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May 10, 2006 Here we go again

The horror is back. As was entirely predictable, there is to be another attempt this year at an academic boycott of Israel. This one is to come not as last year from the AUT but the rival higher education union,…

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NATFHE: Chuck out 198C!

The union that covers staff in the newer universities is to consider a further resolution on boycotting Israeli universities at its conference in Blackpool later this month. There are reports in the Israeli media that suggest that the resolution facing…

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A SAGE IN CHRISTENDOM

(Fouad Ajami, Majid Khadduri Professor at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies, is author of “The Foreigner’s Gift: The Americans, the Arabs, and the Iraqis in Iraq,” forthcoming from the Free Press in July and can be pre-ordered…

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AND NOW FOR SOME FACTS

(Benny Morris, a professor Middle East history at Ben-Gurion University. The full text of this article can be read on TNR ’s website.) John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt’s “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy” is a nasty…

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Spare the Rod, Spoil The Peace

Spare the Rod, Spoil the Peace Font Size: By J. Peter Pham & Michael I. Krauss: BIO | 28 Apr 2006 Discuss This Story! (18) Email | Print | Bookmark | Save The Bush administration announced earlier this month that…

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Rebuttals to Mearsheimer & Walt’s Israel Lobby

Rebuttals to Mearsheimer and Walt Some Rebuttals to Mearsheimer & Walt’s “Israel Lobby” The manifesto attacking the “Israel Lobby” and its alleged stranglehold on US policy in the Middle East by two prominent “realist” academics, John Mearsheimer of the University…

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Strange Bedfellows

Strange Bedfellows By George Michael George Michael is an assistant professor of political science and administration of justice at the University of Virginia’s College at Wise. Next week the University Press of Kansas will publish his book The Enemy of…

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