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Author Rita Kramer once wrote that anti-Semitism is the bedrock culture of Europe, always stirring within the great wars that have shaken the continent. The alarming escalation of anti-Semitism on the continent today would certainly bear this out. In the…
read moreThe following is an excerpt of an article co-authored by Mohammed Yaghi, an associate at the Washington Institute of Near East Policy and a columnist for al-Ayyam, and Ben Fishman, researcher and special assistant at The Washington Institute. The full…
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About Stanley Fish Stanley Fish is the Davidson-Kahn Distinguished University Professor and a professor of law at Florida International University, in Miami, and dean emeritus of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago.…
read moreLONDON — U.K. intelligence officials have just provided a chilling assessment of the terrorist threat Britain faces. The country has become “al Qaeda target No. 1,” security sources told me, confirming last week’s press reports. Intelligence services now judge Britain’s…
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A Syrian commercial vehicle rumbles across the Lebanon border along a possible smuggling route for Hezbollah. (AP/Kevork Djansezian) Even as the Israeli Defense Forces backed out of Lebanon this month, in accordance with an August 11 UN-brokered ceasefire agreement, there…
read moreProf. Bokser Liwerant teaches Political Science at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, where she heads the Graduate School of Political and Social Sciences; Prof. DellaPergola teaches at the A. Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry of the Hebrew University of…
read moreAbdel Monem Said Aly is Director of the Al Ahram Center for Political & Strategic Studies, Cairo, Egypt and a Senior Fellow at the Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University. The Sixth Arab-Israeli war, which began in July…
read moreRobert Fulford: At This Stage the Boycotters are Fighting a War of Language The people who have dreamt for years of making Israel appear illegitimate have recently concentrated on depicting its’ current struggle as a rerun of the fight within…
read moreNEW YORK, Oct. 17 (JTA) – Columbia University’s recent decision to limit attendance at a controversial lecture on the Arab-Israeli conflict is the latest in a string of flaps concerning free speech and the Middle East that have led to…
read morehttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2006/10/17/do1701.xml At long last, the debate on Islamism as politics, not Islam as religion, is out in the open. Two weeks ago, Jack Straw might have felt he was taking a risk when publishing his now notorious article on the…
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