Analysis
Monday, December 16th 2024 / Wednesday, December 18th 2024
Geoff Russ National Post, Dec. 15, 2024 “Some of our leaders, who espouse multiculturalism as the only pillar of Canadian society, have failed to distinguish between welcoming new people and allowing radicals to remake its culture and politics entirely.” Support for Canadian multiculturalism is not a free-flowing fountain of unlimited harmony and goodwill. It […]
Terry Glavin The Free Press, December 11, 2024 “Reasonable people can disagree about what to do in an intractable conflict, but the denying of what should be uncontroversial facts makes it impossible to have hope.” ‘The Denial Is What’s Painful’ For Sarah Rugheimer, a professor of astronomy at York University in Toronto, the first sign […]
David Matas National Post, December 15, 2024 “The Government of Canada should reverse its stance on the ICC arrest warrants issued against Netanyahu and Gallant.” The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defence minister Yoav Gallant for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity. Prime […]
Sunday, December 15th 2024 / Thursday, December 19th 2024
By Jerry S. Grafstein* “Are some universities across Canada now quietly instituting “de facto quotas” against Jewish students?” The roots of antisemitism in Canada are deep, tangled, and growing. Nowhere in Western democracies has the rise been so swift, obvious, and evident. The B’Nai Brith Canada annual report tracking anti-semitic incidents across Canada with […]
Friday, December 13th 2024
Tal Fortgang Mosaic Magazine, Dec. 2, 2024 “Hatred of Israel may be distinguishable from hatred of Jews in theory, but in reality they are inextricable.” As the fall semester comes to an end, there has been only modest relief for Jewish college students in America. A series of congressional hearings throughout 2023 and 2024 led […]
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Friday, December 13th 2024 / Tuesday, December 17th 2024
Niall Ferguson The Free Press, Dec. 12, 2024 “The vibe shift is, in essence, escalation versus de-escalation.” I am a 60-year-old Scotsman with a penchant for red suspenders, oolong tea, and the novels of Walter Scott—so no one will ever accuse me of being an arbiter of cool. But to understand politics and even geopolitics you […]
Vita Fellig JNS, Dec. 5, 2024 The German-Jewish writer Franz Kafka, who died 100 years ago at age 40, is on the short list of people whose name has become an eponymous adjective. The term “Kafkaesque” suggests bureaucratic folly, but Kafka, whose life and work is being celebrated in major exhibitions in Israel, Germany and […]
Adam Bellow Sapir, Nov. 18, 2024 In 1970 my father, Saul Bellow, published Mr. Sammler’s Planet. His seventh novel, it came on the heels of major works that had long since established him as the preeminent American writer of his generation. The book was immediately hailed as a triumph, reviewed and praised in every significant outlet. […]
Thursday, December 12th 2024 / Thursday, December 12th 2024
Yonah Jeremy Bob Jerusalem Post, Dec. 10, 2024 “Hadas Kline, Milchin’s aide, who accused Netanyahu of illegalities in Case 1000 and is considered the case’s most important witness.” Starting Tuesday morning, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will begin testifying in his own public corruption trial proceedings– which could take several weeks. The defense is set to present its […]
Thursday, December 12th 2024
Caroline B. Glick JNS, Dec. 6, 2024 “The public persecution of Feldstein and the NCO serves two ends. First, it seeks to criminalize Netanyahu and second, it aims to deter other intelligence officers from providing the prime minister with critical information about the war.” This week, Channel 11’s journalist Ayala Hasson broadcast a two-part exposé on […]
Jeremy Sharon Times of Israel, Dec. 12, 2024 “It’s not good to be a friend of Bibi; it doesn’t help,” Netanyahu said.” On his second day of testimony in his criminal trial, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insisted repeatedly that he never came to any give-and-take arrangement with business tycoon Shaul Elovitch and asserted that the […]
Elinor Shirkani Kofman and Erez Linn Israel Hayom, Dec. 10, 2024 “Netanyahu added that he could have gained favorable media coverage by simply “moving a few steps to the left” but chose instead to maintain positions he believed were “essential to ensure our existence.”” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took the stand Tuesday in his long-running corruption […]
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