I was fortunate to visit many places in Judea and Samaria, but one place I did not see was Hebron. “Too dangerous,” I was told, which only increased my admiration for the Jewish communities there. In a land replete with…
read morehttp://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=107460907234 3&apage=2 ‘Anyone concerned with what’s happening in our world ought to spend some time reading the Koran.” Andy Rooney, the famed CBS commentator, gave this advice shortly after 9/11, as did plenty of others. His suggestion makes intuitive sense,…
read moreSince his arrest on November 29, 2003, Bangladeshi journalist, Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury, has been hauled before the court more than half a dozen times. Each time, the result was the same. Choudhury was returned to prison for “interrogation,” with…
read more(Ed Morgan is a law professor at the University of Toronto and a member of SPME. He also founded Canadian Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, a separate organization from SPME) Having denounced as illegal the building of a…
read moreProfessor of Anthropology McGill University Member, Scholars for Peace in the Middle East Board of Directors The unrelenting rejection by Arabs of Israel doesn’t make a lot of sense. One would think that the Arabs, who currently struggle to get…
read more· The European Union’s massive investments (financial and political) in Middle East peace efforts in the past three decades have failed to produce positive outcomes. · Relations between Israel and Europe, as reflected in official channels and public opinion polls,…
read morehttp://www.cjnews.com/viewarticle.asp?id=2231&s=1 The actions of the United Nations in leading the campaign to demonize Israel have also led to the organization’s decline in prestige and influence. Recently, the process accelerated with the General Assembly decision to refer Israel’s construction of a…
read moreWednesday’s meeting of the security cabinet to consider regional arms control issues was the first such discussion in many years. It was prompted by a number of developments, including Libyan leader Muamar Gaddafi’s declaration that he would give up his…
read moreI heard so much about the Israeli organization Peace Now which was founded by 348 reserve officers of the Israeli military back in 1978. But it wasn’t until I attended a recent dinner hosted by it’s American support group that…
read moreProfessor of History, McGill University for Scholars for Peace in the Middle East Online Digest Amid this worldwide campaign to rob Israel of its good name, the long and proud association of Zionism with liberalism is also threatened. Too many…
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