Analysis
Wednesday, February 20th 2013 / Friday, February 22nd 2013
IN CANADA, TEACHING ZIONISM, ONE STUDENT AT A TIME Alexandra Markus Israel Campus Beat, February 11, 2013 Five years ago, Concordia University professor Frederick Krantz noticed a lack of preparedness among Jewish students when faced with the growing anti-Zionist fervor he witnessed on his campus. “Zionism was becoming a negative term and we […]
Thursday, January 24th 2013
Needed – War Against Jihadists Lawrence Solomon Originally published in The Financial Post, Jan 18, 2013 Two years ago, before President Obama and other Western leaders gave their blessing to the Arab Spring by calling for the ouster of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, the Middle East was ruled mostly by secular dictators who […]
Tuesday, January 22nd 2013 / Tuesday, January 22nd 2013
Reviewed by: Ira Robinson, Academic Fellow, CIJR Concordia University Judt, Tony, with Timothy Snyder. Thinking the Twentieth Century. New York, Penguin Press, 2012. xvii + 414 pages. ISBN: 978-1-59420-323-7 This is the last book written by Tony Judt, who gained fame as an intellectual historian of the twentieth century and much notoriety […]
Friday, January 18th 2013 / Friday, January 18th 2013
Parties Queuing Up to Join the Next Government Manfred Gerstenfeld January 17, 2013 A few weeks ago, a poll found that 81% of Israelis were convinced that Benjamin Netanyahu would continue as Prime Minister after the elections on January 22nd. This may well account for much of the subdued public interest in the […]
Israel's Shift To The Right Not Surprising Perry Greenbaum An article in The New Yorker, by David Remnick, looks at Israel's increasing shift to the right, chiefly a result of Israelis over-all disenchantment with any possibility of genuine peace with the Palestinians. The shift is a natural by-product of Israel making concessions without any given by the Palestinians […]
Thursday, November 29th 2012 / Thursday, November 29th 2012
AFTER GAZA, IRAN Frederick Krantz Israel’s brief, intense war with Hamas in Gaza, initiated by the terrorist movement’s renewed rocketing, is over. A shaky truce, negotiated through a U.S.-pressured and Moslem Brotherhood-affiliated Egyptian President Morsi, is, so far, holding. While the Gaza leadership has emerged from its hiding-holes to claim “victory”, […]
Friday, November 9th 2012 / Friday, November 9th 2012
Originally published, October 29, 2012 in The Jewish Tribune. Last week, Israel’s Ha’aretz newspaper ran a front page article claiming that “most Israeli Jews support an apartheid regime in the country, if the territories are annexed.” The publication of the piece, promoting the findings of a recent poll, created a firestorm, setting […]
Tuesday, November 6th 2012 / Tuesday, November 6th 2012
When examining the Presidential election campaign, it is tempting to focus on the polls, the debates, the television commercials, and the candidates’ speeches. But from the perspective of most Israelis the dominant issue is much more profound. It concerns not only the Iranian nuclear threat, but thousands of years of Jewish history. […]
Thursday, November 1st 2012 / Thursday, November 1st 2012
China, Israel and the Jewish People March 28, 2012 Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld is Chairman of the Steering Committee of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, where he founded and directs the Center's Post-Holocaust and Anti-Semitism program. Interview series: Dr. S. Wald of JPPPI, "They see the Jews as an old people with a […]
Thursday, October 18th 2012 / Thursday, November 1st 2012
Contents: Editorial Introduction l Articles l Perspectives l Links Editorial Introduction The West Bank is not “occupied territory” and outposts considered illegal should be immediately legitimized. These were two of the findings of the Levy Commission headed by former Israeli Supreme Court Justice Edmund Levy. English As expected, the Levy Report came under immediate […]
Tuesday, October 9th 2012 / Friday, October 26th 2012
Originally Published in the Jerusalem Post, October 10, 2012 21:31 http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?id=287333 …The Center for Israel and Jewish Affairs, formerly The Canadian Council for Israel and Jewish Advocacy, is the by-product of a major revamping in mid-2011 of Canada’s Israel advocacy community, which saw a diverse spectrum of pro-Israel organizations consolidated into one body. […]
Friday, October 5th 2012
Originally ublished in the Jewish Tribune, October 3, 2012 http://www.jewishtribune.ca/commentary/2012/10/03/the-uss-iran-delusion The United State of America is “not setting deadlines” on Iran and is still committed to negotiations, which are “by far the best approach” to prevent Tehran from becoming a nuclear power, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton declared recently. To ensure the […]
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