Daily Archives: January 4, 2019
US Refuses to Expose Anti-Israel Incitement in Palestinian Textbooks
The think tank that I run, the Center for Near East Policy Research, has completed a four-year research activity, in which all 364 school books for grades 1-12 that were published by the Palestinian...
Angela Merkel’s legacy and the Jews
Angela Merkel’s tenure as Chancellor of Germany is drawing to a close.
While she has always shown great empathy for Germany’s Jews, her 2015 decision to open the country’s gates to migrants led to the...
GOP senators introduce new sanctions on Syria, boost security cooperation with Israel and Jordan
On the first day of the 116th Congress on Thursday, Republican senators introduced legislation to impose fresh sanctions on Syria as well as boosting security cooperation with Israel and Jordan amid the announced gradual withdrawal of...
New Congresswoman Tlaib displays map with Israel replaced by ‘Palestine’
Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) displayed a map on her first day in the House of Representatives with a note posted over Israel that reads “Palestine.”
Buzzfeed reporter Hannah Allam posted on Twitter, “Someone has already...
Study: A quarter of Jews murdered in Holocaust killed in 100 days in 1942,...
Almost a quarter of the Jews killed in the Holocaust were murdered during 100 days in 1942, making it the time frame with the highest killing pace in the 20th century, according to a new...
National fight over BDS outlined
n December BDS continued to be a prominent political and campus issue, fully integrated into larger questions of antisemitism, free speech, and the nature of the university.
At Temple University faculty member Marc Lamont Hill...
Book Review: ‘My Brilliant Friend’
This novel, the first of a quartet, has become an international bestseller and has been widely praised in literary circles. So I was overjoyed when I was able to pick up a copy someone...
‘America First’ is a deepening policy error
In the seventeenth century, English philosopher Thomas Hobbes warned against anarchy in world politics, conditions that he associated with a devastating “war of all against all” (bellum omnium contra omnes).Appearing in his book Leviathan,...
Palestinian author Mushir Al-Farra: MEMRI ‘monitors everything’
During a December 23, 2018 interview on Baladna TV (Gaza), Palestinian author Mushir Al-Farra said that the Palestinians should be more cautious while representing their cause on media outlets to avoid speaking in a...
Israeli entity demands action after Belgian soccer fans chant anti-Semitic slogans
Soccer fans in Belgium chanted anti-Semitic slogans, including ones about the burning of Jews, during a recent match in the city of Bruges, prompting an Israeli lawfare organization to take action.
Footage published by La Derniere...