The year was 2009. I was a guest at a talk show, discussing my newly released book: 72 Virgins. People in the audience called in, referring to me as an Islamophobe. It was the first time I was accused of prejudice against, hatred towards, or irrational fear of Muslims. Those who tried to characterize
For far too many American-Jews today, "Never Again" is just a cliché. But to everybody who is standing here today, people who love Israel, "Never Again" is a call to peaceful action to save the lives of Jewish people. And, we need to act peacefully. We need to act fast. For today, Israel is
The story of one courageous victim whose family, rather than killing her for defiling "family honor", supported her fight for justice. The American government has just gone into the anti-honor-killing "business." Given my extensive academic and legal work documenting and opposing honor killing, I support this venture. I do find it a bit odd
President Shimon Peres may speak about peace while in Jordan, but let's take a clear look at the situation."Peace" is a magnificent word which has been used, abused, and marginalized into a meaningless expression. Here are some of your quotes, M. President: 1. "I will make Assad a peace partner just as I
Tuvia Tenenborn has German youth lining up to buy his book on Germany today. It is about an incurable disease. But he can't find a publisher in the land of the free and the home of the brave. I first met Tuvia Tenenbom, the author of the provocatively titled book, "I Sleep in Hitler’s
We are living through the self-extinction of the civilization that shaped the age we live in. “I am healthy in body and mind, I am filled with love for my wife and children. However, in the evening of my life, facing immense dangers to my French and European homeland, I feel the duty to
Palestinian Arab Christians have chosen to support the side that wants to destroy Christianity. Hating Jews forges a bond between enemies. The movie “The Stones Cry Out” by the Italian filmaker Yasmine Perni “gives a detailed account of the historical, cultural, and political place occupied by Christians in the recent history of the Palestinian
Why shouldn't the sectarian Sunnis of Iraq have their freedom? Obama has to stand for freedom in Iraq and Biden has told him how. "About 800 B.C. the village communities of the Homeric Age, which had been founded mainly upon clan organization, began to give way to larger political units. As the need for defense
“The Jewish religion is under attack in Europe”, declared the Conference of European Rabbis president Pinchas Goldschmidt. Many polls (such as the study on behalf of the German Social Democratic Friedrich Ebert Foundation) bring an iconic number measuring the disaster: 150,000,000 Europeans have a delegitimizing and demonizing view of the State of Israel and its
There are lessons to be learned from the recent fiasco. The Cambridge fiasco is one more battle anti-Zionists will chalk up. They’ve won a few – too many – but never for bigger loot than Professor Stephen Hawkins who got snatched for the academic boycott with nary a shot fired. If a pro-Israel vanguard
