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American Anthropological Association Boycott of Israel will be to its Detriment – Opinion

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Asaf Romirowsky Jerusalem Post, July 30, 2023 “… the AAA and MESA resolutions, for all their self-proclaimed morality, are the death cries of disciplines devoted to self-destruction.”   In a widely predicted move, the American Anthropological Association (AAA) has now joined the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) in adopting a boycott of Israeli universities. It represents a […]

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Ethnic Studies Group Is Teaching Anti-Israel Hatred; Some School Districts Are Saying Yes

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Max Samarov Algemeiner, July 19, 2023 “When Jews raised concerns and asked to be included as well, the districtresponded that, “Jewish Studies and Israeli Studies are not part of the Ethnic Studies discipline.”   In June 2023, the Hayward Unified School District (HUSD) in Northern California signed a contract worth over $90,000, with a group called the Liberated […]

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Why Would Hasidic Parents Send Their Kids to Failing Schools?

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Frieda Vizel Tablet, July 17, 2023 “It is an irony of the current debate that liberals who believe in strong social safety nets, who would balk at the assertion that a person should be judged by their wealth or career attainment, and who once celebrated the maxim made famous by Hillary Clinton, ‘It takes a […]

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Daily Briefing: WHAT’S WITH ROBERT MALLEY?

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IRAN’S TAKE Exclusive: Inside the Downfall of Rob Malley:  Sadra Torabi, Tehran Times, July 10, 2023 — On June 30th, Matthew Miller, the spokesperson for the US State Department, somewhat reduced the ambiguity and announced via email to Reuters that Robert Malley had taken “a leave of absence” and that his duties would be temporarily […]

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Analysis:  Where Is Biden’s Iran Envoy?

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Zvi Bar’el Haaretz, July 17, 2023 “Israeli sources leaked information about American intentions to sign a “mini-deal,” or a limited agreement, with Iran, to replace the full nuclear agreement. And lo, shortly after … comes Iran International, known for its cozy relations with several senior Israeli figures, who reports Malley’s suspension, allegedly for mishandling classified […]

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I’ve Got a Secret: Biden Administration and Xi Regime Give Pattern

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J.E. Dyers The Optimistic Conservative, July 28, 2023 “The same pattern overlays nicely on the Biden administration’s move against Malley.” There’s an interesting tale of two official “disappearings” out there, one involving the U.S. and the other in China. I don’t intend to go in-depth on either one here, partly because doing so would cause […]

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Robert Malley and the Call from the Third World

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Hussein Aboubakr Mansour Emet, July 20, 2023 “Unlike what hot-headed and ill-tempered American conservative populists say, they do not hate America, and they do not work for America’s enemies, but they are merely ambivalent to what we think America represents.” It may seem odd that a single mid-level US government bureaucrat has collected a large […]

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What Happened to Robert Malley?

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Lee Smith Tablet, July 23, 2023 “Malley must have shared something really bad with his Iranian associates because otherwise the Tehran Times account makes no sense.”   In late June, reports started circulating that White House heavy Robert Malley had been suspended from his job in the Joe Biden administration. That was surprising. Before he was pushed […]

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Daily Briefing: OPPENHEIMER HITS THE BIG SCREEN

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COMPLEX VIVID PORTRAIT                            Oppenheimer’ Review: A Man for Our Time:  Manohla Dargis, NY Times, July 19, 2023 — “Oppenheimer,” Christopher Nolan’s staggering film about J. Robert Oppenheimer, the man known as “the father of the atomic bomb,” condenses a titanic shift in […]

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At the Core of ‘Oppenheimer,’ A Debate About How to be Jewish

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PJ Grisar The Jewish News of North California, July 19, 2023 “Nolan frames the biography with two inquisitions: Oppenheimer’s infamous AEC hearing in 1954, which saw him lose his security clearance; and Strauss’ 1959 grilling in the Senate, where he was denied confirmation as Eisenhower’s secretary of commerce — largely due to his treatment of […]

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Here’s How Faithfully Oppenheimer Captures Its Subject’s Real Life

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Megan McCluskey TIME, July 21, 2023 “Antisemitism impacted him throughout his time studying at Harvard, and later, amid the Nazis’ rise to power in Germany, changed the way he engaged with his Jewishness.”   After months of building anticipation, writer-director Christopher Nolan’s new movie Oppenheimer arrived in theaters Friday, kickstarting an opening weekend where it’s expected to collect around $50 […]

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The Ambivalent Destroyer

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David Mikics Tablet, July 25, 2023 “Oppenheimer was too mercurial to ever win the Nobel Prize.”   “I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.” These dreadful words are by now familiar to many. J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the A-bomb, said he thought of this line from the Bhagavad Gita during Trinity, the first atomic […]

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