The Crown Center for Middle East Studies presents the fifth Middle East Brief: “Nuclear Decision-Making in Iran: A Rare Glimpse” by Chen Kane. This Brief provides a unique and in-depth analysis of Iran’s decisions to advance its nuclear program. By…
read moreWASHINGTON – Jewish community leaders have urged the White House to refrain from publicly pledging to defend Israel against possible Iranian hostilities, senior Jewish activists told the Forward. Messages were passed to the White House through several channels, Jewish activists…
read moreMarch 27 When “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy” first appeared on the Web site of Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government this month, the paper’s title page featured the globe and Harvard seal that make up…
read moreIlka Shroeder (or Schroder) was the Green Party EU Parliament rep last seen speaking out against EU support for the Palestinian Authority two years ago. See previous: llka Shroder: The War Against Israel and Growing European Nationalism. A quick quote…
read moreThe New Anti-SemitismBernard Lewis The American Scholar – Volume 75 No. 1 Winter 2006 pp. 25-36 There is a well-worn platitude that we have all heard many times before: it is perfectly legitimate to criticize the actions and policies of…
read moreThe 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,…
read moreThe 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…
read more| Bild: | What kind of role does anti-Semitism play in the Middle East Conflict? At what point does opposition to Israel turn into anti-Semitism? These issues are discussed by Brian Klug, British philosopher and journalist, and Robert Wistrich, director…
read moreIn the spring of 1995 in Gaza City, I met Musa Ziyada, a 15-year-old boy with huge almond eyes. He had apparently been recruited by Hamas, the radical Islamist group, to carry out a suicide bombing in Israel — a…
read moreWe wrote ‘The Israel Lobby’ in order to begin a discussion of a subject that had become difficult to address openly in the United States (LRB, 23 March ). We knew it was likely to generate a strong reaction, and…
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