CIJR | Canadian Institute for Jewish Research
L'institut Canadien de Recherches sur le Judaisme

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THE WAR IN IRAQ— THROUGH THE EYES OF THE BEHOLDER…

    RUMSFELD’S ‘SLICE OF HISTORY’ Kimberly Strassel Wall Street Journal, February 8, 2011   “I’d read other folks’ books about things I’d been involved in…and I’d think, My goodness, that’s not my perspective,” chuckles former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in [our] interview.… “I remember talking to [former Secretary of State] George Shultz and […]

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TWITTER, FACEBOOK, & JOURNALISTS ABOUND… BUT IS THE MEDIA’S MESSAGE AUTHENTIC?

    THE REALITY OF REVOLUTION David Rieff New Republic, February 14, 2011   In both the euphoria and the apprehension that have accompanied the popular uprisings in the Arab Middle East…there has been an avalanche of the usual cyber-utopian techno-babble about the emancipatory potential of the Bluetooth devices and Twitter feeds for which authoritarian […]

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HANDLING IRAN’S DRIVE TO NUCLEAR STATUS: “I WON’T LET IRAN GET NUKES”—ROMNEY

Yesterday, the UN’s nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, released it most damning account to date of Iran’s continued pursuit of nuclear weapons. According to the report, “The Agency has serious concerns regarding possible military dimensions to Iran’s nuclear programme” and that credible information “indicates that Iran has carried out activities relevant to the […]

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U.S. “FOLLY” AND THE LEGITIMACY OF “SETTLEMENTS”

      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 […]

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GADHAFI, THE UN & THE U.S.: TRAGEDY, AND FAILURES, IN THE DESERT

      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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WHAT THEY DID, AND WHAT WE MUST REMEMBER

    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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WEDNESDAY’S “NEWS IN REVIEW” ROUND-UP— SPECIAL KRISTALLNACHT EDITION

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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LIBYA AND THE UN: ‘TYRANT’S LAST REFUGE,’ OR ‘RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT?”

      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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THE WORLD’S BLIND EYE…

      ‘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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THE ARAB REVOLUTION: DESTINATION ‘FREEDOM’, OR A LONG & WINDING ROAD TO TEHRAN?

      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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TRUTH & FALSEHOOD: FROM RABIN’S LEGACY TO “JERUSALEM, ISRAEL”, TO MCGILL U. IN CANADA

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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COMBATTING THE DELEGITIMATION OF ISRAEL, VI

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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