Ideological and religious warfare are forms of the same jihad. Islamic jihadists aim to use people who do not look Middle Eastern to commit atrocities on soft targets in the US in order for them to blend in with the majority. Is Boston the first? Mahatma Gandhi is quoted in the book, Gandhi: The
The EU should use its soft power to remind the Egyptian government of its obligations and that it seeks to maintain good relations, but only if it has a responsible partner The EU’s High Representative, Catherine Ashton, was visiting Cairo when, during the funeral service for four Egyptian Christians who were recently killed, violence
Earlier this week, I was asked to provide news coverage of a speech by ever-controversial blogger and critic of Islam Pamela Geller at the Chabad of Great Neck, for a Long Island-based newspaper. As you might already know, the original venue (the Great Neck Synagogue) yielded to outside pressure and canceled the event, citing security
Americans are resilient. Israelis have shown, unfortunately, that they are as well. But that is not a carte blanche for Obama to go on with business as usual. It came as no surprise that President Obama, upon being notified of the attack, chose not to use the word terror or terrorism in describing what
The Anne Frank Museum is now a place rampant with anti-Semitism. Anne Frank has been sanitized and is now a human being, a girl, and only incidentally, a Jew. Holocaust against Jews? Justin Bieber hopes Anne Frank “would have been a Belieber,” according to a message the teenage pop star wrote in the guestbook
One of Scotland’s councils has just implemented a boycott of Israel after comparing the country to apartheid South Africa. The Clackmannanshire Council declared it would resist all economic and political support for Israel in order to “end suffering in Palestine”. In Scotland, once known as the only European country which has no history of
Last December, a statue of Adolf Hitler praying on his knees, was on display in the former Warsaw Ghetto, where so many Jews were killed or sent to their deaths. The work, "HIM", by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, received a green light from the local Jewish leaders. Poland's chief rabbi, Michael Schudrich, said he was
An article in two parts. For part I, click here. We are familiar with the common claim that it is difficult to imagine the State of Israel having come into existence without the Holocaust. I once mentioned this in a talk I gave on the Holocaust. Afterward, an old man who had lost his
An individual possesses the ability to grasp the short range significance of events and to understand those aspects which affect his own personal life. Yet, even this process takes time. Only after enough time has passed is one able to analyze properly what has befallen him. When a massive, sweeping event occurs - a tragedy
Dear Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un, Maybe the "B-2 Bomber" message President Obama and Defense Secretary Hagel tried to send to you was a little too subtle and something got lost in translation. OK, so, I'll try to make it clearer for you. The B-2 bombers that flew all the way from Whiteman AFB
