What would become CIJR began in my basement twenty-five years ago, with a hardy pro-Israel band responding to the media’s first intifada(1987-88) anti-Israel tilt towards the Palestinians. The organized Jewish community, seemingly paralyzed, was largely silent, and we filled the breach, rallying the community and beginning what would become, today, 25 years later, an internationally-recognized, independent and pro-Israel academic think-tank.
