Isranet Daily Briefing

Tuesday, December 19th 2023 / Tuesday, December 19th 2023

  Iran’s Proxies in Syria Move Toward Escalation with Israel:  Kasra Aarabi and Jason M. Brodsky, Foreign Policy, Nov. 10, 2023 What the War in Gaza Means for Syria:  Aron Lund, The New Humanitarian, Dec. 7, 2023 Syria’s Stakes in the Israel-Gaza War:  Giorgio Cafiero, The New Arab, Dec. 14, 2023 How Violence in Syria Is Connected to […]

Analysis

Tuesday, December 19th 2023

Giorgio Cafiero The New Arab, Dec. 14, 2023 “The war in Gaza is reviving the relevance of the resistance front in the Arab world. Not only the Syrian opposition, but the Arab world more generally has scoffed at the impotence of the resistance front in recent years. Today, Arabs are again rooting for resistance. The […]

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Tuesday, December 19th 2023

Kasra Aarabi and Jason M. Brodsky Foreign Policy, Nov. 10, 2023 “This call for a Shiite jihad, which was ignored in the West, would enable the regime in Iran to introduce an ideological element to the conflict, centered on extreme antisemitism and sectarianism, to draw on the regime’s ideological influence across the region.”   Since […]

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Tuesday, December 19th 2023

Aron Lund The New Humanitarian, Dec. 7, 2023 “… the most significant Gaza-related escalation in Syria involves neither Israel nor Hamas, but Iraq. Since 17 October, a new group that calls itself “the Islamic Resistance in Iraq” has fired at US bases in eastern Syria dozens of times. The group, which appears to be a front for several Iran-backed […]

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Tuesday, December 19th 2023

Omar Albam and Cathrin Schaer DW, Oct. 31, 2023 “The head of the UN’s Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria, Paulo Pinheiro, confirmed this last week, telling the UN General Assembly that the country was “witnessing the largest escalation of hostilities in Syria in four years.” Syrian activists also said Russia and Syria had again been using weapons […]

Isranet Daily Briefing

Monday, December 18th 2023

  BEEN THERE BEFORE Opinion: This Unpalatable Reality About Antisemitism at Harvard:  Lev Golinkin, CNN, Dec. 12, 2023 — Harvard University recently issued the latest in an ongoing string of attempts to underscore its commitment to combatting antisemitism, which has grown more evident in the wake of the Israel-Hamas war. The Rabbi’s Lesson for Claudine Gay:  Seth Mandel, Commentary Magazine, Dec. 14, 2023 — Much […]

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Monday, December 18th 2023

Peter Wood and David Randall National Association of Scholars, Dec. 11, 2023 “… since the Hamas attack on southern Israel on October 7, President Gay has exhibited a moral obtuseness that marries intolerance for all dissent from the diversity, equity, and inclusion regime, to insensitivity to Jews faced with anti-Jewish harassment.” The National Association of […]

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Monday, December 18th 2023

Dan Sullivan WSJ, Dec. 15, 2023 “Would you feel welcome in Harvard’s most famous library? Would you feel rattled, intimidated and harassed by the anti-Israel banner screaming “Stop the Genocide in Gaza”?”   I was in Boston last weekend for the Army-Navy game. The day after the game, five days after Harvard President Claudine Gay’s disastrous […]

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Monday, December 18th 2023

Isabel Vincent NY Post, Dec. 12, 2023 “And two days later, on Oct. 27, The Post was sent a 15-page letter by Thomas Clare, a high-powered Virginia-based attorney with the firm Clare-Locke who identified himself as defamation counsel for Harvard University and Gay. The letter contained comments from academics whose work Gay was alleged to […]

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Monday, December 18th 2023 / Monday, December 18th 2023

Eli Steele Newsweek, Dec. 11, 2023 “By checking the “black” box, I was being asked to mask the actual problems and inequities that undermine the efforts of lower-class blacks—all so university administrations could claim the pretense of racial redemption through higher enrollment numbers.” I have known people like Claudine Gay my entire life and they […]

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Monday, December 18th 2023

Michael Goodwin NY Post, Dec. 12, 2023 “Beyond Harvard, Gay’s reprieve likely will be turned into a misleading model by other schools facing calls for new leadership. They now have a template for conceding mistakes and denouncing antisemitism, then moving on as if they’ve solved the problem.”    So now it’s one president down, no more […]

Isranet Daily Briefing

Friday, December 15th 2023 / Friday, December 15th 2023

SHABBAT READING   Sibling Rivalry:  Mikketz, 5771, 5784, The Rabbi Sacks Legacy — The Torah is a deep book. We make a great mistake if we think it can be understood on one superficial level. On the surface, the story is simple. Envious of him, Joseph’s brothers initially planned to kill him. Eventually they sell into slavery. He is […]