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      STILL FIGHTING IN CAIRO Mohamed El Dashan Foreign Policy, March 7, 2011   While the world turns its attention to the riveting drama in Libya…the revolution next door in Egypt is entering a new phase—one that is just as exhilarating and consequential as the protests that drove President Hosni Mubarak from power […]

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      ISRAELI APARTHEID WEEK: POLITICAL THEATER AT ITS WORST Phyllis Chesler FrontPage Blog, March 8, 2011   The mob roars its hoarse, ear-splitting chants. “Death to the Jews,” “Death to Zionism,” “From the River to the Sea, Palestine Will be Free.” Keffiyas abound: On heads, over faces, around shoulders. The Arab “street” is […]

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      WE ALL MUST CONDEMN ISRAELI APARTHEID WEEK Editorial Prince Arthur Herald, March 3, 2011   This March, cities and university campuses around the world will take part in the 7th annual Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW)—a 13 day global event (in contrast to its name) aimed at attacking the state of Israel and […]

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The Canadian Institute for Jewish Research sincerely thanks all those, presenters and audience members, who participated in yesterday’s (Sunday, November 6, 2011) remarkable and highly successful International Conference, “Combatting the Delegitimation of Israel.”   The event brought together nine respected academics from a variety of fields to analyze, and devise strategies to overcome, the global […]

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On Tuesday, November 8, 2011 at 5:00pm a candle lighting ceremony will take place at Israeli President Shimon Peres’ residence in Jerusalem, ushering in the 16th Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Day. An official memorial service for Lea and Yitzhak Rabin, z”l, will be held Wednesday, November 9, 2011 at 3:00pm at Mt. Herzl in Jerusalem.   […]

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      HOW THE ARABS TURNED SHAME INTO LIBERTY Fouad Ajami NY Times, February 26, 2011   Perhaps this Arab Revolution of 2011 had a scent for the geography of grief and cruelty. It erupted in Tunisia, made its way eastward to Egypt, Yemen and Bahrain, then doubled back to Libya. In Tunisia and […]

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      ‘ISRAEL HAS SHOWN GENUINE DESIRE TO RENEW NEGOTIATIONS’ Herb Keinon Jerusalem Post, February 22, 2011   [Israeli] Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman went on the offensive at the annual EU-Israel Association Council meeting in Brussels… During the meeting, held annually between the Israeli foreign minister and his EU counterparts, Lieberman said that since […]

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      UN OFFERS A TYRANT’S LAST REFUGE Rex Murphy National Post, February 26, 2011   It would take the dark menacing imagination of Flann O’Brien, the fabulator of the absurd terrible world of his greatest novel, The Third Policeman, to be capable of equal encounter with some of the collateral absurdities that touch […]

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Yesterday, CIJR published UN Watch Executive Director Hillel Neuer’s National Post article, “Letting An Anti-Semitic Truther Speak Is A Disgrace To McGill,” describing Montreal-based McGill University’s decision to offer a platform to Richard Falk, thereby legitimating his explicit anti-Semitism. Of the many emotions stirred by this gross violation of ethical conduct, justified under the banner […]

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    BOOK REVIEW: THE DEATH MARCHES: THE FINAL PHASE OF NAZIGENOCIDE Timothy Snyder Wall Street Journal, January 8, 2011   In spring 1945, as battle-hardened American and British soldiers entered Germany, they came upon shocking evidence of mass murder. The sight of the living skeletons and mounds of bodies at Buchenwald and Bergen-Belsen fills […]

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      DICTATOR LOSES GRIP IN DESERT Charles Levinson, Margaret Coker, & Tahani Karrar-Lewsley Wall Street Journal, February 23, 2011   On the ground in the eastern chunk of this oil-rich desert nation, the signs of rebellion are plain to see in the armories of a military base near Baida: Weapons crates lie busted […]

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      AVOIDING EUPHORIA OVER OBAMA Isi Leibler Jerusalem Post, February 21, 2011   A strange euphoria seems to have blinded some Israelis and American Jews concerning the context of President Barack Obama’s veto of a UN resolution. In the past, blatantly one-sided anti- Israeli resolutions were vetoed as a matter of course. On […]