In the two years since October 7, the anti-Israel campus group known as Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) has dwindled from a force to a farce. From occupying buildings, disrupting classes, and setting up encampments, it now resorts to hunger...
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For decades, Israeli—and Western policymakers as well—clung to the belief that improving Palestinian economic conditions would restrain terrorism. The logic was simple: prosperity would temper radicalism. This belief led Israel to accept Qatari cash infusions into Gaza, imagining that financial stability would pacify Hamas.
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"Water water, every where, Nor any drop to drink," from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner, is a suitable motto for the Islamic Republic of Iran. With the Persian Gulf in the Southwest, the Sea of Oman in the South, and the Caspian Sea...
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Before Zohran Mamdani began wearing a white shirt and tie in his campaign for NYC mayor, he routinely appeared at some of the most antisemitic and anti-American demonstrations held on New York streets. We have unearthed videos of several of those events...
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On May 11, 2021, Zohran Mamdani participated in a virulently antisemitic 2-hour anti-Israel demonstration in NYC. Besides Mamdani, the rally featured some of the most notorious anti-Israel activists in the United States. Mamdani himself called for the...
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Here is my one regret from the last two years of commentary on the 7th October War: we let ourselves get sucked into arguing the running death toll coming out of Hamas's Health Ministry in Gaza. In some ways, it was inevitable. Global outlets put those...
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In the last two years, the most ubiquitous chant heard at anti-Israel demonstrations in the United States is "Free, Free Palestine. From the River to the Sea". To those who were chanting this phrase, there was no doubt that they were calling for the...
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Make no mistake. Patriotic, reform minded, anti-Islamist Muslims like myself and others in our Muslim Reform Movement have been warning the West on every one of our platforms for decades that as Islamists radicalized Muslims across the planet they will...
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The former head of MI6, Sir Richard Dearlove, had explicitly named Iran agents in the UK as a threat against Britain's Jewish community. A warning issued well before the recent attack on the Manchester synagogue that left two people dead. "There is a...
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Over the last two years, writers have struggled with the best way to identify what Hamas did in Israel on October 7, 2023. In my own writing, I have used the words "attack," "assault," "massacre," "slaughter," and "pogrom." Others have opted for...
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Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) say they want to "disrupt" campus life. On April 20, 2024, the steering committee of the National SJP (NSJP) threatened to "reclaim our universities until administrators comply with our demands." The next day, it...
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This past week, Canada, the UK and Australia have formally recognised the State of Palestine. There is now a decent possibility that the declaration of Israeli sovereignty over the West Bank is likely to follow. Hamas is now further from agreeing to a...
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