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...
Read More
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...
Read More
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...
Read More
Most of today's activist class in the West either have no knowledge of — or choose to forget — one of the bloodiest internal conflicts in the modern Arab world: Algeria's war against the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS), an offshoot of the Muslim...
Read More
On July 14 at 6:15AM, armed members of the Syrian Security Directorate surrounded the Saraya family home in the predominantly Druze province of Sweida. They began shooting wildly into the house where the large Saraya family members were sleeping...
Read More
While some university administrations give in to their SJP protesters, and others fight back, the University of Rochester (UofR) in upstate New York simply denies that SJP exists on its campus. I learned about this baffling approach to the SJP problem...
Read More
Classes began at most American colleges and universities last week. Will a sense of normalcy return, or will students be forced to endure a third year of double-masked keffiyeh-clad hipsters, shouting "Free Free Palestine" and "From the River to the...
Read More
If we want a resolution to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians then the first step must be to take the so-called "right of return" off the table. We must begin having citizenship granted to the so-called "Palestinian refugees" who have been...
Read More
When Elias Rodriguez murdered Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, a young Jewish couple, in front of the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington D.C., he shouted the now-familiar chant "Free Free Palestine," pulled out a keffiyeh, and said, "I did it for Gaza."
...
In the span of a few years, American academics have escalated their support for the Palestinian "resistance" from rhetorical to material. For decades, academics have fostered friendly territory for radical groups and fertile ground for anti-Israel propagandists
...
The newly formed Islamist regime in Syria, established as former Al-Qaeda commander Ahmed Al Sharaa—also known as Abu Mohamed Al Golani—was named Syria's transitional president on January 31, 2025, following the ousting of former Syrian President Bashar...
Read More
How history will treat the post-October 7 anti-Israel protests on college campuses across America will depend in part on how much longer they last. As we approach the 2-year mark, there seems little room for indifference. Normal people are appalled by...
Read More