http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=520950 Anthropology and African-American studies professor J. Lorand Matory ’82 thinks so. At a recent Faculty meeting, he proposed that Harvard reaffirm “civil dialogue,” arguing that critics of Israel “tremble in fear” on campus. In fear of what, one wonders-becoming…
read moreHerewith some thoughts about tomorrow’s Annapolis peace conference, and the larger problem of how to approach the Israel-Palestine conflict. The first question (one might think it is obvious but apparently not) is, “What is the conflict about?” There are basically…
read morehttp://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=111&FID=376&PID=0&IID=1942 After being sworn into office in 2001, the Bush administration informed the Israeli government that the Clinton proposals “were off the table.” The Bush Letter of April 14, 2004, received by Israel as a quid pro quo for the…
read morehttp://www.iht.com/articles/2007/11/20/opinion/edkurtzer.php Condoleezza Rice is playing a high-stakes game of diplomacy. After cautious bets during her first three years as secretary of state, she is going all-in on a summit meeting at Annapolis to launch final status negotiations. Her odds of…
read morehttp://washingtontimes.com/article/20071121/EDITORIAL/111210011/1013/EDITORIAL Five years ago, the special Project Daniel Group first advised Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on the threat of Iranian nuclear weapons. Our final report urged the prime minister to enhance Israel’s deterrence and defense postures, to consider an…
read morehttp://hprsite.squarespace.com/the-israeli-perspective-112007/ In the summer issue of HPR, World Section Editor Andrew Miller sat down with the PLO’s ambassador to the United States. For this issue, he spoke with Itamar Rabinovich, Israel’s former representative in this country, about the most pressing…
read morehttp://www.religiousintelligence.co.uk/news/?NewsID=1183 NEXT WEEK’S Annapolis conference will be more important in what happens afterwards, a leading expert has claimed. Speaking to Religious Intelligence, Prof Shai Feldman, director of the Crown Center at Brandeis University, said that it was unrealistic to expect…
read morehttp://www.columbia.edu/cu/current/articles/fall2007/ideology-over-integrity-in-academe.html Is this Columbia University? A professor of anthropology calls for a million Mogadishus, a professor of Arabic and Islamic Science tells a girl she isn’t a Semite because her eyes are green, and a professor of Persian hails the…
read morehttp://www.columbia.edu/cu/current/articles/fall2007/searching-for-facts-on-the-ground.html The very title of the Nadia Abu El-Haj’s Facts on the Ground invites controversy. The phrase “facts on the ground” originally referred to a cardinal principle of the post-1967 Israeli settler movement, which held that by building and occupying…
read morehttp://www.columbia.edu/cu/current/articles/fall2007/nadia-abu-el-haj.html The debate surrounding the consideration of Dr. Nadia Abu El-Haj’s application for tenure at Columbia University highlighted far larger questions for contemporary academe: Can tendentious, politically motivated, subjective, polemical, unbalanced, and/or intentionally misleading and inaccurate publications qualify the possessor…
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