Baudelaire. “Monsieur,” Baudelaire wrote, “it seems you have the honor of inspiring hatred.” And that, in a sentence, is also the state […]