Analysis
On September 23rd., Mahmoud Abbas, after a vitriolic speech, officially submitted his application to the U.N. to unilaterally recognize a Palestinian state. Earlier that week, President Obama reiterated the U.S. position that a unilateral move is counterproductive to establishing a lasting peace. He therefore insisted that the U.S. would exercise its right to a veto […]
A few years ago, I wrote several posts in which I offered critiques of feminism. I return to this topic in today’s post by turning my attention to Naomi Wolf, perhaps one of the best-known contemporary feminists. In 1991, Ms. Wolf’s The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women was published and […]
A recent spate of Holocaust-themed films, like the terrific new thriller The Debt, may encourage an anti-Zionist interpretation. After the demise of Apartheid South Africa in the early 1990s, the world sought a new villain to fill the bête noirerole. The self-styled morality police, led by mainstream media, academics, activists, NGOs and others […]
The current paradigm governing Israel’s strategic relations is flawed. Perhaps it is due to millennia of suffering that Jews, and by extension the Jewish state, are compelled to adopt a position of weakness vis-à-vis the external world; however, the fact remains: Israel is strong. The Palestinians, on the other hand, are weak. Nonetheless, they […]
The following address was delivered by Professor Frederick Krantz, Director of CIJR, at the Montreal Romanian Holocaust Commemoration, Congregation Shaare Zedek, November 13, 2011. A few days ago, a friend gave me an article on Claude Lanzmann’s powerful Holocaust documentary film, Shoah, by the late Emil Fackenheim, the great Jewish philosopher and survivor who […]
The Arab world is in turmoil, as the high promise of the “Arab spring” is everywhere descending—from Tunisia to Egypt to Yemen to (soon) Syria—into the triumph of the Islamists and Muslim Brothers. And meanwhile Abbas and the PA, rejecting negotiations with Israel and recognition of it as a Jewish state, continue their unilateral drive […]
Against the backdrop of the Shafia honour-killing trial in Kingston, Montreal’s Concordia University graduate Sikander Ziad Hashmi, an imam with the Islamic Society of Kingston, tells us “there is no such thing as ‘honour killing’ in Islam.” Last week, Hashmi challenged readers of Canada’s National Post Full Commentonline to find one classical Islamic religious text […]
On Sunday, October 23, a devastating magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck southeast Turkey, killing hundreds and injuring thousands more. In a show of solidarity, Israeli officials called their Turkish counterparts to offer sympathy and relief aid. Turkey’s response prompted Commentary magazine editorialist, Jonathan S. Tobin, to pen the following: “How determined is Turkey to repudiate […]
Although the wave of mass protests spreading through the Arabic-speaking countries may have begun to recede, it has left a wide-ranging impact on the region. Three authoritarian regimes have collapsed, and the rest are experiencing varying degrees of duress. This emerging political and strategic landscape has major implications for Israeli national security. Regional turmoil has […]
The Persian Shiite Regime operates by its own sense of ethics and morality, and chooses which laws and international customs it cares to follow. An unmitigated hatred of the USA and Israel, a brazen support of terrorism against its perceived enemies, and an extraordinary determination to acquire nuclear weapons are hallmarks of the Regime. […]
BOOK REVIEW: Ada Rapoport-Albert, Women and the Messianic Heresy of Sabbatai Zevi, 1666-1816. Oxford, Portland, OR: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2011. xvi + 386 pp. ISBN: 978-1-904113-84-3 Any observer of trends in the field of Jewish studies will have noted that two areas in particular have seen much new research and publication […]
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