Another University of California, Irvine (UCI) week of hate against the Jewish state of Israel has wrapped up, and I would like to add a few post-mortem thoughts. Several of my friends have remarked that the steam seems to have gone out of the Muslim Student Union’s (MSU) Israel Apartheid, Continue Reading »

In the battle to make the campus environment more positive regarding Israel —particularly in the wake of another year of countering the lies of the tired “apartheid week” trope — perhaps nothing is more elusive or frustrating than trying to place the activity of both Israel supporters and Israel detractors Continue Reading »

To get just a glimpse of the dementia that has crippled the cognitive functioning of what was once the western world’s brave and lively tradition of intellectual dissent, feminist solidarity and progressive internationalism, all you need to do is look in on any one of the dozens of vanity projects Continue Reading »

Statement by Minister Jason Kenney Condemning Israel Apartheid Week Ottawa, March 6, 2012- The Honourable Jason Kenney, Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism, issued the following statement on ‘Israel Apartheid Week’: Like many Canadians I am concerned with the rise of anti-Israel activities on campuses across Canada, culminating in the Continue Reading »

This week, “Israeli Apartheid Week” (IAW) takes place on campuses in Canada and elsewhere. As happens every year, a small group of marginal activists hold events designed to slander Israel as a racist and fundamentally illegitimate state. For students and faculty who support Israel – including both Jews and non-Jews Continue Reading »

IAW activists hate Israel more than they hate oppression itself March is upon us, which means the Oscars have been awarded, and that other harbinger of spring is around the corner: Israeli Apartheid Week. Ordinarily, both events are masterpieces of predictability, with the Academy Awards ushering the usual suspects to the podium Continue Reading »

Why are anti-Israel agitators supporting terror? In a video promoting the 2012 “Israel Apartheid Week,” anti-Israel agitators seem to suggest that terror (when it relates to killing Israelis) isn’t really terror after all.  Instead, they call it “resistance.” You be the judge…     Continue Reading »

Seeming to give credence to Orwell’s observation that “some ideas are so stupid that only an intellectual could believe them,” Harvard’s Kennedy School will be hosting a student-run conference in early March called “Israel/Palestine and the One-State Solution,” yet another example of how purported scholarship about the Middle East is Continue Reading »

In Syria, the Assad regime continues to rain artillery on rebel positions in the city of Homs, killing journalists and innocent civilians alike. Iran’s mullahs are set to execute a Canadian citizen for the crime of operating a website they don’t like. The new Libyan regime is torturing Gaddafi loyalists. Continue Reading »

Op-ed: Israel Apartheid Week agitators could not care less about promoting Mideast peace Anti-Israel hatred on campus crests each year during an event called “Israel Apartheid Week.” With this ominous name and programs that thrive on ignorance and blind disregard for the facts, tens of thousands of college students are Continue Reading »