Analysis
Monday, July 11th 2022 / Sunday, July 24th 2022
J.J. Kimche and Angelique Talmor City Journal, July 6, 2022 “That Harvard students are absorbing and endorsing BDS attitudes raises central questions about their educational experience.” Harvard University provides its students with unparalleled knowledge, skills, and experiences. Yet, as we Jewish students have witnessed, the routine vilification of the State of Israel—both inside and outside […]
Janice Arnold Canadian Jewish News, July 5, 2022 “… BDS activism and contentious campus debate” around the Middle East conflict; increased online “harassment, vitriolic social media posting and doxing” A McGill University administration investigation cites the “polarizing” debate around the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, in particular the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign, as causing both Jewish […]
Marc Edelman NY Post, May 30, 2022 “As the only law school funded with New York City taxpayer dollars, moreover, CUNY Law has an ethical duty to build an environment that makes Jewish and Israeli students, like all other students, feel welcome on campus.” The time has come for New York City to take a […]
Mike Wagenheim World Israel News, July 3, 2022 ‘It’s horrible to be a Jew at CUNY’ The New York City Council postponed an early June hearing on antisemitism on college campuses to accommodate the schedule of the chancellor of the City University of New York. At the rescheduled hearing on Thursday, Chancellor Felix Matos Rodríguez […]
Friday, July 8th 2022 / Sunday, July 24th 2022
David I. Kertzer The Atlantic, Aug. 27, 2020 “It would only be after Pius XII’s death that Church attitudes toward the Jews would change in a meaningful way, thanks to his successor John XXIII, who convened a Vatican Council devoted in part to rooting out the vestiges of medieval Church doctrine on the Jews.” In […]
Mario Galgano Vatican News, Feb. 2022 “… there are still people who say that they cannot imagine that, for 70 years we have believed what was wrong, and now it is supposed to be different. I encounter this skepticism often, both inside and outside the Church.” The chief archivist of the Bundestag (German parliament), Michael Feldkamp, has […]
Kevin J. Jones Catholic News Agency, June 23, 2022 “This document shows the power of words and is a warning for everyone to take threats of any demagogue seriously.” Relatives of Holocaust survivors and victims can now look through the files of more than 2,700 Jews who sought help through Vatican channels to escape Nazi […]
Jason Horowitz NY Times, May 27, 2022 “… the urge to protect Pius’s reputation, according to Mr. Kertzer, reflects a more general refusal by Italy — and apologists in the Vatican — to come to terms with their complicity in the Second World War, the Holocaust and the murder of Rome’s Jews.” David Kertzer […]
Thursday, July 7th 2022 / Thursday, July 7th 2022
CIJR – Toronto Co-Chairman Doris Epstein weighs in on UNRWA CANADA FUNDS TERRORISM Canada is feeding and fueling the organization responsible for propagating the world’s worst Jew-hatred, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency – UNRWA. Through its Hamas-organized schools, UNRWA educates thousands of Arab children in Jew-hatred. In their Hamas-organized summer camps, […]
Thursday, July 7th 2022 / Sunday, July 24th 2022
Marcus Walker and Danel Michaels WSJ, June 3, 2022 “Most of these things end in some fashion diplomatically. Unfortunately, the signs we’re seeing right now don’t suggest that Russia’s prepared to engage in a meaningful way in diplomacy.” After 100 days, Russia’s war on Ukraine is turning into a bloody slog with no end in […]
Taras Fedirko WSJ, May 26, 2022 “The war that began in 2014 permanently transformed Ukrainian politics.” “War made the state, and the state made war,” the sociologist Charles Tilly once wrote. Success on the battlefield, he observed, required states to construct the powerful, centralized institutions that would define them in the modern era—institutions with […]
Eric Schmitt, Julian E. Barnes, and Helene Cooper NY Times, June 25, 2022 “What is an untold story is the international partnership with the special operations forces of a multitude of different countries.” As Russian troops press ahead with a grinding campaign to seize eastern Ukraine, the nation’s ability to resist the onslaught depends […]
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