Analysis
Friday, April 26th 2024
Dion J. Pierre Algemeiner, Apr. 25, 2024 “A central focus must be the secret funding that enables these NGOs and the question as to whether foreign states and terrorist entities are involved in bringing incitement to Ivy League schools and beyond.” Anti-Zionist protests striking US colleges and universities across the country have been the result of “tightly […]
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Thursday, April 25th 2024 / Thursday, April 25th 2024
Ariel Admoni Jerusalem Post, Apr. 13, 2024 “Equally at ease with Islamist and secular parties, with liberals and conservatives, Qatar is using its status and various relations with opposing sides to influence the region.” At the end of October 2023, the Qatari ambassador to the United States presented his state as a “reliable mediator” due […]
David M. Weinberg Jerusalem Post, Apr. 13, 2024 “But had Qatar wanted to pressure Hamas into a hostage release deal, it might have, for example, threatened to expel Hamas leaders from Doha or cut off their funding. There is no indication that Sheikh Al Thani has even contemplated this.” According to unassailable and well-reported Israeli […]
Bassam Tawit Gatestone Institute, Apr. 24, 2024 “Qatar’s dalliance with Islamist groups has long been the primary means for Doha to project influence in the Arab world, particularly through state support for Al-Jazeera Arabic. For too long, Doha has danced between its Islamist allies and its Western and Arab partners.” Recently, the rulers of […]
David Horovitz Times of Israel, Apr. 8, 2024 “Looking more broadly at Qatar’s dealings with Gaza, the report specifies that Qatar has been fully aware and supportive of Hamas military activities and strategy for over a decade, and that its publicly declared assertion that its funding for Gaza was going to Palestinian welfare rather than […]
Monday, April 22nd 2024
Stuart Halpern Tablet, Apr. 19, 2024 “Having suffered persecution for centuries, the Jewish people steadfastly adhered to their ancient faith—the faith which gave them courage and fortitude to withstand man’s inhumanity to man. Furthermore, the Jews were frequently in the vanguard of the fight to aid other oppressed minorities.” With Hamas still holding Israeli hostages and […]
Meir Y. Soloveichik First Things, January 2024 “Anti-Semitism is not a hatred of difference; it is a hatred of Jews.” The collection of Yad Vashem, Israel’s museum of the Holocaust and memorial to its victims, presents us with a chronicle of human barbarity and evil. But in its celebration of those “Righteous Gentiles” who protected […]
Rabbi Dr. Norman Solomon The Torah.com, Mar. 15, 2024 “I hope that, just as we welcome all four ‘sons’ to our table and read to each according to his needs, we can also welcome all four readers, and take from each according to our needs, and the needs of our generation.” You don’t have to be a […]
Mijal Bitton Sapir Journal, October 2023 – February 2024 “This is what Jewish peoplehood feels like. The pain is telling us that the organism is working, that we are still a “we.” This pain is the essence of being — or becoming — a Jew.” The words of the Torah can reflect our profound sorrow in this moment. Each […]
Friday, April 19th 2024 / Friday, April 19th 2024
Elder of Zyon, Dec. 4, 2019 “The Palestinian struggle today, therefore, must not waiver on the implementation of the Palestinian right of return, as this right is the legal key to undoing the Zionist conquest of Palestine in its entirety.” Joseph Massad is professor of Modern Arab Politics and Intellectual History in the Department of […]
Jordana Horn Times of Israel, Mar. 5, 2024 “In recent years, it has become increasingly common at Columbia to defer to a protected class’s views,” reads the report. “But when some Israeli and Jewish Columbia affiliates have complained about phrases or comments in recent months, the response has been different, defending the intentions and free […]
NY Times, Apr. 18, 2024 “Columbia’s tightened rules were being tested even as Dr. Shafik testified.” More than 100 students were arrested on Thursday after Columbia University called in the police to empty an encampment of pro-Palestinian demonstrators, fulfilling a vow to Congress by the school’s president that she was prepared to punish people […]
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