Tip of the hat to Giulio Meotti for his tongue-in-cheek take on Columbia University ("not just a campus anymore, it has turned into a caliphate") and his editor's choice title ("Yahya Sinwar Is Ready to Enroll at Columbia") with one proviso – Meotti...
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What to call the current conflict between Israel and Hamas? In a war between two nations a hyphenated noun phrase, like the "Spanish-American War" and the "Iran-Iraq War," is the way to go. Even though the terrorist organization that runs the Gaza Strip...
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The 2023-2024 academic year will be remembered for its inept university presidents, antisemitic college deans, fringe left activist professors, and gullible, pro-Hamas students. Collectively and individually, especially at the nation's top schools, they...
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For decades, Lebanese citizens have borne the brunt of Hezbollah hijacking Lebanese political decisions. The situation has worsened dramatically following the October 7th 2023 terrorist attack on Israel for which Hezbollah, as Iran's agent, unilaterally...
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Since 2009, America's counterterrorism infrastructure, which calls itself the "Intelligence Community" and favors the abbreviation "IC," has been radically changed by Barack Obama and Joe Biden appointees. From the FBI's participation in the Trump-Russia...
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By killing Hezbollah's Fuad Shukr in Beirut and Hamas's Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran within a 24-hour span, Israel demonstrated a commitment to total victory over its enemies. But the rest of the world, from the least free nations (China) to the freest...
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"You can't empathize with what you don't know" – that simple psychological truth explains how Israel, the only democracy fighting for its very survival against Jihadi barbarism, can be so easily demonized into an international pariah. When the global...
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In contemporary politics, the phrase "if you throw enough mud, sooner or later it will stick" is often invoked to describe the practice of relentlessly labelling opponents to discredit them. This tactic, used extensively by the political Left, has...
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Forty years ago, on June 25, 1984, the French philosopher Michel Foucault died of AIDS at age 57, leaving behind a mixed legacy of literary and political writing that crossed over into activism. The anniversary of Foucault's death offers a new...
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When the governments of Spain, Norway, and Ireland together announced that they would recognize a state of "Palestine," they assumed a responsibility as patrons to the putative 23rd Arab nation. It was a bold move, but it was all for show. They are out...
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As a Palestinian human rights activist, I find it outrageous and deeply troubling that three European countries have announced that they will recognize a Palestinian state in response to the atrocities committed by the terrorist group Hamas on October 7,...
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I'm a third-generation child of Holocaust survivors. Almost all of my family from my father's side was gassed to death in the Auschwitz gas chambers. Nearly 20 years ago, I visited the death camps where my family perished. There, at the gas chambers in...
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