Long History of Jewish Self-Loathing
As a long-time Zionist, I was exposed years ago to Jews who seem to think Zionists are evil incarnate. I have resisted using the term, self-loathing, to describe these members of the tribe. Guess...
Category: From Academia
(Not) Suppressing Academic Freedom in the Palestinian Authority
Fighting the lies of academic BDS is serious business, but I found out you can sometimes have fun with it. Pro-BDSers repeatedly write about how the security problems in “Palestine” caused by Israeli “oppression”...
Situation in Palestine is Normal – No Need for BDS
Well, I wonder if it will comfort proponents of academic boycott of Israel to learn that the situation in Palestine is normal – according to someone with whom I communicated at An-Najah University in...
Hebrews, Israelites, Modern Jews – We Haven’t Changed
Some things and some people never change. I guess. Seems we Jews have always been the same as we are now. Read the following quote from a book published in 1831. I dare...
Oslo II: What Did Peres and Abbas Expect?
This is my summary and critique of an article from 1996 that included reviews of two books (one by Peres and the other by Abbas) (citation below). I bring this here now because we...
Want to Boycott Israel? Ignore This PA University.
Congratulations are in order for An-Najah National University (ANU) of Nablus. It heads the list of the top 12 “Palestinian” universities, ranked by an international site that ranks over 11,000 institutions in more than...
Youth Who Resist Joining Terror Organizations
Most researchers studying terrorist recruitment ask how they entice members who are willing to commit horrendous violent crimes in the name of Islam. Political scientist Kim Cragin and colleagues at Rand approach the topic...
Terrorism And Islam: A Plea For Honesty
Why should Obama and Clinton link terrorism and Islam when so many academicians pontificate about how suicide bombings have nothing to do with the religion? Why should anyone think terrorism is related to Islam...
