Six healthy young men volunteered to participate in a clinical trial of a new drug in Great Britain last month. Minutes after being administered a minute dose of the drug, all six volunteers were in excruciating pain, their necks severely bloated, and their vital systems failing. Rushed to intensive care, they were ultimately saved, but […]

by Bennett Zimmerman, Roberta Seid and Michael L. Wise BESA Perspectives No. 15, May 7, 2006 www.biu.ac.il/SOC/besa/perspectives15.html Executive Summary: Population statistics and predictions of the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) are unreliable. A BESA study that subjects Palestinian demography to rigorous analysis shows that the 2004 Palestinian population of the West Bank and Gaza […]

If you want to know what the future is going to hold now that the Palestinian and Israeli elections are over, just take a peek at what’s been happing in the Gaza Strip lately. Although only a tiny splinter of land wedged between Israel and Egypt, the Gaza Strip is a densely populated piece of […]

by Wendy Leigh Even now, I can still remember the moment clearly. There is a loud banging on the front door of our family house in Burgundy, France. Two policemen stand on the doorstep. My mother’s face is pale and she is no longer smiling, but she doesn’t cry. She asks me, then aged 12, […]

New York – The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), who includes Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis among its former presidents, criticized Brandeis University for planning to give Israel-hater playwright Tony Kushner an honorary doctorate at its commencement on Sunday, May 21, 2006 in the Gosman Sports Center there. Kushner sits on the Board of Advisors […]

By Phyllis Chesler FrontPageMagazine.com | April 27, 2006 With Holocaust denial rampant among Islamists and Western intellectuals, the celebration of Holocaust Memorial Day becomes more than an affirmation of the truth of the tragedy. It is also an act of defiance and moral clarity. In the Islamic media, Israel and Jews are labeled and portrayed […]

Evening, Yom Ha’Atzmaut, Independence Day We did not want to celebrate. The Expulsion Authority had hung Israeli flags on the lampposts throughout our refugee camp. A bandstand was erected by Thai workers in the public area close to our caravilla. We hung out our orange Gush Katif flag. Moshe and I walked through the camp. […]

by Susan B. Tuchman and Morton A. Klein PHOTO If you’re a Jewish college student, you no longer have to tolerate anti-Semitism or Israel-bashing on your campus. You are protected under our federal civil rights laws. These were the landmark conclusions of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, an independent federal agency that analyzes information […]

New York – An Israeli telephone poll of a representative sample of 500 adult Israelis (including Arab Israelis) carried out by Dahaf for the Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronot has found that 76% of Israelis disagreed with the proposition “Is the appointment of Amir Peretz as minister of defense a correct move?” Only 21% favored Peretz’s […]

Caroline Glick, THE JERUSALEM POST May. 4, 2006 www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1145961281934&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull … ISRAEL HAS had next to no debate either on the strategic consequences of the Gaza withdrawal or on the likely security consequences of a withdrawal from Judea and Samaria. Such a debate would note that the Gaza withdrawal was a failure on every level. It […]