Analysis

Sunday, May 5th 2024

By Moshe Phillips (Moshe Phillips is a commentator on Jewish affairs whose writings appear regularly in the American and Israeli press.)    This year’s Yom HaZikaron, Israel’s Memorial Day, starting on the evening of May 12, will be unlike any in the Jewish State’s history as it is the first since October 7th. One of […]

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Friday, May 3rd 2024

SHABBAT READING   Rescuing Captives: From Abraham to David:  Prof. Edward L. Greenstein, The Torah.com, Oct. 30, 2023 — A coalition of four kings, from Shinar (Mesopotamia; Gen 10:10; 11:1), Elasar (Alashiya = Cyprus?), Elam (later Persia, Iran), and Asia Minor (based on the name Tudhaliya, which is Hittite), put down a rebellion of five small city-states near […]

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Friday, May 3rd 2024 / Friday, May 3rd 2024

  Alan Baker, Jerusalem Post, Apr. 30, 2024 Anyone familiar with the International Criminal Court (ICC) and with the noble aims and purposes set out in its 1998 Rome Statute, can only balk at the way in which the ICC, intended by its founders to be a completely independent and superior international judicial body, has been simply […]

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Friday, May 3rd 2024 / Friday, May 3rd 2024

 Melanie Phillips, Substack, Apr. 30, 2024 A story has been running for days that the prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague is poised to issue arrest warrants for Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defence Minister Yoav Gallant and Israel Defence Forces chief of Staff Herzi Halevi over alleged war crimes committed […]

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Friday, May 3rd 2024 / Friday, May 3rd 2024

  Col. Richard Kemp, Rafael Bardaji, Ynet News, Apr. 29, 2024 Is the International Criminal Court about to issue arrest warrants for top-level Israeli political and military leaders? That is certainly the view of some legal professionals in the court’s Hague ecosystem — and perhaps as early as this week. Any indictment for international crimes within […]

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Friday, May 3rd 2024 / Friday, May 3rd 2024

 Eugene Kontorovich, WSJ, May 1, 2024 “The ICC has already failed at its goal of promoting global justice. Its only chance of redeeming itself with some constituency is, as with all floundering regimes, to appeal to the oldest lowest common denominator—antisemitism.”   The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court is reportedly considering arrest warrants against Israeli leaders […]

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Thursday, May 2nd 2024

IN THEIR OWN WORDS Columbia University Apartheid Divest: Who We Are:  Heather Chen, Columbia Spectator, Nov. 14, 2023 — Columbia University Apartheid Divest is a coalition of student organizations that see Palestine as the vanguard for our collective liberation. We are a continuation of the Vietnam anti-war movement and the movement to divest from apartheid […]

Analysis

Thursday, May 2nd 2024

Jonathan Chait New York Magazine, Apr. 22, 2024 “ … the groups themselves are very clearly not advocating for “peace.” They are for war. Their objection is not to human suffering but that the wrong humans are suffering.” The anti-Israel demonstrations around Columbia University turned threatening and antisemitic Saturday night, as they have repeatedly across the country. […]

Analysis

Thursday, May 2nd 2024

Miriam Abrams Sapir Journal, Oct. 2023 – Feb. 2024 “I know these people. I go to class with them. The same intersectional feminists who claim to oppose misogyny in all its forms are supporting the mass rape and brutalization of Jewish women. They’d never be caught dead victim-blaming — except when it comes to brutally violated Jewish […]

Analysis

Thursday, May 2nd 2024

Rachel Fish Sapir Journal, Vol. Five Spring 2022 “As the university became ever more focused on identity issues as part of postmodern, post-colonial developments, Jewish faculty steered clear of conversations about Jewish identity or engagement.” Elite universities are sites of seduction. Grassy quads, the vaulted architecture of stone and brick, the library with its oak […]

Analysis

Thursday, May 2nd 2024

Ari Allyn-Feuer Fathom Journal, May 2024 “The main leader of the encampment personally believes that ‘Zionists do not deserve to live,’ and has repeatedly engaged in public threats of violence against ‘Zionists,’ including at a university disciplinary hearing.” If Columbia in fact calls in law enforcement to its campus, and they in fact clear out the Palestine […]

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Wednesday, May 1st 2024 / Wednesday, May 1st 2024

 WORLD’S PROBLEM WATCH:  The Columbia Protests and the Scourge of Elite anti-Semitism:  Spiked, Apr. 26, 2024 — GB News’ Charlie Peters joins Tom Slater and Fraser Myers for the latest episode of the spiked podcast. They discuss the ‘Gaza solidarity’ encampments springing up on US campuses, the collapse of the SNP-Green coalition agreement and whether cancel culture is ruining […]