SPME Research

The face of evil

This week, as the Jewish people and the nation of Israel commemorate the Holocaust, consider the reaction many had to the image of a sad and obviously humbled Saddam Hussein stroking his graying beard, much in the same manner as…

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Anti-Semitism Denial

On September 20, 2002 Lawrence H. Summers, the president of  Harvard University, delivered to the Harvard community a speech  deploring the upsurge of antisemitism in many parts of the globe: he specified synagogue bombings, physical assaults on Jews, desecration of Jewish holy places, and…

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Faculty Union Embraces Jew-Haters

In a week that saw homes in the suburb north of Toronto’s York University covered in swastikas, and synagogues and Jewish cemeteries vandalized in the neighbourhood on the south, the campus itself was no island for idyllic reflection. With clowns…

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World Bank Indirect Funding of Suicide Terror

Introduction Meetings were held this week between representatives of the World Bank and the Palestinian Ministry of Education regarding significant World Bank investment in PA universities, including “developing the infrastructure for the Palestinian institutions of higher education…” [Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, March…

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Anti-Semitism: Integral to European Culture

http://www.jcpa.org/phas/phas-19.htm • The resurgence of European anti-Semitism after the Holocaust suggests that it is integral to European culture. . • The European Union’s attitude toward anti-Semitism is double-handed. With one hand, by its discriminatory anti-Israeli declarations, the EU plays the…

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Which Anti-Terrorism Model Do You Like?

Dr. Cohen is Research Fellow in Russian and Eurasian Studies at the Davis International Studies Institute at the Heritage Foundation, working closely with Congressmen, Congressional staff members, three U.S. Administration members, as well as cabinet-level Russian, Eurasian and Eastern and…

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Mel’s Passion is a battle not worth fighting

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…

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