The US-backed Israeli assault on Lebanon has left the country numb, smouldering and angry. The massacre in Qana and the loss of life is not simply “disproportionate”. It is, according to existing international laws, a war crime. The deliberate and…
read moreThe recent motion by the U.K.’s largest university union (NAFTHE) recommending a boycott of all Israeli academics who “do not publicly dissociate themselves” from Israeli policies has reignited the debate around this issue (“Over protests, U.K. union endorses boycott of…
read moreLast weekend there were two peace demonstrations in London. One was organised by George Galloway’s Stop the War Coalition, the other by the Jewish community. People who opposed the war had to pick their protest: either “Yes to Peace, No…
read morehttp://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/012/525jrdwu.asp THE MIDDLE EAST STUDIES ASSOCIATION, the professional gatekeeper of American academic orthodoxy on all matters Islamic, has posted the lineup of presentations for its upcoming meeting in Boston this November. As always, what’s not going to be talked about…
read moreThe conflict in the Middle East is about much more than Israel and Hezbollah, or even Hezbollah’s Syrian and Iranian sponsors. What is at stake are the very rules of war that underpin the entire international order. Sadly, judging from…
read moreThis week’s tragic deaths in the Lebanese town of Qana are the result of a tactic being employed by Hezbollah against Israel — with considerable success, it must be acknowledged. It is the wave of the future for well-armed terrorist…
read morehttp://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/2668 http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2006/08/juan_cole_and_yale_the_inside.html Early last month, when it emerged that Yale University had decided to reject the appointment of University of Michigan professor Juan Cole, he blamed a “concerted press campaign by neoconservatives…[which] was inappropriate and a threat to academic integrity.”…
read moreLeft anti-semitism http://www.workersliberty.org/node/6705 Thomas Haury, University of Freiburg, Germany has written extensively about left anti-semitism in both pre- and post-unification Germany. His best-known work is “Anti-Semitism on the Left”, a lengthy study of anti-semitism (anti-Zionism) in the early years of…
read moreWe shall not win this war because it is an isolated battle; just another promotional campaign leading to the real war whose signs are already on the horizon: The third world war – Islam’s war against the free world http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3284057,00.html…
read moreWhat other country, when attacked in an unprovoked aggression across a recognized international frontier, is then put on a countdown clock by the world, given a limited time window in which to fight back, regardless of whether it has restored…
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