Analysis
Tuesday, June 21st 2022 / Saturday, July 23rd 2022
Alexander Brotman Geopolitical Monitor, June 15, 2022 “As is the case with all of Russia’s hybrid warfare and disinformation campaigns, Moscow doesn’t have to offer a valid alternative to the EU, it just has to show that the EU is too cumbersome and unruly to be worth the effort.” As most of the world has […]
Joseph Berger NY Times, June 7, 2022 “Describing the separations in her testimony recounted in the Queens College exhibition, Ms. Geulen spoke of how hard it was “to tear a child away from his mother and not tell her where we were taking him, and to have her cry and cry, ‘Tell me at least, […]
Isranet Daily Briefing
Monday, June 20th 2022 / Thursday, June 23rd 2022
The Great Paradox of Swedish Neutrality in the Cold War and Today: Susanne Berger, War on the Rocks, Dec. 28, 2015 — For years now, political observers have struggled to properly assess Russian President Vladimir Putin’s foreign policy aims and ambitions. One large obstacle standing in the way of realistic analysis might be that today’s […]
Monday, June 20th 2022 / Saturday, July 23rd 2022
Owen Greene The Conversation, May 26, 2022 “The 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea and intervention in the eastern Donbas region of Ukraine confirmed that Russia no longer accepted previous agreed national boundaries.” Sweden’s application to join Nato in May marks a major shift away from its longstanding position as a neutral state, stretching back to 1812. Yet […]
Robbie Gramer Foreign Policy, June 7, 2022 “The risk of escalation still remains, so it’s prudent for NATO planners to be thinking about what a potential conflict between NATO and Russia could look like.” During his decade and a half at the Pentagon, Christopher Skaluba read countless reports and assessments on the Russian military and […]
Vazha Tavberidze RFE/RL, May 26, 2022 “… now the Baltic Sea will practically become a lake [belonging to] NATO. Russia has a couple of 100 kilometers of shoreline in the Baltic Sea, which is 98 percent surrounded by NATO countries. So Russia’s ability to have any military operations there will be practically zero.” After decades […]
Adam O’Neal WSJ, June 12, 2022 “In late November, or early December, we heard Russians also saying that NATO must not or should not take any more new members. Well, that led to an odd situation.” Finnish President Sauli Niinistö called Vladimir Putin on May 14 to let him know that Finland was applying to join the […]
Friday, June 17th 2022
Is It Time to Rethink the Relationship Between Jews and Elite Universities?:Irit Tratt, Algemeiner, June 1, 2022 Why I Quit Georgetown:Ilya Shapiro, WSJ, June 6, 2022 Two Ivy League Presidents Are Stepping Down. They Leave Different Legacies on Campus Israel Speech and Antisemitism.:Andrew Lapin and Caleb Guedes-Reed, JTA, June 10, 2022 What Princeton Did to […]
Friday, June 17th 2022 / Saturday, July 23rd 2022
Ilya Shapiro WSJ, June 6, 2022 “The freedom to speak is no freedom at all if it makes an exception for speech someone finds offensive or counter to some nebulous conception of equity.” After a four-month investigation into a tweet, the Georgetown University Law Center reinstated me last Thursday. But after full consideration of the report I […]
Andrew Lapin and Caleb Guedes-Reed JTA, June 10, 2022 “Bollinger also frequently acted on any perceived anti-Israel activity among Columbia students and faculty, and among universities in general.” The presidents of Harvard and Columbia have both announced plans to step down after the next academic year, part of a larger sea change in elite higher […]
Solveig Lucia Gold Common Sense with Bari Weiss, May 26, 2022 “The head of Joshua’s department condemned Joshua’s words in an email to the entire Princeton Classics community and issued an official statement on the department website, without ever saying a word to Joshua himself.” I decided to apply for early admission to Princeton after sitting in […]
Irit Tratt Algemeiner, June 1, 2022 “The Brandeis Center’s 2021 national poll of Jewish fraternity and sorority AEPi and AEPhi found that 50 percent of respondents hide their Jewish identity on campus.” In recent years, antisemitic incidents, including the decision by Ben & Jerry’s to boycott Israel, resulted in kosher supermarkets pulling the ice cream […]
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