Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu again proved his public relations mastery with his CBS “60 Minutes” interview with Lesley Stahl on Sunday. He not only delivered catchy soundbites, but was cool in the face of attempted provocations...
Member Writings and Interviews
Students are shouting down pro-Israel speakers — and silencing free speech
Cary Nelson is a English professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an affiliated professor at the University of Haifa. David Greenberg is a history professor at Rutgers University. They are members of...
Testimony to the U of Michigan Student Government Ahead of Its Vote on BDS, Part II
On Nov. 15, 2016, as The Algemeiner reported, the University of Michigan (UM) student government considered a resolution endorsing the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel. After hearing testimony on both sides, the student...
Testimony to the U of Michigan Student Government Ahead of Its Vote on BDS, Part I
On Nov. 15, 2016, as The Algemeiner reported, the University of Michigan student government considered a resolution endorsing the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel. After hearing testimony from both sides, the student government resoundingly...
The Campus Left Parodies Itself
Last year, students at Brandeis produced what I was sure would be a long-reigning champion in the “you can’t make this stuff up” department. Brandeis’s Asian American Student Association (AASA), in order to draw attention...
Is Anti-Semitism a Firing Offense?
Joy Karega, formerly the assistant professor of rhetoric and composition at Oberlin College, has been fired. One rejoices because Karega is an anti-Semite. Consider one of her Facebook posts, first noted by Jacob Gerstman of...
Anti-Israel boycott prevents peace, assaults Jewish identity
On Oct. 25, Dr. Mohammed Dajani spoke to LIME, an Israeli-Palestinian student dialogue group that I mentor at Syracuse University. Dajani, a Palestinian peace activist, garnered international attention in 2014 when he was vilified for...
As Modern Orthodoxy Declines, a Jewish Trump-voting Religious Right Is Ascendant In America and Israel, the post-Holocaust period – where Orthodoxy had the self-confidence to embrace liberal values and a more open, cosmopolitan way of living as an Orthodox Jew – is ending.
Didn’t Slam Anti-Semitism On the Left? Don’t Expect Credibility When You Slam It On the Right.
For the past few decades, we have witnessed the rise of anti-Semitism from the left. From Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party in the United Kingdom to college campuses across America, the phenomenon is real, and it...
The Balfour Declaration Revisited
9 years ago to the day, Lord Arthur James Balfour, the then Foreign Secretary of the mighty British Empire a letter to Lord Rotschield, a prominent Jewish leader in England, containing only 130 words ,...