When the Henry Jackson Society (HJS) on February 4, 2014 issued a monograph, A Guide to Refuting Jihadism: Critiquing radical Islamist claims to theological authenticity (HJS Jihadism Guide) I shared it with a colleague, Clare Lopez. I posed a question to her whether given the HJS authors and Muslim commentators, this effort was tantamount to Da’wa, especially given an endorsement […]
“Why don’t peace loving Muslims publicly condemn Muslims killing Muslims, and “where is the same moral outrage by peace-loving Muslims when Jews are killed merely because we are Jews?” TO: Dr. Frank, Chairman of the Editorial Board , The Nashville Jewish Observer. Dr. Frank Boehm, knowing of your concerns, we can appreciate your unease about […]
The Hon. Geert Wilders of the Dutch Freedom Party (PVV) is serious about the Netherlands leaving the bureaucratic morass of the EU. That would include returning to the Guilder instead of the Euro as the currency. Yesterday, he held an important news conference at The Hague and released the findings of an assessment of what […]
Asylum in the US was the political topic de jour in Washington today given a Congressional immigration report and publication of change in Administration rules. The Washington Times (WT) published an exclusive report on government revelations of massive fraud in asylum applications, “Audit finds asylum system rife with fraud; approval laws broken with surge of immigrants”. The Obama […]
Today’s Wall Street Journal (WSJ) had a front page story that raises question of the vulnerability of our national power grid to terrorist attack given an incident that occurred in Silicon Valley in April 2013. It is only now surfacing in the national media, “Assault on Power Grid Raises Alarms”. In the early morning of April 16, […]
Can you have a one party tyranny in a parliamentary system, especially one in which you have competing Islamist parties? The answer maybe a decided yes, when it comes to Turkey. The actions over the past few months, bespeak of the Jeffersonian definition, “Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal […]
In September 2006 I attended a lecture at the Davenport residential college at Yale University given by Michel Gurfinkiel. Gurfinkiel is the founder of the conservative Jean Jacques Rousseau Institute in Paris. He is a governor of Consistoire, the National Union of French Synagogues, and a member of the board the political committee of Crif-Conseil Représentatif des Institutions juives […]
“What a Gal” was the tagline in an email sent me earlier today by Dr. William Firshein, Emeritus Professor of Microbiology at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. Brooklyn raised Bill “Velvi” Firshein is an unreconstructed Zionist whom I got to know in my activist days in the nutmeg state. We maintain a daily stream of conversation […]
Last Sunday upwards of 50,000 engaged in the “Day of Anger” mass rally in Paris with groups shouting anti-Semitic and Holocaust denial slogans; “Jews, France does not belong to you” and “Faurrison is right”and “the Holocaust was a Hoax”. The more vocal protesters were supporters of anti-Semitic comedian, Dieudonne M’Bala M’Bala and followers of French Holocaust denier, Robert Faurrison. France passed a […]
Like many Americans and Israelis I watched expectantly President Obama’s State of the Union Address (SOTUS) before a joint session of Congress crammed into the House Chamber. I was looking for a reaction from the Congressional audience on the issue of the P5+1 agreement implemented on January 20th. Iran’s President Rouhani had basically told the P5+1 in a […]
After doing a program last Sunday with chaver Dr. Charles Jacobs of Americans for Peace and Tolerance on Lisa Benson’s National Security Matters program about Jewish Myopia towards Islam, I was forwarded this notification by a noted theologian, scholar, author, former university president and ordained Conservative rabbi, Dr. Richard L. Rubenstein. Dr. Rubenstein is the […]
The Jerusalem Post published an article with a comment allegedly attributable to an Obama White House senior official that has caught the ire of American Jews and Israelis, “US perceives Israel as encouraging anti-Obama backlash among Jews”. The JP article noted: A US official close to President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry said both men […]
On Monday there was an expose of the well regarded father of Ms. Samar Ali an accomplished American Muslim appointee of Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam. The expose published in Frontpage Magazine concerned Samar’s father, Dr. Subhi Ali, an esteemed member of the local and state medical community, who practices in Waverly,Tennessee, “Samar Ali: Her Father’s Organization Wants to […]
Pinhas Inbari published this timely Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (JCPA) brief on the issues and dramatis personae at the opening round of the Geneva II talks in Montreux, Switzerland that began today. We consider insightful Inbari’s analysis of the roiling seemingly intractable, inconclusive civil war in Syria now in its 35 month. Israel is concerned about […]
The late Boston Marathon Bomber, Tamerlan Tsarnaev made contact with Jihadists in Dagestan during a six month sojourn there in 2012. Dagestan is less than 1000 miles from the Russian Olympics site in Sochi. The question arises as to whether he visited Sochi in the company of Jihadists? That is a concern facing Members of the US […]