Walk around the NAC Rotunda between club hours, or even 12pm to 2pm on a Monday or Wednesday. There is no shortage of student clubs trying to sell you baked goods or fresh waffles. The pro-Israel student advocates at City College have introduced a Soda Stream. Soda streaming may be...
Oscar-Nominated Film Peddles Anti-Jewish, Anti-Israel Narrative
“Ave Maria” is a film that was nominated at the Oscars for Best Foreign Short at the 2016 Oscars. It is a fictional comedy, directed by Israeli-born Basil Khalil; and it is marred by a not-too-subtle disdain for Judaism. Although filmed in Israel with Israeli actors, it was submitted as...
Could Everything the Media Told You About Israel’s Eroding Democracy Be Wrong?
The putative ‘erosion’ of Israel’s democracy is one of those NGO and media-driven narratives that has developed into something akin to conventional wisdom among the state’s critics – despite the dearth of any real empirical evidence attesting to such a political decline. Such erroneous predictions, amplified within both the Israeli and British far-left, sometimes go...
Sequencing the Peace Process
This past winter break, I was able to see with my own eyes the various components of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. I was able to get a firsthand account of many of the things that both sides must strive for in order to achieve peace. As I drove through the West...