Penn Statement on Planned BDS Conference A campus student group, Penn BDS, is planning a national conference in February that will encourage boycotts, divestment and sanctions against Israel. This is not an event sponsored by the University. The event…
read moreGeorgetownUniversity Department of Government THE AARON AND CECILE GOLDMAN VISITING ISRAELI PROFESSORSHIP DEPARTMENT OF GOVERNMENT GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY 2012-13 The Department of Government at Georgetown University offers annual appointment to a distinguished visiting Israeli professor. The position, which serves as an…
read moreYale just killed the country’s best institute for the study of anti-Semitism. If Yale doesn’t want it, Washington should grab the institute before it goes anywhere else. For the past five years, the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of…
read moreThe modern university is no longer made up simply of departments and regular professors teaching students. Ancillary centers, programs, and initiatives proliferate, undertaking research on every conceivable topic and, in exchange for use of the university’s name, bringing in prestige,…
read moreCAIRO – For years, Osama bin Laden’s charisma kept al-Qaida’s ranks filled with zealous recruits. But it was the strategic thinking and the organizational skills of his Egyptian right hand man that kept the terror network together after the United…
read moreWhat is the definition of an American ally? On an ideological level, an ally is a country that shares America’s values, reflects its founding spirit, and resonates with its people’s beliefs. Tactically, an ally stands with the United States through…
read moreIn the summer of 2008, Lewis N. Walker, president of Lawrence Technological University, flew to Bahrain to deliver an honorary doctorate to Sheik Khalifa bin Salman al-Khalifa. The country’s prime minister and crown prince was being honored for his support…
read moreWhen J Street, the “pro-Israel, pro-peace process” group that has become a lightning rod for volcanic differences in American Jewish life, distributed the schedule for its upcoming national conference, nervous members of Congress were quick to note one session: a…
read moreProminent Middle East studies professors argue that Israel should conduct negotiations with Hamas, a U.S. State Department-designated terrorist organization that controls the Gaza Strip. Thus, they demand that Israel — a sovereign state — negotiate with a terrorist organization responsible…
read more(Editor’s Note…This piece was circulated by Prof. Robert Lieber of Georgetown University as “quite an insightful and original account” from this Egyptian Coptic Christian graduate student) One week ago, Egypt was a stable authoritarian regime, prospects of change were minimal…
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