I have been wondering for a long time just when and how my academic discipline of sociology was going to hit bottom, to cross over from being merely deeply troubled and cognitively impaired to enter fully into a state of…
New York Times foreign affairs columnist Thomas Friedman writes that he stands “100 percent with Israel against Hamas,” but ultimately blames the Israeli “far-right” for stirring the “boldness” of Iran, Hamas, and Hezbollah. They launched this war now, he writes,…
Writing in The Atlantic, George Packer lectures Israelis to avoid reacting “stupidly” to the war that Hamas (backed by Iran) is waging against them. More than a thousand Israelis (including women, children, and babies) have been killed, and an unknown…
Palestinian Media Watch (PMV) exposes a special kind of duplicity that has infected Middle East politics and has made the emergence of peace take so much longer than it ever needed to. Its method, shared by another group called the…
Last week’s meeting between President Joe Biden and Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas has awakened Palestinians to the fact that they now have a friend in the White House. After refusing Israeli offers to accompany him to Augusta Victoria…
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz recently hosted Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas at his home, marking the first such meeting of Israeli and Palestinian senior officials inside Israel since 2010. Given that Gantz is open to meeting Abbas again,…
Birzeit University in Ramallah has produced some of the Palestinians’ most famous and deadly terrorists, and the school unabashedly praises them. So when Brown University’s Beshara Doumani became the fifth president (and first American) to lead the school, expectations were…
Proof that groupthink reigns supreme in academia came last month as hundreds of academic departments released statements and thousands of individual professors signed open letters “in solidarity with the Palestinian people.” Following 11 days of war between Hamas and Israel,…
The latest round in the war between Islamic terrorists and Israel broke out last Monday with an unprovoked rocket and missile attack against Israel launched by Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip. It is playing out, as these wars always do, with casualties…
