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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/08/AR2010010803555.html In the wake of the failed Christmas Day airplane bombing and the killing a few days later of seven CIA operatives in Afghanistan, Washington is, as it was after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, obsessed with “dots” — and…
read morehttp://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1138925.html The signing of a peace treaty between Armenia and Turkey in October was a little-noticed milestone. Since the Ottomans deported and murdered Armenians in World War I in what Armenians and much of the world call the Armenian Genocide,…
read morehttp://www.jpost.com /servlet/Satellite?cid=1258027305177&pagename=JPArticle%2FShowFull Tomorrow, my colleague Professor Colin Shindler will deliver his inaugural lecture as the new professor of Israel studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London. This comes against the backdrop of…
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http://clemensheni.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/journal-for-the-study-of-antisemitism/ Today the first number of the „Journal for the Study of Antisemitism“ was released! „The Journal for the Study of Antisemitism (JSA) is a select group of independent scholars who are interested in examining antisemitism in all its forms.…
read morehttp://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1123573.html In a defeated tone and in sharp contrast to the fanfare that heralded its beginnings, the era of the new historians, or what is known as the post-Zionist era, has come to an end. The historical debate between Zionists…
read moreGeorgetownUniversity Department of Government THE AARON AND CECILE GOLDMAN VISITING ISRAELI PROFESSORSHIP DEPARTMENT OF GOVERNMENT GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY 2010-11 The Department of Government at Georgetown University offers annual appointment to a distinguished visiting Israeli professor. The position, which serves as an…
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http://www.meforum.org/2067/are-honor-killings-simply-domestic-violence On February 12, 2009, Muzzammil Hassan informed police that he had beheaded his wife. Hassan had emigrated to the United States 30 years ago and, after a successful banking career, had founded Bridges TV, a Muslim-interest network which aims,…
read morehttp://www.investigativeproject.org/1411/state-department-website-panders-to-radical The United States government’s stepped-up courting of Islamist groups is on display at the State Department web portal www.america.gov. The site bills itself as a place to “meet the people” and “explore the values and ideas that define the…
read moreUS-Israel Relations in the Era of Obama and Netanyahu International ConferenceSeptember 14, 2009at the Yeshiva University Schottenstein Cultural Center239 East 34th Street, New York City Co-sponsored by theBegin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies at Bar-Ilan University and the Center for Israel…
read moreAsaf Romirowsky: Norton Mezvinsky’s Lamentable Legacy – and His FutureAmerican ThinkerAugust 15, 2009 A newly formed “educational think tank,” the International Council for Middle East Studies (ICMES), is poised to influence U.S. policy toward the Middle East in ways that…
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