by Efraim Karsh Yale, 336 pp., $32.50 Reviewed by Daniel Pipes National Review May 17, 2010 Nakba, the Arabic word for “catastrophe,” has entered the English language in reference to the Arab–Israeli conflict. As defined by the anti-Israel website The Electronic Intifada, Nakba means “the expulsion and dispossession of hundreds of thousands [of] Palestinians from […]
by Daniel Pipes April 29, 2010 updated May 2, 2010 No contemporary state faces such an array of threats as does Israel – indeed, probably no state in history ever has. Consider their range: Weapons of mass destruction: Iran, Syria Conventional military attack: Egypt Terrorism: Hizbullah, Fath, Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad Economic blockade and boycott: […]
by Daniel Pipes May 3, 2010 While the U.S. government has a faith in Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian Authority that borders on the mystical, some of us see them merely as the “good terrorists” (good because willing to talk to Israel) as opposed to the “bad terrorists” of Hamas (bad because unwilling to talk). […]
Palestinian protesters tried to attack the deputy ambassador of Israel to Britain. Protesters lunged at Talya Lador-Fresher following her lecture Wednesday at the University of Manchester. The envoy, who was not hurt, told Britain’s Jewish Chronicle that she feared she would be physically assaulted by the protesters. Lador-Fresher was removed from the area by a […]
by Eric Golub FrontPage Magazine April 30, 2010 A conference at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) on April 16, 2010, offered “Critical Perspectives on the Criminalization of Islamic Philanthropy in the War on Terror.” Co-sponsored by the UCLA International Institute, the Critical Race Studies Program, and the UCLA Journal of Islamic and Near […]
by Daniel Pipes National Post April 29, 2010 [DP note: The title is slightly changed] This month, Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak declared that Israel must withdraw from Palestinian territories. “The world isn’t willing to accept — and we won’t change that in 2010 — the expectation that Israel will rule another people for decades […]
Two University of California professors warn that Jewish students face greater dangers as Muslim extremist organizations grow in campus influence. In an article on AmericanThinker.com, Leila Beckwith and Tammi Rossman-Benjamin – Professor Emeritus at the UCLA and Lecturer at the University of California Santa Cruz, respectively – write of the growth of Al-Awda, the presence […]
by Daniel Pipes National Review Online April 27, 2010 “Nothing is more Western than hatred of the West.” So writes the French novelist and essayist Pascal Bruckner in his book La tyrannie de la pénitence (2006), capably translated into English by Steven Rendall and recently published by Princeton University Press as The Tyranny of Guilt: […]
by Brendan Goldman American Thinker April 15, 2010 A capacity crowd of 860 students, professionals, hijab-clad women, and others filled Cooper Union’s Great Hall on Thursday, April 8, to hear Tariq Ramadan deliver his first public address in the U.S. since the Bush administration revoked his visa in 2004. The controversial Swiss Muslim, who teaches […]
The former head of the United Nations’ International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Mohamed ElBaradei, expressed support on Tuesday for Palestinian Authority violence against Israel. In a published report, The 68-year-old ElBaradei said the “resistance” was the only path open to PA Arabs because “the Israeli occupation only understands the language of violence.” ElBaradei, who recently […]
