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Gil Troy is Professor of History at McGill University and the author most recently of a revised and expanded edition of „Why I Am A Zionist: Israel, Jewish Identity and the Challenges of Today“ „If combating anti-Semitism becomes only a…
read moreTHE CASE FOR DEMOCRACY http://www.jbooks.com/nonfiction/index/NF_Troy_Sharansky.htm The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny & Terror By Natan Sharansky with Ron Dermer 303 Pages. PublicAffairs. $26.95. For a different reading of The Case for Democracy, click here http://www.jbooks.com/nonfiction/index/NF_Scham_Sharansky.htm. Once upon a time,…
read moreThe Organization of American Historians has established an ad hoc Committee on Academic Freedom to “investigate reports of repressive measures” affecting historians. Yet the committee identified only violations from the government or the right. Sounding more like a moveon.org blogger…
read moreToday, I feel very alone, very concerned, and very sad. Concordia University has barred former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak from speaking on campus, citing a “security risk assessment” that deems hosting him too dangerous, and far too many of…
read moreGil Troy is a professor of history at McGill University, and the author, most recently, of “Why I Am A Zionist: Israel, Jewish Identity, and the Challenges of Today” (Gefen Books, $14.95). He is a frequent contributor to the Scholars…
read moreArts & Books Section. AGAINST ALL ENEMIES: INSIDE AMERICA’S WAR ON TERROR.by Richard A. Clarke,Simon & Schuster,320 pages, $37.350 Special to The Gazette “We got some passenger manifests from the airlines,” FBI counterterrorism chief Dale Watson informed his White House…
read moreMaybe I am missing something, but I just can’t get that excited about The Passion of the Christ, Mel Gibson’s flamboyantly terrible, excessively violent movie that reduces one of history’s most complicated and influential moments to a snuff video. The…
read moreProfessor of History, McGill University for Scholars for Peace in the Middle East Online Digest Amid this worldwide campaign to rob Israel of its good name, the long and proud association of Zionism with liberalism is also threatened. Too many…
read moreOn Wednesday, May 22, a bomb exploded at Yale Law School. Fortunately, no one was hurt. As of this writing, no one has taken “credit” for the violence nor have the authorities blamed any group, or linked the incident in…
read moreGil Troy is Professor of History at McGill University and the author of Why I Am A Zionist: Israel, Jewish Identity and the Challenges of Today. He is member of SPME Once again, during this year’s seders, we will celebrate…
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