June 23, 2013

UNRWA, Arabs, and the Non-Refugee Refugees

UNRWA -- the United Nations Relief and Works Agency -- was set up in 1948 to provide financial and material aid to the 700,000 Arabs who fled or were driven from their homes during the 1948-49 war between the newly created state of Israel and its Ara...

June 3, 2013

Eric Hoffer Revisited

In 1968, a year after Israel's stunning victory over the armies of Egypt, Syria, Jordan and Iraq -- which put Israel in control of the Sinai, Judea, Samaria, the Golan, and their populations -- Eric Hoffer, pre-eminent American philosopher and the 19...

September 5, 2010

What Kind of Academic Signs These Anti-Israel Petitions?

A year and a half ago, January 2009, David C. Lloyd, Professor of English at the University of Southern California, wrote a three-page petition concerning U.S. relations with Israel, which he addressed to incoming President Barack Obama. His petition...