Analysis
Monday, April 22nd 2024
Stuart Halpern Tablet, Apr. 19, 2024 “Having suffered persecution for centuries, the Jewish people steadfastly adhered to their ancient faith—the faith which gave them courage and fortitude to withstand man’s inhumanity to man. Furthermore, the Jews were frequently in the vanguard of the fight to aid other oppressed minorities.” With Hamas still holding Israeli hostages and […]
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Meir Y. Soloveichik First Things, January 2024 “Anti-Semitism is not a hatred of difference; it is a hatred of Jews.” The collection of Yad Vashem, Israel’s museum of the Holocaust and memorial to its victims, presents us with a chronicle of human barbarity and evil. But in its celebration of those “Righteous Gentiles” who protected […]
Rabbi Dr. Norman Solomon The Torah.com, Mar. 15, 2024 “I hope that, just as we welcome all four ‘sons’ to our table and read to each according to his needs, we can also welcome all four readers, and take from each according to our needs, and the needs of our generation.” You don’t have to be a […]
Mijal Bitton Sapir Journal, October 2023 – February 2024 “This is what Jewish peoplehood feels like. The pain is telling us that the organism is working, that we are still a “we.” This pain is the essence of being — or becoming — a Jew.” The words of the Torah can reflect our profound sorrow in this moment. Each […]
Friday, April 19th 2024 / Friday, April 19th 2024
Elder of Zyon, Dec. 4, 2019 “The Palestinian struggle today, therefore, must not waiver on the implementation of the Palestinian right of return, as this right is the legal key to undoing the Zionist conquest of Palestine in its entirety.” Joseph Massad is professor of Modern Arab Politics and Intellectual History in the Department of […]
Jordana Horn Times of Israel, Mar. 5, 2024 “In recent years, it has become increasingly common at Columbia to defer to a protected class’s views,” reads the report. “But when some Israeli and Jewish Columbia affiliates have complained about phrases or comments in recent months, the response has been different, defending the intentions and free […]
NY Times, Apr. 18, 2024 “Columbia’s tightened rules were being tested even as Dr. Shafik testified.” More than 100 students were arrested on Thursday after Columbia University called in the police to empty an encampment of pro-Palestinian demonstrators, fulfilling a vow to Congress by the school’s president that she was prepared to punish people […]
Douglas Belkin WSJ, Apr. 17, 2024 “The last six months on campus have served as an extreme pressure test. Our systems clearly have not been equipped to manage the unfolding situation.” Columbia University president Nemat “Minouche” Shafik told a congressional committee Wednesday that the school wasn’t prepared for the firestorm stemming from Hamas’s attack […]
Thursday, April 18th 2024
Joe Biden WSJ, Apr. 17, 2024 “… if Iran succeeds in significantly escalating its assault on Israel, the U.S. could be drawn in. Israel is our strongest partner in the Middle East; it’s unthinkable that we would stand by if its defenses were weakened and Iran was able to carry out the destruction it intended […]
Israel Kasnett, JNS, Apr. 17, 2024 U.S. President Joe Biden’s “Don’t” warning to Israel’s enemies didn’t work. Iran attacked Israel directly, and its Lebanese proxy Hezbollah continues to fire rockets at Israel on a daily basis. In fact, Biden’s “Don’t” strategy has never worked. It wasn’t taken seriously by the Taliban in 2021, or […]
Udi Etzion, Jerusalem Post, Apr. 17, 2024 Three days after the Iranian missile attack on Israel and the successful interception of the vast majority of them, the defense establishment and the defense industry are now engaged in investigating the incident and learning from the events. Although Israel has been successfully intercepting rockets launched from Gaza since the Iron […]
Daniel Henninger WSJ, Apr. 17, 2024 “If we have learned anything the past three years, it is that Mr. Biden is saturated in the don’t-provoke-a-response school of foreign policy.” Allow me to identify who saved the people of Israel last weekend from Iran’s missile barrage: Ronald Reagan. In 1983, President Reagan in a […]
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