Maybe I am missing something, but I just can’t get that excited about The Passion of the Christ, Mel Gibson’s flamboyantly terrible, excessively violent movie that reduces one of history’s most complicated and influential moments to a snuff video. The…
read moreTwenty-five years ago, the leaders of Israel and Egypt – Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat – signed a treaty that ended decades of warfare. The treaty and its implementation are far from perfect, but the framework of peace has been…
read moreMilitant Islamists are forming a twisted alliance with Europe’s left to spread virulent anti-Semitism that targets both Jews and America. One of the few certainties of the 20th century was that the apostles of Marxist materialism and the adherents of…
read more[SPME Editors Note: University of Pennsylvania Assistant Professor Gil-White is facing a difficult contract renewal situation. The matter was brought to SPME’s attention from a number of sources including SPME faculty colleagues wondering what role, if any we would play…
read more(Ray Hanania, a member of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, is a national syndicated columnist and former national president of the Palestinian American Congress. His columns are archived on the web at www.hanania.com. He can be reached at…
read moreThe writer is a professor of economics at Ben-Gurion University and an SPME Member Instead of addressing the question of how Israeli soldiers should deal with terrorism, the critics of Professor Asa Kasher, whom they disparage as “the court philosopher,”…
read moreIn November, 2003, Sébastien Selam, a popular 23-year old Jewish DJ, known to his fans as DJ LamC, was murdered by an Arab neighbor. His throat was slit twice; his face was atrociously mutilated. The grisly crime was barely reported…
read morePARIS, FRANCE – Two days after the murderous attack against the Number 14 bus in Jerusalem, and smack in the middle of the “off the wall” deliberations of the International Court at the Hague, France’s public channel France 2 broadcast…
read moreInternational Court of Justice proceedings at the Hague, political statements by the International Red Cross, one-sided UN resolutions, and biased reports from nongovernmental organizations are all manifestations of how human rights norms are manipulated to demonize Israel. The international human…
read moreThe Palestinian Authority’s (PA) chief negotiator, Saeb Erekat, is the latest PA official to demonstrate that PA leaders send one message to their people in Arabic and an entirely different message to the world media in English. This week’s news…
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