The Palestinians and the Holocaust
In the past few weeks, several reports highlighted the vitriolic backlash that followed a visit by a group of Palestinian students to Auschwitz at the end of March. The controversial visit – apparently...
View ArticleD-Day and the Nazi legacy in the Arab world [updated]
In the wake of the recent commemorations of the 70th anniversary of the historic assault on Nazi-occupied France, the well-respected Arab analyst and commentator Hussein Ibish posted a tweet suggesting...
View ArticleQuote of the day: Obama’s kumbaya doctrine
“Obama wants ‘no victor/no vanquished‘ in Iraq, in Syria, in Gaza. He likes inclusive, power-sharing, unity governments like Fatah-Hamas and Sunni-Shia-Kurd. Why not start on Capitol Hill? Obama,...
View ArticleUnilateral empathy
[First published on July 25 at my JPost blog.] TV screens, newspapers around the world and the social media are full of images and stories highlighting the suffering of Gaza’s population during the...
View ArticleThe Israel-hater’s Islamic State
What do Nazi Germany, Apartheid South Africa and the Islamic State have in common? For Israel-haters, it’s an easy question: all three are regarded as utterly evil and therefore, they provide a perfect...
View ArticleAnti-Israel activists react to Charlie Hebdo massacre
When you have studied the output of anti-Israel activists for as long as I have, you know not only that anti-Zionism is usually just a flimsy façade for antisemitism, but also that the hypocrisy and...
View ArticleThe not so progressive Palestinian cause
It seems that most people who support “pro-Palestinian” activism on campus would regard themselves as politically progressive. But there is arguably a lot about the “Palestinian cause” that is not at...
View ArticleUnveiled: The nun, the hijabi, and Zionist supremacism
I didn’t quite trust my eyes: while browsing the output of anti-Israel activists on Twitter, I came across a tweet shared and “liked” by hundreds of users (and re-tweeted by “progressive” anti-Israel...
View ArticleRemember “Global Mufti” Qaradawi when comparing Jewish and Muslim refugees
Nobody can know how the Jews who were murdered in the Holocaust would feel about the now so fashionable use of their despair and suffering for the benefit of today’s mostly Muslim refugees. I have...
View ArticleWhy Jamal Khashoggi’s Islamism matters
Would Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul be any less horrific if it were more widely acknowledged that he was indeed an Islamist? It seems that’s how a lot of people...
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