About 3,000 Students Shirk Duties To Watch Lightning Exchange on Screens September 25, 2007 by Anastasia Gornick, Jacob Schneider, and Laura SchreiberColumbia Daily Spectator As a war of words carried on in Roone Arledge Auditorium on Monday, factions of pro-Israel and anti-war activists shouted across barricades on a block-long stretch of Broadway. On campus, the […]

Mistake to Give Ahmadinejad Platform to Spew Hatred, Israel Says September 25, 2007 Crosswalk.comBy Julie StahlJerusalem Bureau Chief Jerusalem (CNSNews.com) – Giving Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a platform to espouse his hatred and racism is a “mistake” and he should not be given any legitimacy, an Israeli official said on Monday. Ahmadinejad was invited to […]

Iranian President stirs protests, counter-moves at Columbia September 25, 2007 Haaretz.comBy Sandra Cariglio Last update – 15:13 24/09/2007 COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY – Over the past week, the Columbia University campus has been living in a state of marked restlessness in preparation for Monday’s highly controversial scheduled speaking appearance of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Last year, Columbia […]

Columbia University protesters prepare for Iran’s president September 22, 2007 BY MATT SOLARS, KATHLEEN LUCADAMO and NICOLE BODENY DAILY NEWS WRITERS Columbia University students plan mass protests to greet Holocaust-denying Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad when he arrives on campus Monday to give a lecture. Students planning the demonstration on the steps of Low Memorial Library […]

Chemerinsky affair reflects UCI-Jewish conflicts JewishJournal.comBy Tom Tugend, Contributing Editor The on-off-on-again saga of Erwin Chemerinsky’s path to become dean of the UC Irvine law school has held a special resonance for the Southern California Jewish community, where he has been active for more than two decades. Also affected are the already strained relations between […]

Q&A with John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt JewishJournal.com Ron Kampeas, Jewish Telegraphic Agency’s Washington bureau chief, recently sat down with scholars Stephen Walt, international affairs professor at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and John Mearsheimer, political science professor at the University of Chicago, to discuss their controversial new book, “The […]

ZOA, OU concerned at Ramon offer Jewish Telegraphic Agency “Mr. Prime Minister, we cannot state strongly enough our belief that the Government and people of the State of Israel hold Yerushalayim in trust for the Jewish people no matter where they may live, for we all have a share in the holy city,” leaders of […]

Court throws out Jerusalem case Jewish Telegraphic Agency A court said it had no jurisdiction over whether a U.S. citizen born in Jerusalem may have “Israel” listed in his passport as his country of birth. In throwing out a lawsuit brought by Ari and Naomi Zivotofsky, on behalf of their son, Menachem, federal judge Gladys […]

Iran’s Behind All the Hostilities in Iraq The Jewish ExponentBy Rachel Silverman Many have argued that dividing the conflict-ridden Iraqi state into separate Kurdish, Sunni and Shi’ite zones — something akin to a partition plan — could quell the ongoing violence there. But according to Iranian dissident Alireza Jafarzadeh, such a strategy is doomed because […]

Al-Dura: It’s the Controversy That Just Won’t Die – It’s an issue that brings the media directly into the global spotlight Mohammed al-Dura is generally believed to have been shot and killed at Gaza’s Netzarim Junction on Sept. 30, 2000, though some have claimed that the boy’s death was politically staged for prime-time television.By Brett […]