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Academia's Jew haters

May 15, 2012  •  YNet News

In a recent lecture at the University of Oslo, Norwegian sociologist Professor Johan Galtung claimed there was a possible connection between the terrorist responsible for the massacre of youths in Norway last summer and the Mossad. "The Jews control US media, and divert for the sake of Israel," he said. Galtung added that one of the factors behind the anti-Semitic sentiment that led to Auschwitz was the fact that Jews held influential positions in German society. He also recommended reading the infamous Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

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Peace process to nowhere

April 29, 2012  •  YNet News

Something has gone horribly wrong with the Palestinian-Israeli peace process, and Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad's recent decision not to meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is only the latest example and reason for the widespread pessimism about its trajectory.

The so-called Middle East conflict has grown more rather than less intractable since Palestinian and Israeli leaders began their efforts to resolve it through negotiations. Indeed, almost two decades of negotiations have failed to convince Palestinian and Israeli leaders of a way to share the land and its resources. And in fact the core of the conflict is more about co-existing on the same land than just dividing it.

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BDS and the AFSC

April 24, 2012  •  UPI

What is the "Quakerly way"? Most people have the impression that the Quakers, and their best known organization, the American Friends Service Committee, are devoted above all to pacifism, non-violence and to a non-judgmental approach to resolving conflict.

When it comes to the Arab-Israeli conflict, that impression is wrong.

Quakers have a long involvement in the Middle East. They established missions and schools in the mid-19th century, found few converts, but provided an invaluable educational service to the local populations.

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Response to 'Zionist BDS'

March 25, 2012  •  YNet News

Jewish individuals like Peter Beinart, author of the forthcoming The Crisis of Zionism, fuel the notion that Israel's so-called settlement activity is at the core of the Israeli-Palestinian strife. Furthermore, Beinart questions the very legitimacy of Israel's democracy,

Beinart believes that the answer is "Zionist BDS" against Israeli settlements and all they produce. Like many post-Zionists and revisionists he tries to draw a reality that puts the entire onus on Israel. Such distorted narrative maintains that Israel is largely to blame for the collapse of the Oslo negotiations and subsequent failure to revive them, rather than Arab rejectionism or Yasser Arafat's web of lies to his people, Israel and the US.

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Trapped in a cause

March 21, 2012  •  The Times of Israel

The Middle East Conflict has imposed heavy burdens on both Arabs and Israelis, but in a year when violence has erupted across many lands in this region for other reasons, it might be time not only to audit the costs of this protracted dispute but also to survey who actually pays and in what currency. It makes sense to begin with the Palestinians and Israelis. Both peoples are locked into a conflict that exacts a high price, but Israel has managed to sustain its independence and also to deliver more opportunities and freedoms to its citizens than when the Jewish state was founded in 1948.

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