The Biden Administration Redefines Antisemitism

Opposing antisemitism is easy, because everyone is on your side. Already 100 years ago, Henry Ford’s Dearborn Independent, in its notorious series “The International Jew,” complained that the term “antisemitism” is “used indiscriminately and...

San Remo Conference: Catalyst for Jewish and Arab independence

The San Remo Conference held on 24 / 25 April 1920 marked the beginning of self-determination for both the Jewish People after 3000 years of dispersion and the Arabs after 400 years of Ottoman...

British worry me, says Israeli PM Netanyahu: The Israeli prime minister tells Charles Moore...

Benjamin Netanyahu, in his office in Jerusalem, stands in front of a photograph of his greatest British hero, Winston Churchill Photo: DEBBIE HILL By Charles Moore 11:06AM GMT 26 Feb 2011 310 Comments "When I attended an...

We need the guts to say no to Rice

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and his successor Ehud Olmert justified unilateral disengagement on the grounds that we were obliged to take initiatives to break the impasse in the absence of a Palestinian peace partner. In...

Never Again was the reaction to the Shoah; now it helps us understand why...

Dear Friends, I was walking home today in midtown Manhattan and, to my horror, there was a brightly lit up truck declaring “NYC for the Palestinians, Israel must be stopped”.  This started me thinking –...

Is the U.N. making the Palestinian ‘refugee’ problem worse?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/post/is-the-un-making-the-palestinian-refugee-problem-worse/2012/05/23/gJQAxW0BkU_blog.html Until recently, few Americans ever heard of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). But then Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) got interested in what the agency, supposedly neutral in the...

Awash In Refugees, Whose Needs Come First?

We are awash in refugees, today, especially with the disaster taking place in Syria. We have limited resources -- human and financial. We must prioritize the needs of all these people; caught in a...

A nation once again?

http://www.gloria-center.org/2012/12/a-nation-once-again/ In Syria, the Assad regime’s retreat back to Damascus and the Alawi heartlands in the west of the country has made possible the emergence of a Kurdish autonomous area in the country’s northeast. This area...

The Day After Tomorrow

I teach film, among other things, and there is a film that comes to mind while assessing the current situation in Israel. It is the 1996 American science fiction action film Independence Day. In the aftermath of a...

Why Does the US Government Not Examine the Curriculum of the Palestinian Authority Before...

Our news agency has asked the US Embassy in Tel Aviv as to why it was providing funds to the Palestinian Authority school system, coinsidering the nature of the curriculum, as translated at www.edume.org The...