It made big headlines in Israel on Wednesday, February 21, but I don’t imagine it got more than scant attention, if that much, anywhere else. “Police thwart major suicide attack.” That’s not front-page news in America or England-unless, that is,…
read moreAnyone who hopes for peace should be horrified by the content of the latest set of Palestinian schoolbooks. In many respects, these new books for Grade 12, written by Fatah-appointed Palestinian educators, are the worst of the textbooks produced by…
read moreHere are a few of many more salient details that highlight the striking geopolitical similarities between the phased destruction of Czechoslovakia by British diplomacy and German aggression and the betrayal and phased destruction of Israel by Anglo-American and EU/U.N. diplomacy…
read moreIt is hard to criticize an icon. Jimmy Carter’s humanitarian work has saved countless lives. Yet his life has also been shaped by the Bible, where the Hebrew prophets taught us to speak truth to power. So I write. Carter’s…
read moreIn 1915, John Dewey of Columbia University and Arthur Lovejoy of Johns Hopkins University came together with other educators to establish the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), an organization designed to preserve the integrity of the academy from a…
read moreA paradox confounded the 180 activists and intellectuals gathered in Jerusalem in mid-February for the Israeli Foreign Ministry’s Global Forum Against Anti-Semitism. As historian Robert Wistrich noted, anti-Semitism has never been so illegitimate – broadly denounced by international bodies –…
read moreDear Board…Happy Purim… Let’s keep this Not Quite The Faculty Forum amongst ourselves…it will self destruct in 24 hours. Chag Purim Sameach…
read moreThe decision by the Academy Awards to give an Oscar to the hit mini-comedy film “West Bank Story” only proves what I and others have been saying all along. Palestinians, Israelis and even other audiences want humor, even when the…
read moreTHOSE WHO SEE a military attack on Iran as inevitable are relying on a specific interpretation and image of that country: Iran supports terrorism and develops weapons of mass destruction. The terms “WMD” and “terror” generate panic and fear, and…
read moreWe all know the Iranian M.O. — nuclear proliferation, Holocaust denial, threats to wipe out Israel, vicious anti-Western rhetoric, lavish sponsorship of terrorists at work attacking Israel and destabilizing Lebanon. If that were not enough, we now learn that Iran…
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