Studying Antisemitism on Campus

http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/1085/studying-antisemitism-on-campus A very gallant Dr. Charles Asher Small just delivered an important lecture at the 92nd St Y. in New York. Yes, this is the same Dr. Small who, in 2004, founded the Institute for...

How Benzion Netanyahu Helped Put in the U.N. Charter A Clause That Could Yet...

http://www.nysun.com/foreign/how-benzion-netanyahu-helped-put-in-the-un/87809/ Benzion Netanyahu, who died Monday in Jerusalem at the age of 102, has been widely scrutinzed this week for his myriad contributions to the history of Zionism in Israel and the United States. Yet...

Context of a hunger strike: Convicts, not prisoners

http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/context-of-a-hunger-strike-convicts-not-prisoners/ The media around the world are covering the hunger strike conducted by Arabs in Israeli jails, many of whom were convicted in a court of law for murder or attempted murder. In the communications that...

Pro-Palestinian or Anti-Israel?

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3035/pro-palestinian-anti-israel Pro-Palestinian groups and individuals in the US and Europe are doing Palestinians injustice by devoting all their energies only against Israel. There is a feeling in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that most of...

Here’s What Middle Eastern Moderates Actually Think and Say

http://rubinreports.blogspot.com/2012/05/heres-what-middle-eastern-moderates.html Over and over again I hear them: Egyptians who have lost hope that their country can be saved from Islamist dictatorship (this is what the people want, one says); the Lebanese who can no...

Inciting Genocide Is a Crime

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303592404577364283553552766.html?mod=googlenews_wsj Many of Iran's crimes are well-known to Americans and observers world-wide. The Tehran regime wants to build a nuclear weapon despite being a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty; it supports the brutal crackdown...

Ben Zion Netanyahu, the Mufti and the U.S. election of 1946

http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/21212/ When I as a high school student at Akiba Hebrew Academy in Philadelphia in the 1960’s, our high school history teacher, Dr. Harold Gorvine, did everything that he could to make history come alive...

Where 8,000 Rocket Launches Are Not a Casus Belli

http://www.jinsa.org/visiting-fellows/evelyn-gordon/where-8000-rocket-launches-are-not-casus-belli The most chilling comment I've seen on the mid-March surge of violence from Gaza, when terrorists fired 300 rockets at Israel in four days, was made almost three weeks earlier. The rocket fire had...

Nationalism, Social Justice, and Civil Rights: Palestinian Discourse on the Social Networks, April 2012

http://www.inss.org.il/upload/%28FILE%291335769071.pdf With a lack of consensus in the Palestinian camp on various issues and numerous obstacles to the two main political processes - the political process with Israel and internal Palestinian reconciliation - social network...

Abbas’s Police State

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/04/30/abbas_s_police_state?page=0,1 President Barack Obama's administration has loudly touted its efforts to protect peaceful activists across the globe from regimes that would oppress them. On April 26, the White House issued an executive order to stop...