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Several commentators have now weighed in on Ian Lustick’s op-ed, “The Two State Illusion,” which the New York Times gave the front page of its Sunday Review section. In the op-ed Lustick, a professor of political science at the University…
read moreDr. Hassan Rouhani’s surprising sweeping victory in Iran’s June 14 presidential election marks an important, refreshing change in Iranian politics. His public statements during the campaign and since his election reflect different positions from those sounded regularly during Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s…
read moreSamuel Sandler, an aeronautical engineer and head of the Jewish community in Versailles, France, announced a few weeks ago that he’d had the local synagogue registered as a national landmark. “My feeling is that our congregation will be gone…
read morePerhaps no cosmology lacks for its devils, evil spirits–personifications of a wrongness so unacceptable that it can be granted no legitimate space if the community is to survive. Indeed, if famed French literary critic, René Girard, is correct, then what…
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Once again the fallacies of the Israeli NGO Breaking the Silence (BtS) are making headlines, this time directly from the IDF. Barak Raz, spokesman for the IDF’s Judea and Samaria Division, correctly blasted the group and its actions, stating that…
read moreIn a new report presented to members of the European Parliament, NGO Monitor details the damaging impact of “highly secretive EU funding for radical political advocacy NGOs.” According to NGO Monitor, EU funds are going to organizations involved in anti-Israel…
read moreAlice Walker, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, has lately garnered more attention for her unhinged political views than for her writing. She has compared Fidel Castro to the Dalai Lama. She refused to allow her book “The Color Purple” to be…
read moreIn a poll taken by the Huffington Post UK, a staggering 79 percent of readers believed that the world’s most famous living physicist, Stephen Hawking, was right to boycott Israel. His decision has set off a wave of arguments both…
read moreIn her controversial book, From Time Immemorial, which examined the false narrative concerning the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, Joan Peters referred to something she identified as “turnspeak,” “twisted rhetoric artfully aimed at the hearts and minds of the West, originated by the…
read moreDear , The anti-Semitic BDS movement suffered a major defeat this week when the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) authorized pension fund giant TIAA-CREF to exclude a resolution calling for divestments from Israeli companies from the ballot at the fund’s upcoming…
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