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Islamism Suffers a Setback in Canada

Dexter Van Zile JNS, Aug. 14, 2024 “Speaking before Dattani’s ouster, Milke declared that NCCM’s defense of Dattani showed “the absurd age we are in: Governments and academia will hire, keep and defend antisemites, but will cancel a scholar for writing a book review that pointed out the obvious: Islam has an imperial history, just […]

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The Canadian Terrorist Supporter Who Iran Loves

Jesse Kline National Post, Aug. 21, 2024 “Hamas is not a terrorist organization. Islamic Jihad is not a terrorist organization. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine is not a terrorist organization. Hezbollah is not a terrorist organization,” she told a jubilant crowd of terrorist sympathizers. “These are resistance fighters. These are our heroes.” There are […]

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ANALYSIS: Alleged ISIS Immigrant: A Rare Occurrence or the Tip of the Iceberg?

Noé Chartier Epoch Times, Aug. 17, 2024 “I don’t think they have the resources to do a full background check on everybody that the government was seeking to bring into Canada.” Many questions are left unanswered around the foiled alleged terrorist plot in Toronto covered by a publication ban, especially on how one of the […]

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Daily Briefing: AFTER OCT. 7, SHOULD ISRAEL’S SECURITY CONCEPT CHANGE?

RESILIENCE AND TRUST   Swords of Iron Survey Results – August 2024:  Mora Deitch, Rebecca Meller, Idit Shafran Gittleman and Anat Shapira, INSS, Aug. 21, 2024 — Since the Swords of Iron war outbreak, the Institute for National Security Studies regularly conducts public opinion surveys to examine national resilience and public trust trends. *** Thinking the Thinkable: Israel’s […]

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So Now We’re Not Allowed to Eliminate Terrorists?

Yair Lapid Times of Israel, Aug. 19, 2024    “By what moral code should Israel accept rocket barrages from terrorist organizations and rogue states?”   Twelve innocent children were killed by Hezbollah at a soccer field in northern Israel. The next day I visited the site. Bloodstained bicycles were still strewn on the ground. I […]

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IRGC Founder to ‘Post’: Iran Unable to Sustain Long-Term War with Israel – Exclusive

  Alex Winston Jerusalem Post, Aug. 20, 2024     “Iran is not in a position to fight Israel.  They emphasized that ‘even if we launch an attack, we should immediately consider a ceasefire with international mediators.’”   Iran is in no position to fight a long-term war with Israel and even asked the US […]

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The Long War Phenomenon:  Is a New Security Concept Required After October 7?

Col. (res.) Gur Laish BESA, Aug. 19, 2024    “Throughout its short history, Israel has never been able to completely eliminate any of its enemies.”    But can Israel eliminate Hamas (and Hezbollah)? Would attempting to do so be worth the practical price of the long war it would require? Would Israel’s society, economy, and […]

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THINKING THE THINKABLE: ISRAEL’S ANSWER TO IRAN AND THE “LONG WAR” PROBLEM

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  Frederick Krantz Col. (Res.) Gur Laisch’s “The Long War Phenomenon” (BESA Center) is an important piece, offering a window into the strategic thinking of at least one component of Israel’s military intelligence sector. It explains one rationale for recurrent and seemingly defeatist media references of some Israeli military figures who note that Hamas “cannot […]

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Daily Briefing: COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY’S MINOUCHE SHAFIK IS OUT: WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR JEWS?

NO SURPRISE Columbia University Restores Dozens of Pro-Hamas Rioters to Good Standing, New Report Says:  Dion J. Pierre, Algemeiner, Aug. 19, 2024 — Columbia University punished very few of the students who were involved in occupying an administrative building and staging a riot which prompted the university, fearing an outbreak of racial violence, to revoke a Jewish professor’s […]

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The Ideology Behind Campus Protests Is About More Than Israel

Adam Kirsch WSJ, Aug. 16, 2024 “For the academic discipline of settler colonial studies, the goal of learning about settler colonialism in America and elsewhere is not simply to understand it, as a historian would, but to dismantle it.”   This week Minouche Shafik resigned as president of Columbia University, the latest Ivy League leader to become a […]

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Down and Out at Columbia

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Martin Kramer Martin Kramer on the Middle East, Aug. 15, 2024 ” How did Columbia go from “two Palestinians” to a “unique concentration” in just seven years?” The resignation of Minouche Shafik, president of Columbia University, is being hailed as a victory all around. Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), who had called for her resignation back in April, celebrated the […]

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Send in the Clowns

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Liel Leibovitz City Journal, Aug. 16, 2024 “These twin statements, Armstrong’s and Shafik’s, tell the story of Columbia’s decline better than any in-depth analysis ever could.” Earlier this week, Minouche Shafik, Columbia University’s president, unexpectedly resigned her post. You would think that the departure of an Ivy League leader less than three weeks before the start of […]

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