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The school year began with Israel firmly at the center of American politics and campus controversy. Anti-Israel demonstrations have roiled the Democratic Party and spread across campuses but universities have vowed to crack down on protests. At the same time,…
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Barak Mendelsohn is a Professor of Political Science at Haverford College. He holds a doctoral degree in Government from Cornell University, MA in Security Studies from Tel Aviv University, and BA in Middle East Studies from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem.…
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Gadi Taub is a Senior Lecturer at the Federmann School of public policy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He holds a Ph.D. in American History from Rutgers University. His books include bestselling works of fiction and non-fiction the most…
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Rabbi David Wolpe was a visiting scholar at Harvard Divinity School, the inaugural rabbinic fellow at the Anti-Defamation League, and the Max Webb Rabbi Emeritus of Sinai Temple in Los Angeles, CA. Named one of the 500 Most Influential People in…
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With the school year completed and the Gaza War dragging on, the BDS-originated crisis in American and global society is fully in view. From academia to the worlds of arts and culture, and all levels of politics, efforts to shun…
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Cary Nelson is Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts & Sciences Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an affiliated faculty member at the University of Haifa. He is the author or editor of 36 books, including six about…
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The main battleground for the Boycott Divestments and Sanctions (BDS) movement has been on the University campuses of the western world especially in Britain and the United States. Dr Ronnie Fraser will discuss how the campus protests against Israel’s war…
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Ilan Troen is emeritus of both the Stoll Family Chair in Israel Studies (Brandeis, 2017), and the Lopin Chair of Modern History (Ben-Gurion University, 2007). He has served as founding director of the Israel Studies centers at both institutions and…
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The spring semester is ending with a massive crisis across all levels of American education as campus takeovers, faculty and student walkouts, and harassment of Jewish students have brought many campuses to a standstill. The frequently heard calls of ‘death…
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Behnam Ben Taleblu is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), a non-partisan think-tank in DC where he covers Iranian political and security issues. Mr. Taleblu has worked on the Iran question at FDD for over…
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