Human rights are misused by anti-Semitic anti-Israel campaigns that mask their efforts to dismember the only Jewish state through sophisticated and insidious use of the language of human rights, former Canadian justice minister Irwin Cotler, an internationally renowned expert on…
read moreDear All, I have written two posts on the Alvin Rosenfeld/AJC controversy. I think it’s an issue of crucial importance and welcome both your comments and your sending the links on to friends. I have a long one on the…
read moreStory Highlights • Nobel Peace Prize winner and Holocaust scholar not injured• Man sought interview, then dragged Wiesel off elevator, police say• A man claimed responsibility in a posting on anti-Semitic Web site SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) — Nobel laureate…
read moreThere is a hot frontier in today’s global clash of civilization — the mass media, and especially the Internet. After decades of relative silence, scholars, journalists, and military experts alarmed by jihadist media tactics came together to discuss how…
read moreMr. Cravatts, Ph.D., a lecturer at Boston University, Babson College, and Emmanuel College, writes frequently on law, religion, social policy, business, and housing development. In the same week that the Iraq Study Group released its own report to determine how…
read moreFrom date rape to racism to gay rights, America’s universities have long provided a forum for openly debating our most divisive and controversial issues. so why can’t they talk rationally about Israel? LAST SPRING, ON AN UNUSUALLY WARM AND HUMID…
read moreOn October 31, 2006, President Amy Gutmann held her annual Halloween party. The following events occurred: **President Gutmann was allowing herself to have pictures taken with student guests at the party one by one. **President Gutmann let her picture be…
read moreIn the title of an article that appeared in the French weekly Valeurs Actuelles in December 2005, the journalist Michel Gurfinkiel asked “Is Freedom of Speech under Threat in France?” Gurfinkiel’s question was prompted by threats of legal action against…
read moreFIFTY years ago tomorrow – on Oct. 29, 1956 – Israeli paratroops were dropped deep behind Egyptian lines in the Sinai peninsula, opening the way for the ground troops that followed. In a lightning campaign lasting less than five days,…
read moreIn response to the Breaking the Silence program scheduled at University of California- Santa Cruz, Professor Tammi Benjamin, wife of SPME Chapter Chair at UCSC Professor Ilan Benjamin, shares the following he wrote the following letter to the UCSC administration.…
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