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Last month, Yale shut down its institute for the study of contemporary anti-Semitism. The reasons for that shut-down, and the furor surrounding it, suggest that it may not be possible to have a university program on that subject that’s either…
read moreYale just killed the country’s best institute for the study of anti-Semitism. If Yale doesn’t want it, Washington should grab the institute before it goes anywhere else. For the past five years, the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of…
read moreMeeting a friend in a coffee shop in an old West Jerusalem neighbourhood, I asked him what he wanted most in life. One of the giants of Israel’s intellectual life, my friend is deeply committed to Israel’s existence as a…
read morehttp://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.antisemitism18jun18,0,7904927.story The murder of a guard at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington last week was a tragedy. But it’s also a reminder of anti-Semitism’s return. The museum is a memorial to, and tells the story of, the…
read morehttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/mesh/2008/08/can_antisemitism_be_amusing/ I guess this little absurdist clip would be funny if not for Captain Shahada’s comment about the Jews being “the most despicable sect in the world,” if not for the respect he has for Hitler for having “subdued the…
read morehttp://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.karadzic27jul27,0,6932191.story You want to understand the evil of Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb leader who was arrested last week for war crimes committed in the Balkans during the early 1990s? Then read the obituary that has just appeared of…
read morewww.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.israel08may08,0,3021820.story TEL AVIV, Israel As Israel celebrates its 60th birthday, there’s a remarkable spirit and courage here. Despite the rising tide of Islamism that surrounds the country and the constant threats to destroy it, Israel bustles with energy, commerce, science…
read moreDr. Reich is a professor of international affairs, ethics and human behavior at George Washington University, a senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center, a founding member of the Council on Global Terrorism, and the editor of “Origins of Terrorism:…
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