Will the real McCarthy please stand up
By Joel Golovensky, HAARETZ
The Institute for Zionist Strategies, where I proudly serve as founding president, has conducted and sponsored many research papers, one of which (in final draft form ) raised the ire of Haaretz’s editors (“Politruks in academia,” August 17 ). This study on Post-Zionism in academia is a thoroughly researched paper by an academic with a PhD that took many months of diligent research. It demonstrates a severe anti-Zionist bias (euphemistically termed “post-Zionist” ) in almost all sociology departments at Israeli universities.
This scholarly paper, which also examines think tanks, spans 141 pages (not including recommendations ), 105 footnotes and an 11-page bibliography. By all measures, it is an impressive and thoughtful work, whatever the reader’s predisposition or political view. A small part of this extensive work is devoted to an attempt to explain the origins of the bias and tilt.
In the words of Haaretz,...
The Threat to Israeli Liberties from the Israeli Supreme Court
While the left is screaming about the attack on democracy inherent in the anti-boycott law and transparency laws dealing with NGO’s I bet they are silent on this attack on democracy. Is not judicial activism an attack on the rule of law and thus an attack on democracy? Ted Belman
By Steven Plaut, AMERICAN THINKER
Robert Bork, the eminent American law professor from Yale University, once described the Israeli Supreme Court as the worst in the Western world. Israel, Bork wrote, “has set a standard for judicial imperialism that can probably never be surpassed, and, one devoutly hopes, will never be equaled elsewhere.” Bork finds “less and less reason for the Israeli people to bother electing a legislature and executive; the attorney general, with the backing of the Supreme Court, can decide almost everything for them.” To make things worse, judges in Israel, including Supreme Court judges, are chosen by a non-elected panel dominated by other judges, and...
Beck – “count me a Jew and come for me first”
Emotional Highlights in Beck’s Speech to CUFI
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