By: Steven Plaut Thursday, March 16, 2006 In the campaign in the UK to organize an academic boycottof Israeli universities, led by the British Association of University Teachers (AUT), it turned out that University of Haifa faculty member Ilan Pappe was the driving force, seeking to create a boycott of his own university. That campaign […]

A 16-year-old resident of Beit El in Judea/Samaria wrote the following exhortation to his neighbors, in light of the Face-to-Face get-out-the-religious/right-wing-vote campaign currently underway. • We, the Youth – gave up our summer vacation and went around giving out orange ribbons. • We, the Youth – were in Kfar Maimon, where you asked us not […]

Israel’s high tech is minimally vulnerable to terror, the Israeli economy has grown less dependent on the political sector, leading banks, VC funds and companies are attracted by Israel’s unique high-tech manpower and overseas investors have realized that the threat of terror has been globalized. Overseas investment in Israel (directly in companies and via stock […]

There’s a certain consistent pattern regarding the worldwide Left’s assessment of culpability for Muslim terror. It is the fault of the murdered. The most recent example is the blaming of Denmark, or at least the Danish newspaper, for publishing cartoons of Muhammad. From Kofi Annan to the New York Times – and the other American […]

Nadia Matar, March 13, 2006 The elections are in two weeks, and I want to specially address those among us who declare that they don’t intend to vote. I, too, feel only contempt and revulsion for the election campaign. Look, you say – and rightly so – the last elections brought a presumably “rightist” government […]

U.S. FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE IS PERFORMANCE-BASED. Would the US government extend loans, grants and subsidies to students and farmers who repeatedly flunk school and spend government subsidies on gambling?! Should the US be more lenient on Abu Mazen than it has been on its own citizens?! 1. 57% OF AMERICANS OPPOSE FOREIGN AID TO PALESTINIANS, according […]

Just before Purim, it is traditional for Jews to read as the Haftarah portion in synagogues the section of the First Book of Samuel in which King Saul is stripped of his kingdom and office. The context is that Haman, the villain of Purim, is thought to be descended from Agag, the evil king of […]

Published originally by THE JEWISH PRESS in December 1998 In light of the January 25 2006 Palestinian parliamentary elections, this earlier column by Professor Beres — written more than seven years ago — warrants careful re-reading. Now that years of Israeli concessions to the Palestinian “moderates” have proven entirely useless, a militant Palestinian state will […]

During dinner one evening at the recent Herzlyia Conference I sat next to a well-fed local businessman, a man of middle-age with an expensive black suit and shiny black hair. We were there to hear Benjamin Netanyahu, so we got to talking politics. Are you going to vote for him? I asked. He shook his […]

By: Dr. Phyllis Chesler Wednesday, March 8, 2006 Are we winning the war against terror – or more precisely, against the death-cult ideology of extreme hatred that employs terror as one of its weapons? America, Britain, and Israel have all committed significant sums of money in order to fight jihad militarily. We must, however, simultaneously […]