A Clubbable Admission: Palestine’s Case for UN Membership 

Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair

“I find it rather difficult to make it clear to my children why we are not eligible, for from one point of view it isn’t quite clear to me.”

– X, “The Jew and the Club,” The Atlantic, October 1924.

It must surely make certain ethnic and religious groups reflect, notably those languishing in minority status for decades, if not centuries.  There was a time when the rental advertisements in London had such caustic couplings as “Irish and Blacks...