Everyone knows that Europe has grown more anti-Semitic, as Avi Primor writes in the new issue of the Journal of Foreign Affairs. Like many things that everyone “knows,” the facts are different, writes Primor, who’s the former Israeli ambassador to the European Union and now head of the Center for European Studies at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya.
More Anti-Semitism, or Just More Fear?
June 24th, 2008 · 9 Comments · Politics and Policy
Tags: anti-semitism·Belgium·European anti-Semitism·France·Holocaust·Islam
Nonsense Detector: Obama and Islam; Orthodoxy of the Apostate; Hagee and Riskin
June 3rd, 2008 · 2 Comments · Judaism and Religion, Politics and Policy
Gershom Gorenberg
Last month, military historian Edward Luttwack used the pulpit of the New York Times op-ed page to offer a solution to the American right’s burning problem: How can Barack Obama be attacked as both a dangerous Muslim and as the follower of a dangerous black pastor? (As I wrote , this is difficult even [...]
Tags: Add new tag·atheism·fundamentalism·Hagee·Islam·Luttwack·Obama·Riskin
Update: Pipes harms cranks’ image
May 6th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Judaism and Religion, Politics and Policy
At the Wonk Room , Matt Duss discusses attempts by the National Review to prove that Barack Obama might actually be a closet Muslim who (gasp!) studied Quran as a child in Indonesia. And here I thought the unhinged right was busy sliming Obama for his connections to his pastor. What an interesting man that Obama [...]
Tags: Daniel Pipes. Obama·Islam
Swimsuit extras: Pipes Dreams
April 29th, 2008 · 13 Comments · Judaism and Religion, Politics and Policy
Reading your last post , Haim, I suspected that you’ve been hacking into my thoughts. Not about swimsuits per se , but about Daniel Pipes’s curious belief that swimming in mixed company is a democratic duty.
Strangely, I spent a day once with Pipes. A dovish friend of mine with an interest in the Middle East [...]
Tags: Daniel Pipes·fundamentalism·Islam·Islamicism·Judaism·separate swimming·swimsuits
Southern Exposure: Telling Jerusalem Differently
April 22nd, 2008 · 4 Comments · Judaism and Religion, Politics and Policy, Uncategorized
“Ancient Jerusalem Safari” said the sign on the side of the open-sided bus. It was parked this morning in the lot at the end of the promenade that stretches from UN Hill almost to Hebron Road. The promenade is an arc of stone walkways and stairs, of lawns and landscaping with a [...]
Tags: Al-Aqsa·City of David·Elad·Ir David·Islam·Jerusalem·Judaism·Life in South Jerusalem·Muhammad·Old City·Temple Mount
Invitation to understanding: Postdoc fellowship
April 14th, 2008 · No Comments · Politics and Policy
Though this blog isn’t a bulletin board for ads, we occasionally get messages worth passing on. This one is an invitation to scholars to help understanding between Jews and Muslims:
The Jewish-Muslim Initiative at the University of Illinois-Chicago invites applications for a Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Spring semester of 2009. The successful candidate will teach [...]
Tags: Islam·Judaism·post-doctoral fellowship·Reconciliation·UIC