Analysis
Tuesday, August 23rd 2022 / Tuesday, August 23rd 2022
Shibley Telhami Brookings, Aug. 2, 2022 “In Democratic politics, the relevant arena on this issue is the primaries, given that Republicans overwhelmingly favor Israel, and even Democratic voters strongly supportive of Israel are unlikely to vote for a Republican candidate in the general election if the Democratic contender’s position on Israel/Palestine does not match their […]
Monday, August 22nd 2022 / Monday, August 22nd 2022
Rex Murphy National Post, Aug. 20, 2022 “Canadian Heritage knows the danger when it feels it, and it was Canadian Heritage, under Diversity and Inclusion Minister Ahmed Hussen, who doled out $133,800 to a group called Community Media Advocacy Centre (CMAC), to, as the Canadian Press put it, “build an anti-racism strategy” for Canadian broadcasting.” […]
Analysis Outside Source
Abigail Hirsch AskAbigail Productions, Dec. 6, 2014 My name is Abigail Hirsch. I have been an active volunteer at CUTV (Concordia University Television) prior to its current management team for two years, and I would like to share a number of my concerns with you. CUTV as you know is funded by your student association […]
Mathew Kassel Jewish Insider, July 21, 2021 “The Green Party leader has also found herself increasingly alienated by members of her own party following the recent flareup in the Middle East.” A national summit on antisemitism is scheduled to be hosted by the Canadian government today in a virtual gathering whose attendees will include a diverse array […]
Jamil Jivani Toronto Sun, Aug. 18, 2022 “… it’s clear that our federal government is relying on flawed so-called experts to determine what constitutes hate speech and racism. In fact, some of the federal government’s so-called experts may very well be hateful and racist themselves.” Canada’s federal government is investigating an anti-racism consultant they’ve paid over a […]
Friday, August 19th 2022 / Friday, August 19th 2022
Armin Rosen Tablet, Aug. 2, 2022 The Hudson Valley Resort and Spa rests on a gentle slope facing the near-distant curtain of mountain where the wilderness finally begins. Only the softest pinch of loss intrudes into the landscape’s tranquil domes of spotlit green and emerald shadow. “We’re gonna dedicate rooms to the old hotels that […]
Amarachi Amadike National Post, July 7, 2022 Decades after his execution in Israel for crimes against humanity, newly unearthed audio recordings of Adolf Eichmann reveal how the architect of the Holocaust described his role in organizing the “Final Solution.” For the first time, the Nazi war criminal, who maintained at his trial that he was […]
Ruth Franklin Ghost Stories, July 4, 2022 I haven’t been able to hit 1000 words every day since then, since I’m balancing the writing with research, including trips to Columbia’s Rare Books and Manuscripts Library to read through Otto Frank’s correspondence with his editors at Doubleday and to the Center for Jewish History for letters […]
Simi Horwitz Forward, Aug. 9, 2022 Director-composer Stephen Edwards says he is drawn to “ordinary people doing extraordinary things.” So, when he came across the virtually unknown story of “Syndrome K” and the Italian doctors who concocted this wholly invented disease in order to save Italian Jews during World War II, he knew he had […]
Thursday, August 18th 2022 / Thursday, August 18th 2022
Joel Petlin Newsweek, Aug. 12, 2022 “There are wrong ways and right ways to talk about George Soros and other Jews in the news.” We should all be extremely sensitive to the dehumanizing language used by antisemites, and the discrimination and even violence that often comes from it. Antisemitism must always be denounced evenhandedly, whether […]
James Kirchick Tablet, Aug. 10, 2022 “The question before us today is whether, in the course of criticizing activities that the country’s biggest progressive donor has undertaken “transparently” (his word), it is possible to even utter his name without being accused of bigotry.” Two weeks ago, George Soros took to the op-ed pages of the […]
George Soros WSJ, July 31, 2022 “The most rigorous academic study, analyzing data across 35 jurisdictions, shows no connection between the election of reform-minded prosecutors and local crime rates.” Americans desperately need a more thoughtful discussion about our response to crime. People have had enough of the demagoguery and divisive partisan attacks that dominate the […]
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