Why Jews now find themselves in the eye of the Western storm
Anti-Semitism is now a major issue in the West.
In Britain, there are continuing convulsions over rampant anti-Semitism in the Labour Party. In America, there was outrage over the presence of the virulent Jew-hater Louis...
My New Year appeal to Caroline Glick: Rethink the ‘Israeli solution’
Author Caroline Glick’s prescription for A One-State Plan for Peace in the Middle East will jeopardize the Zionist enterprise no less than the two-state paradigm, which she rightly repudiates with great force and eloquence.
As far as...
Newest Palestinian Authority Schoolbooks for Grades 11 and 12
Sept. 9, 2018
In the New Year, The Center for Near East Policy Research has again engaged the expertise of Dr. Arnon Groiss to examine and translate the newest Palestinian Authority Schoolbooks for Grades 11...
Palestinian “Sacredness” and the Law of Armed Conflict
Israel’s Palestinian foes regard “martyrdom” as the supremely highest expression of Islamic sacredness. Nonetheless, there are certain conspicuously prominent disjunctions between the relevant obligations of faith and expectations of international law. Unambiguously, only the...
Can a divided nation learn to forgive?
In ancient Greece, the Olympic Games was not merely an athletic competition, but a religious ritual that was supposed to mandate a truce in all armed conflicts so the Hellenic world could gather in...
Peace Education Opportunity
For the past few months, ever since the US moved its embassy to Jerusalem, the US government officials have been discussing what gesture the US could make to the Palestinian Arab people.
“Peace Education” would...
Soviet anti-Semitism in a British guise
The “it’s” I refer to is a phenomenon pretty much unknown to newer generations of Jews in terms of their direct experience, but it will be remembered clearly by folks who lived through the...
Crisis on campus: A new generation of galvanized young Jews learns how to fight...
IfNotNow has a plan. It’s determined, according to its website, to create nothing less than “a movement led by young Jews to reclaim the mantle of Jewish leadership from the out-of-touch establishment.” Or, more...
Palestine: a house divided against itself
BDS and other anti-Israel movements on western campuses and elsewhere are clearly at odds with what is happening here.
We shouldn’t be surprised. Americans and others operate by their own norms, with limited—if any—connection with...
UCLA’s tango with hate and anti-Semitism
Students for Justice in Palestine will host its annual national conference in November at the University of California, Los Angeles. Despite the notoriously anti-Semitic rhetoric used by this group, UCLA will be directly facilitating...