International Opinion Should Invoke the Fourth Geneva Convention against Iran, Not Israel
Ignoring population transfer where it’s actually occurring.
December 23, 2016
How Orientalism Explains the Arab World and the Failure of the Peace Process
And how Edward Said’s Orientalism gets in the way.
It was once common for anthropologists to categorize certain societies as having “honor-shame” cultures. Among academics, such categorizations, at least when applied to the societies of the Middle East, have become passé if not taboo, thanks to Edward Said’s 1978 work Orientalism, which branded virtually all prior Western scholarship on the Middle East racist and imperialist. As a result of Said’s influence, writes Richard Landes, universities have produced numerous experts who have consistently misdiagnosed the resurgence of radical Islam, the Arab Spring, and above all the Israel-Palestinian conflict:
December 23, 2016
How Orientalism Explains the Arab World and the Failure of the Peace Process
And how Edward Said’s Orientalism gets in the way.
Despite Old Canards, Zionism Isn’t at Odds with Liberalism
To condemn Israel, the New York Times unleashes the philosophers.
The Jerusalem Papyrus and the Problem of Ancient Hebrew Forgeries
Obscure documents aren’t necessary to prove Jews’ connection to their homeland.
Two Great Mystical Moralists of the 18th Century
One from Italy, one from Russia.