Tag Archives: Arabs

Israel’s Egyptian teachers

Recent events in Egypt have already provided Israelis with a number of invaluable lessons. The first was right there in the Bible the whole time (Prov 27:24 – nice play on words in Hebrew, by the way: ‘h[o]sn[i] is not … Continue reading

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Follow the money

Did you see the Washington Institute for Near East Policy book prizes for this year? And the winners are: The 2010 Washington Institute Book Prize recipients were From Empathy to Denial: Arab Responses to the Holocaust by Meir Litvak and … Continue reading

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Smear campaign targets pro-Palestinian Brooklyn College professor; alum suspends ‘significant bequest’

A campaign reminiscent of past academic battles over Israel is afoot, this time targeting Brooklyn College professor Moustafa Bayoumi, who edited the newly released book titled Midnight on the Mavi Marmara: The Attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla and How … Continue reading

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