A controversy has erupted at Queen’s University in Canada, where student rector Nick Day recently accused Israel of genocide – and claimed his views represented those of Queens students. Now many students have accused Day of misrepresenting his role, and their views. In a letter he wrote in support of Israeli Apartheid Week in response […]
In the never-ending quest amongst Middle East studies academics to demonize Israel, a trendy new approach has appeared: employing the Holocaust. A recent lecture co-sponsored by UCLA’s Center for Near Eastern Studies, “Traumatic Memory Discourses in Israel: Holocaust History, Territory and Self-Critique,” fit the pattern. It was delivered by Joseph Rosen, a postdoctoral fellow in Montreal at […]
The Netanyahu government’s decision to build 500 new homes in Judea and Samaria (Yesha) as a response to Arab terror does not move the United States, which still insists that “settlements are illegitimate.” Despite the American criticism of Israel’s renewed Yesha building , restricted to major population centers, National Union party chairman MK Yaakov Katz […]
Japan Asks U.S. Nuclear Commission for Help With Fukushima’s Troubled Reactors. By DAVID MUIR and JESSICA HOPPER March 14, 2011— The Japanese government formally asked the United States’ Nuclear Regulatory Commission for help in stabilizing its troubled nuclear reactors in the wake of the country’s massive earthquake and tsunami. The NRC sent two boiling water […]
World magazine recently highlighted the impressive impact of the community outreach of one urban congregation in Manhattan. This inspiring story is just one example of the uniquely powerful effectiveness of indigenous faith-based service in neighborhoods burdened by enormous financial and societal problems. At a time of cutbacks in government services, the faith community remains as […]
by Daniel Pipes National Review Online March 10, 2011 The official hymn of the U.S. Marine Corps famously begins with “From the Halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli, we fight our country’s battles on the land as on the sea.” The reference to Tripoli alludes to the Battle of Derna of 1805, the […]
Egypt’s interim government has announced the release of dozens of political prisoners who have served 15 years or more of their sentence. Among those slated for release are two Islamic Jihad terrorists involved in the assassination of former President Anwar Sadat. The two, Aboud and Tarek el-Zomor, have served their sentences. They were kept in […]
(CNSNews.com) – When asked for her reaction to the director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) saying the health care law will result in the loss of 800,000 jobs over the next decade, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said “the biggest growth in jobs in our economy” this year has been in health care. “Four […]
Shattered Lens: Part 6 – Photo Bias in Depictions of the IDF It is very difficult to portray any military in a positive light for obvious reasons. Soldiers and weaponry are, by their nature, not conducive to creating positive imagery. The three international wire services, however, consistently employ photo bias to show IDF soldiers in […]
HR Comment: Lauding a Suicide Bomber Nothing prepares you for your first physical encounter with a terror attack. Walking up Jaffa Street, the main thoroughfare in the heart of downtown Jerusalem on January 27, 2002, I happened to bump into a friend. As we chatted, the shockwave of an enormous explosion made us instinctively cower. […]
