Analysis

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 […]

Isranet Daily Briefing

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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

Isranet Daily Briefing

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 […]

Analysis

Wednesday, May 1st 2024

Howard Levitt Gatestone Institute, Apr. 23, 2024 “Specifically, I’d like to hear from someone who wants a ceasefire/is finding it hard to be pro-Israel right now OR someone who supports the war despite the high cost of civilian life — and how their personal lived experiences inform those views.”   Over the last several years, […]

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

Kat Rosenfield Unherd, Apr. 26, 2024 “You can see what animates them in this moment, and it isn’t the cause.”   This week, amid widespread US campus protests against the war in Gaza, a video emerged of a confrontation on the Columbia quad. A slender young black man in a keffiyeh and a pair of florid pink […]

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

Joanna Williams Spiked, Apr. 25, 2024   “Students have been deluded into thinking that the more extreme their demands for the abolition of Israel, and the more vile their targeting of Jews, the better they show their own virtue. Horrendously, anti-Semitism comes to be seen as a morally virtuous position.”   First it was Columbia, now […]

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

Gary Wexler Jewish Journal, Nov. 18, 2023 “American Jews are sending cans of food and socks to Israel while the Palestinians are conceptualizing bigger and better worldwide actions. We’re still fighting and demonizing one another. Many organizations have not yet woken up that it is no longer business as usual.”   The brilliant Palestinian plan […]