Analysis
Wednesday, November 8th 2023
Philip Carl Salzman Epoch Times, Oct. 18, 2023 “McGill didn’t stop with a righteous sentiment. It disenfranchised the group in question.” For the past decade, universities in North America and in the English-speaking world have declared partisan and ideological positions that negated the traditional academic principle of institutional neutrality. As a result of the […]
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Bari Weiss The Free Press, Nov. 7, 2023 “Overall, authors of the report write, “a massive influx of foreign, concealed donations to American institutions of higher learning, much of it from authoritarian regimes with notable support from Middle Eastern sources, reflects or supports heightened levels of intolerance towards Jews, open inquiry and free expression.” […]
Tuesday, November 7th 2023
Liel Leibovitz Newsweek, Nov. 5, 2023 “Only a mind gripped by the erotic pull of theory would look at the 2009 demonstrations in Iran—the so-called Green Revolution—and decide that America ought to side not with the huddled masses yearning to breathe free but with their jailers, the murderous mullahs who beat women to death for […]
Tuesday, November 7th 2023 / Tuesday, November 7th 2023
_________________________________________________________________ Jim Geraghty National Review, Nov. 6, 2023 “Whatever happened to the idea that the people responsible for the violence in the Middle East are the ones who actually committed the violence?” … This morning, we must turn our attention to the recent comments of former president Barack Obama, who was pretty quiet for […]
Abe Greenwald Commentary, Nov. 5, 2023 “It’s big of him to shoulder the blame along with the rest of us. And in repayment for his generosity, I offer a few words to help him out in his soul searching on this issue: President Obama, perhaps you shouldn’t have chosen as the crowning goal of […]
David P. Deavel AMAC, Nov. 5, 2023 “It was classic Obama. Still speaking in the NPR voice that made his New Left radicalism sound calming and moderate, he is always capable of sounding profound and intellectual while not actually revealing what he’s doing.” Barack Obama has been sucking up the headlines again for what […]
Monday, November 6th 2023 / Monday, November 6th 2023
Dario Sabaghi The New Arab, Nov. 6, 2023 “… there is no point for Hezbollah in anticipating and declaring war on Israel when the Palestinian groups are still very prepared for the Israeli invasion. The point is to wait for the result of the Israeli attack and how the Palestinians are going to behave.” […]
Michael R. Gordon and Vivian Salama WSJ, Nov. 2, 2023 “The conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East have clear links. Since we cut off Russia’s traditional means of supplying its military, it’s turned more and more to Iran for assistance. In return, Moscow has supplied Iran with increasingly advanced military technology, which poses a threat […]
Monday, November 6th 2023
Jacob Olidort JINSA, Nov. 3, 2023 “…the language about a broader war being “a possibility” most certainly suggests Hezbollah and the Iranian regime, together with Hamas leadership (especially those based in Lebanon will actively coordinate in the coming days to determine the manner of further escalation short of fully opening a northern front (with the latter […]
Hanin Ghaddar Washington Institute, Nov. 3, 2023 “Nasrallah essentially declared that he will not be involved in the battle to “free Palestine,” a goal that lies at the core of his resistance narrative.” As expected, Hezbollah secretary-general leader Hassan Nasrallah did not declare war against Israel today—rather, his first public speech on the Gaza conflict served […]
Friday, November 3rd 2023
________________________________________________________ Natan Sharansky Tablet, Oct. 31, 2023 “The struggle for campuses is a struggle for America and its values—for an America that is liberal, that supports free speech and human rights, and that protects all of its citizens, regardless of race or creed, from vicious, lawless assault.” Twenty years ago, upon returning to Israel from […]
Friday, November 3rd 2023 / Friday, November 3rd 2023
Andrew Marantz The New Yorker, Nov. 2, 2023 “J Street, a center-left lobbying group that describes itself as “pro-Israel, pro-peace,” was joining with groups to its right, like AIPAC to push representatives to co-sponsor the resolution.” Early this past month, Adam Ramer started a new job. He was just four years out of college, and this […]
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