Reaffirming the Ground Rules for the U.S.-Israel Alliance
And a new opportunity for collaboration against Iran.
January 16, 2023
In Revoking the Appointment of a Notorious Anti-Israel Obsessive, a Harvard Dean Stands on Principle
Kenneth Roth and the Kennedy School.
Few individuals have done so much to grant legitimacy to the distorted fantasies of the Jewish state’s enemies than Kenneth Roth, who presided over the transformation of Human-Rights Watch (formerly Helsinki Watch) from an institution that helped to bring down the Warsaw Pact regimes by exposing their abuses, to one that elevates the defamation of Israel above all else. This record may have been a factor in the decision of the Harvard Kennedy School dean, Douglas Elmendorf, to retract an offer of a fellowship to Roth, who recently retired from his position at Human-Rights Watch. The editors of the New York Sun place Elmendorf’s decision in the context of a larger effort to bring high standards to America’s most distinguished school of public policy:
January 16, 2023
A Palestinian Human-Rights Activist Reflects on Two Decades of Mahmoud Abbas’s Rule
“Abbas is the real occupier of our cities and our homeland.”
In Revoking the Appointment of a Notorious Anti-Israel Obsessive, a Harvard Dean Stands on Principle
Kenneth Roth and the Kennedy School.
The Growing Gulf between Religious and Secular
The collapse of the moderate middle.
The Odessa-Born Jew-Turned British Secret Agent Who Might Have Inspired James Bond
Rosenblum, ace of spies.