Last Friday was a sad day for freedom of assembly and freedom of speech in America.
The pepper-spraying of a group of nonviolent student demonstrators at UC Davis on Friday appears to have been an example of excessive and unimaginative police work, and might possibly have been abusive. UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi has reportedly assigned …
Republicans will debate tonight, 9pm, EST, with Fox News’ Bret Baier to moderate with input from Chris Wallace and Megyn Kelly.
Apparently FOX News and Google have partnered for the debate so that viewers can weigh in by voting on what questions they want asked. Sounds like that should make for an interesting …
The Sudan Tribune recently reported that Salva Kiir Mayardit, the president of the newly formed nation of South Sudan, told visiting Knesset member Danny Danon that the future South Sudanese embassy in Israel will built in Jerusalem. He also pledged to pay a visit to Israel.
At present, several …
Mithal al-Alusi, human rights leader and former Iraqi Parliamentarian, contacted me last weekend to convey his thoughts about the dire situation for proponents of human rights and liberal values in Iraq. He also urged President Obama to “do something about Iran.”
Alusi was elected to Parliament in 2005 following the murder of …
From The Jewish Standard
by HEATHER ROBINSON
Yitzhak Zahavy is competing this Sunday in a grueling sports event because he can. He can, he says, because three of his comrades gave their lives to save his. He is competing to honor them.
Zahavy, who was born in …
From The Jewish Standard
by HEATHER ROBINSON
Balfour Books, a division of ICON Publishing, was established in 2003 “to educate Christians about what is going on in the Middle East,” and specifically about Israel, according to its publisher, Jim Fletcher. The Evangelical Christian company recently published Alex Grobman’s …
From The Jewish Standard
by HEATHER ROBINSON
Over the past year, as anti-Israel events on campus surged in what one professor characterized as an anti-Israel “drumbeat,” pro-Israel students at Rutgers University refused to sit quietly and be drowned out.
Among those striving to make …
From The Jewish Standard
by HEATHER ROBINSON
Starting this fall, Ramapo College of New Jersey will offer its students a minor in human rights and genocide studies. It will be the first program of its kind in New Jersey’s state college system, according to Michael …
This terrific editorial, which ran last week in The New York Times, should be required reading for anyone who thinks he or she can make peace in the mideast by putting the squeeze on Israel and/or employing high-level diplomacy. I would analogize the latter to attempting to make peace between a wife and her …
Was Turner’s victory a referendum on Obama’s Israel policies?
From Jewish World Review
by HEATHER ROBINSON
Tuesday marked the first Republican victory in nearly one hundred years in New York’s 9th congressional district, a Jewish and Italian stronghold. Republican Robert Turner’s victory in winning the seat encompassing Brooklyn and Queens and formerly held by Anthony Weiner has led many to speculate that …