I plan on violating the EU's directive as often as possible on my upcoming trip to Israel....
Via Times of Israel: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke out Tuesday against what he described as a rising trend of anti-Semitism around the world, calling for an international effort to combat the phenomenon. Addressing delegates in Jerusalem for the Foreign Ministry’s fourth annual anti-Semitism conference, Netanyahu launched...
So writes Syracuse University Professor Zak Braiterman, Hezbollah — Part of the Global Left?: Reading this article about Hezbollah fighting in Syria and up to its waist in blood, it made me wonder if a certain philosopher still believes that Hezbollah is a social movement that is “progressive,”...
An article today at The Tower discloses a rough, handdrawn map allegedly by Mahmoud Abbas, refecting a peace offer extended by Ehud Olmert when he was Prime Minister of Israel, EXCLUSIVE: The Deal the Palestinians Rejected, The History That Was Never Made: In a stunning development...
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 Arabs: Nonetheless,...
If you think Stephen Hawking's decision not to attend a conference in Israel was a principled stand for academic or other freedoms, you can drop that notion. Hawking, as many have pointed out in the past few days, has attended conferences in the past several years...
1) When is news not really news? The Newseum - a museum devoted to the news business - recently held an event to honor journalists killed in the line of duty. Included in that honor members of Hamas who were killed by Israel this past November. Newseum...
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...
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: A stain on academia — Association for Asian American Studies calls...
Similar to the resolution passed by the Association for Asian American Studies...
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 the Versailles Court of Appeals came in response to a lawsuit filed in 2007...
American academics pass their version of "Zionism is Racism"...
As I have told you, the efforts of some left-wing academics to demonize Israel never ends. While you go about your business and pay attention to world events, they work tirelessly to ostracize Israel while ignoring both Israel's security situation and the decades-long effort to destroy Israel. Groups...
The sick BDS movement, Leftist-Islamist coalition, and anti-Israel academic movement are frequent topics here. There is good news -- despite all the hoopla and vitriol, these miscreants have made no progress with American public opinion. Via Times of Israel: Americans’ sympathy for Israel is at a 22-year high, according...
We've delved the depths of the despicable Boycott Divest Sanction movement against Israel. We are dealing with real bottom-feeders who have worked their ways onto campuses almost everywhere, supported by vicious people like George Galloway. Given the sordid history of Leftist-Islamist anti-Israel campus agitation, particularly in Britain,...
BDS at Brooklyn College...
I've written about Harvard Law School Professor Alan Dershowitz before, Alan Dershowitz, Praised: Charles C. Johnson (no, not that that CJ) has a post at Big Government, In Praise of Alan Dershowitz. It’s worth the read, but hardly does justice to someone who for generations has...
So writes Caroline Glick: After participating last week in a debate in London about Israeli communities beyond the 1949 armistice lines organized by the self-consciously pretentious Intelligence Squared debating society, I can now say from personal experience that Amis is correct. The public atmosphere in England...
