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Dec 2, 2024 | 
jpost.com | Alex Joffe |Asaf Romirowsky
Intifada and razzia leave Palestinians trapped in cycles of violence and backlash.
Two Arabic phrases have taken center stage since the Hamas massacres of October 7. The first is intifada – literally throwing off – which has echoed on campuses and on streets worldwide.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
fathomjournal.org | Alex Joffe |Asaf Romirowsky |Jack Omer-Jackaman |David Hirsh
Fathom > November 2024 > Fathom Long Read | Islamophobia and Antisemitism: A False Equivalence Fathom Long Read | Islamophobia and Antisemitism: A False Equivalence tweet share email print Scott Abramson is a historian of the modern Middle East and the senior research officer at the Center for Israel Education. A trend in Western discourse has developed in the past few years, observable in full vigour since 7 October, of presenting Islamophobia as the companion bigotry of antisemitism. Some...
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
nydailynews.com | Asaf Romirowsky |Alex Joffe
The strike and the mob: The International Longshoremen’s Association and its shady leader Harold Daggett
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
tabletmag.com | Alex Joffe
I have a theory that Neolithic farmers occasionally took part in headhunting: the ritual practice of severing and preserving human heads. At various sites in Syria and the Levant, like Jericho, archaeologists found plastered and otherwise decorated skulls. Whereas most scholars believe that the skulls belonged to venerated ancestors, I and a few other archaeologists believe that these were victims of headhunting expeditions—ritualized violence.
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
spme.org | Alex Joffe |Gabby Deutch |Asaf Romirowsky
IntroductionAs the summer ends the landscape for Israel hatred and antisemitism has been reshaped. Thousands of protestors voiced their hatred of Israel on the streets of Chicago during the Democratic National Convention, their students counterparts have begun new campus disruptions, and faculty have seen their personal animosities validated as ‘academic freedom’ as the American Association of University Professors endorsed the concept of boycotts.
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
spectator.org | Alex Joffe |Asaf Romirowsky
On American campuses since October 7th of 2023 Jewish students have been targeted with unprecedented levels of harassment and intimidation. Calls to “globalize the intifada” inside and outside classrooms, encampments where Zionists are barred by thug minders, countless demonstrations where Hamas, Hezbollah, and Houthi flags are waved to cries to “from the river to the sea….
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
spme.org | Alex Joffe |Jason Riley |Andrew Lapin |Moshe Vardi
IntroductionThe sudden withdrawal of President Biden from the Democratic ticket amidst the continued war in Gaza has thrown US support for Israel and for American Jews into new light. The appointment of Vice President Harris as the Democratic candidate put her record and progressive wing of the party under scrutiny. This change of the guard comes the nation faces new street protests by pro-Hamas forces and pressures created by the mendacious ‘International Court of Justice’ ruling against Israel.
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May 31, 2024 | 
spme.org | Alex Joffe |Aaron Bandler
IntroductionThe spring semester has ended with global higher education fundamentally transformed by anti-Israel protests sparked by the Hamas massacres of October 2023. Large numbers of faculty and students have exposed the intensity of their anti-Israel and anti-American biases, while university administrations’ willingness to negotiate concessions have put the industry’s moral and intellectual mediocrity on public display.
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Feb 26, 2024 | 
israelnationalnews.com | Asaf Romirowsky |Alex Joffe
The discovery of a Hamas server farm beneath the United Nations Relief and Relief Agency (UNRWA) 's Gaza headquarters culminates a catastrophic few months for the world's largest welfare organization. Israeli intelligence recently found that at least a dozen UNRWA employees were directly involved in the October 7 massacres, and at least 1,200 had ties to Hamas.
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Feb 25, 2024 | 
nationalinterest.org | Asaf Romirowsky |Alex Joffe
Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on LinkedInSubscribe to RSSPrintTopic: SecurityRegion: Middle EastTags: IsraelPalestineUNRWAHamasGazaUnited NationsThe United Nations Relief and Relief Agency has shown that it cannot be a part of the solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict.
