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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
More than 80 percent of all convictions tied to international terrorist groups and homegrown terrorism since 9/11 involve defendants driven by a radical Islamist agenda, a review of Department of Justice statistics shows. Though Muslims represent only 1 percent of the American population, they constitute defendants in 186 of the 228 cases DOJ lists, or […]
The March 11 “Day of Rage” demonstrations called for by political opponents of the Saudi monarchy did not materialize as anticipated. Turnout for the protests was sparse in the face of warnings from Saudi officials that laws prohibiting public demonstrations would be strictly enforced. On the day of the protest, the government ordered a massive […]
What to do about Libya? First of all, we need to be clear about our national interests. Since we have lived with the Muammar Qadhafi regime for years—and particularly because Libya gave up its weapons of mass destruction program—there is no immediate vital national interest requiring the use of force. That could change. Qadhafi could […]
As Libyan dictator Muammar Qadhafi’s forces ramp up their attacks on rebel fighters, talks in the U.S. of a no-fly zone over the country are intensifying as well. Washington needs to look carefully at the crisis instead of impulsively implementing a no-fly zone just to do something. Rather than giving the appearance of action while […]
