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Watching the Pro-Israeli Academic Watchers

November 15, 2010 | Prof. Leslie Wagner

Although anti-Israeli activity on campus was evident in the 1980s and 1990s, the resolutions at the notorious World Conference against Racism in Durban in August 2001 led to an upsurge in such efforts and also to the founding of three academic watch organizations in 2002. The largest of these organizations is the U.S.-based Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, which is run by the academic community itself. Campus Watch, also U.S.-based, is part of the well-established Middle East Forum and foc

Anti-Zionist Expression on the UK Campus: Free Speech or Hate Speech?

November 14, 2010 | Lesley Klaff

The last few years have witnessed an explosion of anti-Zionist rhetoric on university campuses across the United Kingdom. Encouraged by the University and College Union's annual calls for discriminatory measures against Israeli institutions and academics, the rhetoric has become even more strident since Operation Cast Lead. A recent boycott-divestment-sanctions campus tour explicitly invoked anti-Semitic tropes. The consequently hostile environment for Jewish students has jeopardized their educ

The Expulsion of the Jews from Muslim Countries, 1920-1970: A History of Ongoing Cruelty and Discrimination

November 4, 2010 | Prof. Shmuel Trigano

Between 1920 and 1970, 900,000 Jews were expelled from Arab and other Muslim countries. The 1940s were a turning point in this tragedy; of those expelled, 600,000 settled in the new state of Israel, and 300,000 in France and the United States. Today, they and their descendents form the majority of the French Jewish community and a large part of Israel's population.

Matthias Küntzel on The Rise of Nuclear Iran

November 3, 2010 | Dr. Matthias Küntzel

Rivkah Fishman-Duker on The World Turned Upside Down: The Global Battle over God, Truth, and Power, by Melanie Phillips

October 29, 2010 | Rivkah Fishman-Duker

How the Changing Nature of Threats to Israel Affects Vital Security Arrangements

October 26, 2010 | Maj.-Gen. (res.) Giora Eiland

Ahmadinejad in Lebanon

October 24, 2010 | Brig.-Gen. (ret.) Dr. Shimon Shapira

Averting Palestinian Unilateralism: The International Criminal Court and the Recognition of the Palestinian Authority as a Palestinian State

October 20, 2010 | Amb. Dore Gold, Diane Morrison

Israel’s Blockade Stands the Test of International Law

October 6, 2010 | Irit Kohn

The Gaza Flotilla: Facts and Official Reactions

September 15, 2010 | Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld

Anti-Semitic Cartoons on Progressive Blogs

September 2, 2010 | Adam Levick

Halting Iran’s Nuclear Weapons Program: Iranian Vulnerabilities and Western Policy Options

August 26, 2010 | Shmuel Bar

The Sources of Iranian Negotiating Behavior

August 26, 2010 | Harold Rhode

Jerusalem: Dangers of Division

August 26, 2010 | Nadav Shragai

Winning Counterinsurgency War: The Israeli Experience

August 23, 2010 | Maj.-Gen. (res.) Yaakov Amidror