Joseph Massad is an anti-Israeli Columbia University Professor.
Massad recently wrote a post at Al-Jazeera, which we wrote about at College Insurrection, Columbia Professor’s ‘Anti-Jewish Screed’ Draws Fire.
The post was The Last of the Semites:
The core allegations are that Zionists cooperated with the Nazis, that the result of the Holocaust was that...
The Assad regime has been warning that it will retaliate for Israel hitting missiles destined for Hezbollah, including by opening a terrorist front on the Golan Heights.
Israel has a counter-warning.
The New York Times reports:
In a clear warning to Syria to stop the transfer of advanced weapons to Islamic militants in the...
SodaStream is an Israeli company which makes a really cool and really popular product, essentially a make your own soda at home device. I plan on getting one. Its U.S. division is SodaStreamUSA.
This video shows the SodaStream story of building bridges between Jews...
And they don’t mean “land for peace” or anything close to it.
Instead, they welcome people like Egyptian Sheikh Youssef al-Qaradawi to Gaza:
Leading Muslim cleric Sheikh Youssef al-Qaradawi paid a high-profile visit to Gaza on Thursday, giving a boost to the Islamist group Hamas that runs the enclave, but also laying bare...
46 years ago today, Jerusalem was reunited. Using the Hebrew calendar.
The abuse of Jewish historical and religious sites ended:
“It felt like Messiah had come,” says Avigail Shlesinger, 81, of the day Jerusalem was liberated from the Jordan army 46 years ago.
Shlesinger, who is from a six-generation Jerusalem family, recalls what...
The academic boycott of Israel organized by the BDS movement claimed a big success when the Guardian ran an article yesterday, Stephen Hawking joins academic boycott of Israel.
That report set off a furious response, since the academic boycott of Israel is anathema to almost all academics.
In the U.S., only the disreputable...
You remember Pallywood:
Looks like it has happened again, this time with regard to the Boston Bombings, via Israelly Cool,
The enormous mushroom cloud, the earth-shaking earthquake-like reverberations, the secondary explosions.
We’re heard a lot of noise from Syria, but relatively little about casualties.
The NY Times reports over 100 dead soldiers:
The attack, which sent brightly lighted columns of smoke and ash high into the night sky above the Syrian capital, struck several...
Syria Explodes
Professor Jacobson has previously reported on two Israeli strikes: one against Hezbollah and one against Syria.
What’s going on?
Classic thing about the strike...
For the details at the start of the bombing, take a look at last night’s post, Reports – large explosions in Damascus (Update – Syria blames Israel), which has embedded videos and Twitter accounts. The Twitter feed now is at the bottom of this post.
This morning various news reports confirm that...
We have written several times about the academic boycott of Israeli academic institutions by the Association of Asian American Studies, and how it is part of the greater Boycott Divest Sanction movement meant to delegitimize Israel:
1) The proof?
Yesterday I noted that the New York Times seemed eager to
relegate an article about the administration’s reluctance to
believe that Assad had employed chemical weapons to the ash heap of
history. In a new editorial,
Ill-considered advice on Syria, the New York Times view has
changed a...
The anti-Israel Boycott Divest Sanction (BDS) movement achieved a victory earlier this month when the Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS) endorsed an academic boycott of Israeli universities, the first ever such resolution passed by a professional academic association outside the Middle East.
The boycott was proudly supported by the past President of AAAS, Rajini...
French court: Jerusalem light rail project legal
A French court ruled that Israel did not violate international law by building a light rail line in eastern Jerusalem.
The ruling on March 22 by...
1) The red line?
Back in December, NBC News reported that Syria had loaded chemical weapons onto planes and was prepared to use them against civilians.
Syria prepared to use chemical weapons against own people; military awaits final orders, US officials tell @nbcnews nbcnews.to/RCH3Cz
— Breaking News (@BreakingNews) December 5, 2012
Late last week the...
