Officials at the University of California, Santa Barbara have closed the books on an investigation against sociology professor William Robinson. Robinson was accused of academic misconduct when he sent an email to students in his “Sociology of Globalization” class, comparing Israel to Nazi Germany. (Details here.) Two students complained, and pro-Israel organizations […]

      Will fighting Palestinian incitement be a focus of U.S. peace efforts? By Eric Fingerhut · June 9, 2009 WASHINGTON (JTA) — Lost in the hoopla over the U.S. demands for an Israeli settlement freeze has been the Obama administration’s stepped-up emphasis on the issue of Palestinian incitement. While it is unclear now […]

        Clinton to PM: No more settlement construction May. 20, 2009Herb Keinon and Hilary Leila Kreiger , THE JERUSALEM POST   Sharp differences emerged between the US and Israel over the settlement issue on Wednesday – one day after Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu concluded his first official visit to the White House […]

        The Advocate By Herb Denenberg, The Bulletin Monday, May 18, 2009     Answer these questions and then prepare to learn that logic, reason, decency and rationality has departed from those who now claim to be peacemakers:Should nation A grant statehood to a group (we’ll call it group Z) dedicated to […]

            May 14, 2009   Will Obama’s Justice Department Prosecute Abbas for Murder? By Edward Olshaker   Now that President Obama has opened the door to prosecuting Bush administration officials for legal opinions allowing waterboarding of al Qaeda leaders, it would be monumentally ironic and unjust if the door were […]

        Thursday, May 14, 2009 Dershowitz rightly rebuts the false linkage between dealing with the Iranian nuclear threat and the Palestinian war on Israel, but he wrongly states that “most Israelis and American supporters of Israel” favor creating a Palestinian state (“Blaming Israel,” PostScript, May 10). A January 2009 poll found that […]

        Note to the Obama Administration: Make Palestinians Accountable   May 14, 2009   Morton A. Klein   Next week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet in Washington with President Barack Obama. Israel and the United States remain far apart on many issues. Obama wants Israel to agree to establishing a […]

        An Illusion Built On Sand By: Morton A. Klein Date: Wednesday, May 13 2009 Today, under the Obama administration – as yesterday under the Bush administration – U.S. policy toward the Arab war on Israel is largely based on the notion that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and his Fatah faction […]

          Denounce Muslim group, UC Irvine chancellor urged   May 12, 2009 NEW YORK (JTA) — Nearly 2,700 people have signed an online petition encouraging a California university chancellor to publicly condemn an annual Muslim student event. The document urges University of California, Irvine’s Michael Drake to denounce the Muslim Student Union’s “Israel: The Politics […]

        Davis Elementary School Map Excludes Israel Susan B. Tuchman, Esq.  New York   May 11th 2009   Your readers should know the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) and many others are troubled a factually inaccurate map of the Middle East that was posted at Pioneer Elementary School’s 4th Annual International Heritage […]