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IS CHINA AN EXISTENTIAL THREAT TO ISRAEL?

MAKING THE CASE   WATCH:  Webinar | The CCP’s Invasion of Israel: How Xi Set Fire to the Middle East – and Why:  Committee on the Present Dangers of China, May 27, 2024 — Spain, Ireland and Norway formally recognized a non-existent state of “Palestine” today. They thus indulged in the sort of European virtue-signaling that has […]

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Students of Survival: Israel and Taiwan as Partners in Geopolitical Exile

Evan Stubbs Yale Journal of International Affairs, May 23, 2024   “While previously opposed to bilateralism, dramatic upheavals in the geopolitical world order in the early 1970s left both Israel and Taiwan more vulnerable and isolated than ever, creating favorable conditions for pariah state cooperation.”   On December 29, 2021, Taiwan’s vice president (now the […]

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China’s Game in Gaza

Mark Leonard Foreign Affairs, Jan. 8, 2024   “By aligning with majority opinion in such countries as Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, and South Africa, China can present itself as an alternative to what it sees as a warmongering, hegemonic, and hypocritical America.”   Over the past year, as Western diplomats shuttled frantically from one end of […]

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C-802 anti-ship missiles carried in two launchers with four cells each, installed on the F-22P class frigate PNS Zulfiquar. Picture taken during the ship's goodwill visit to Port Klang in Malaysia, August 2009.-Wikipedia

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China’s Support of Hamas: Evidence and Actions

Guermantes Laitari Jewish Policy Center, Spring 2024    “China has not condemned the Hamas (and other terrorist organizations’) terror attack on Israel. In fact, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi described Israel’s response to the terrorist attacks on October 14 as being “beyond the scope of self-defense” and requested Israel to “cease its collective punishment of the […]

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Fickle Friends:  Sino-Israeli Ties Buckle Amid War with Hamas

Simone Lipkind Council on Foreign Relations, Jan. 25, 2024 “Given China’s response to the war in Gaza, Bibi’s public efforts to revive Israel’s relationship with China during periods of strife with the United States now appear short sighted.”   Leading up to Hamas’s October 7 attack, Israel was attempting to manage great power competition much […]

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Daily Briefing: IS HARVARD CONFRONTING ITS SYSTEMIC ANTISEMITISM?

  ALONE The Soil Beneath the Encampments: How Israel and Jews Became the Focus of Hate at Harvard: The Harvard Jewish Alumni Alliance (HJAA), May 2024 – Through conversations with 42 Jewish students, we learned that they had been systematically targeted and excluded not only by other students but also within classrooms and by professors. Every […]

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Harvard University Free Palestine Camp, organized in April-May 2024 in support of the Palestine.- Wikipedia

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The Martyr of Harvard’s Encampment

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Charlie Covit WSJ, May 16, 2024 “Support for Mr. Tettey-Tamaklo belies the protesters’ denials of antisemitism.” Harvard’s anti-Israel protesters created a martyr this past school year. “Reinstate Elom to his proctor position,” read a list of demands first published in November and posted across campus for the rest of the year. “Over 4,000 people have […]

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Harvard Was Unresponsive to Antisemitism, House Committee Finds:

Douglas Belkin WSJ, May 16, 2024 “The report paints a picture of an overwhelmed and indecisive administration, which failed to apply university rules to protesters engaged in antisemitic behavior.”   Harvard University was slow to react to a wave of hostility against Jewish students last fall and ignored recommendations from an advisory group it created to address rising […]

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When Should Harvard Speak Out?

 Jessica McCann, The Harvard Gazette, May 28, 2024 “… we now live in a world of extreme political polarization. And that means both that people tend to react to University statements (again, intact or distorted) in a polarized way, and also put pressure on the University to speak or not speak in polarized ways.”  In […]

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Tales of a Wounded Wildcat: Antisemitism at My Alma Mater

Gil Hoffman Jerusalem Post, June 2, 2024 “Steven Thrasher, whose title at Medill is “chair of social justice in reporting,” shockingly told students at the encampment that “our work is not about objectivity.” When I graduated from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism a quarter century ago, the dean and professors made me feel proud to be […]

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Daily Briefing: TRUMP’S CONVICTION: A DARK DAY FOR U.S. DEMOCRACY

PREPARING TO LOSE FRIENDS I Just Donated $300k to Trump:  Shaun Maquire, X, May 30, 2024 — I just donated $300k to Trump. I’m prepared to lose friends. Here’s why. A Republic? You Can Keep It.:  Mark Steyn, Steyn on America, May 31, 2024 — As everybody but the New Guinea tribesmen who ate Joe Biden’s uncle knows by […]

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Trump’s Conviction Is an Assault on Democracy

Michael Lind Unherd, May 31, 2024 “The partisanship of the Democratic officials in the hush-money case has been just as blatant.” Whatever you think of Donald Trump — and I for one think very little of him — his conviction as a felon for what would ordinarily be a minor misdemeanour by a biased jury is […]

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