How times change–or rather don’t. Back in 1971, Egypt’s leading journalist Muhammad Husanayn Heikal wrote, “There are only two well-defined goals on the Arab scene: erasing the traces of the 1967 aggression by Israel’s withdrawal from all the areas occupied…
read moreAccording to Hizbullah’s Al-Manar TV network, Professor Noam Chomsky of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) visited Hizbullah headquarters this week, meeting with the organization’s secretary-general Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in a Beirut suburb as well as with other Hizbullah leaders.…
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 moreRegarding the MW controversy, and especially the ridiculous articles by Tony Judt (NY Times) and Richard Cohen (Washington Post) defending the paper. 1. hundreds of articles, books and speeches every year say that Israel’s supporters have tremendous and too much…
read morehttp://www.jcpa.org/phas/phas-gersten-f03.htm Since early 2002, a variety of attempts to boycott or discriminate against Israeli academic institutions and scholars have been undertaken in several Western countries. These include proposals such as the divestment of Israeli securities, ostracizing Israeli academics, refusal to…
read moreTuvia Blumenthal is retired from Ben Gurion University and is a member of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East The academy too has to defend itself against those who try to use academic freedom for their purpose, which is…
read moreWe are starting to see how the contending Palestinian groups are dealing with the Hamas takeover of the government. Hamas does not expect to change everything overnight. After all, its members often say that 20 years will be needed to…
read moreBarry Rubin is director of the Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center, Interdisciplinary Center university and a visiting professor at American University and member of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East spme.org . His co-authored book, Yasir Arafat:…
read moreThe disabling stroke suffered by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has shaken up Israeli politics but is unlikely to have much effect on the country’s society or political views. Sharon was considered a certain victor in the upcoming March elections,…
read moreThe world is about to rethink its views of the whole Arab-Israeli conflict, due to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s past policy shift, his evident departure from politics, and Palestinian developments. The critical variable here is not what has happened to…
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