David Bernstein
Lawprof at Scalia Law School, GMU. Check out my books at tinyurl.com/ycyz34ts.
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It’s Time to End America’s Blank Check Military Aid to Israel
Senior Columnist Peter Beinart argues that it’s time for the US to consider putting conditions on how its funding to Israel is used.
Holocaust Revisionism at Williams College
A debate over recognizing a pro-Israel student group reveals ignorance and antisemitism among Williams' students
David Bernstein
Holocaust Revisionism at Williams College reason.com/2019/05/20/hol… via @reason
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No, Israel isn’t a country of privileged and powerful white Europeans
Framing the Mideast conflict in terms of racial and colonial oppression erases the story of my family, who emigrated to Israel from Iraq and Tunisia.
Roundup Weedkiller Litigation
In a series of recent decisions both federal and state courts have allowed the admission of scientif...
Instapundit » Blog Archive » IT’S NOT AN “OPEN AIR CONCENTRATION CAMP” IF YOU CAN’T BLAME ISRAEL: Hamas said to impose restricti…
David Bernstein
So when are the usual suspects going to acknowledge the obvious: that the people of Gaza are hostages of Hamas and its pathological desire to destroy Israel?
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35,000 Palestinians left Gaza in 2018 via Egypt and Turkey – report
Hamas said to impose restrictions after young, educated Gazans exited for 'vacations' through reopened Rafah Crossing to escape and seek better lives in Europe
Anti-Israel bias at Human Rights Watch (Part 1: Omar Shakir)
The long history of anti-Israel bias by Shakir and HRW is a critical consideration for Israel in deciding whether Shakir has a "right" to remain in the country as a human rights worker.
Harvard Betrays a Law Professor — and Itself
Misguided students believe that defending Harvey Weinstein makes Ronald Sullivan unfit to be their dean. Apparently the university agrees.
Rashida Tlaib Has Her History Wrong
The representative’s account of the Arab-Israeli conflict relies on origin myths about the birth of Israel.
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Rashida Tlaib "deployed deliberately imprecise language, misleading her listeners about the early history of the conflict in Palestine and misrepresenting its present and possible future," argues the historian Benny Morris.
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Rashida Tlaib's Lies Remind Us Why Israel Must Exist
The Palestinian tragedy is self-perpetuating. And it is led by people like Rashida Tlaib, who are unable to come to terms with history.
Contestants from 41 countries stroll down orange carpet, as Eurovision kicks off
Participants arrive for contest's opening ceremony in Tel Aviv, with backdrop of recent Gaza rocket fire and boycott calls
David Bernstein
"no contestants pulled out of the competition, despite intense pressure from activists" timesofisrael.com/contestants-fr…
#BDSFAIL
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The Case for National Service is Stronger Now …
Fareed Zakaria very kindly mentions my 1992 book in his argument for national service. But my dirty little secret is that, in the intervening years, I lost enthusiasm for this particular solution t…
Op-Ed: A disgrace in the Valley — Co-sponsoring anti-Semitism at Stanford
I had been under the mercifully mistaken impression that Der Stürmer, the Nazi newspaper edited by Joseph Goebbels, had long ago ceased publication. You can view menacing images from its pages at nearly any Holocaust museum, usually in the rooms...
Ex-CIA Operative Valerie Plame Running for Open New Mexico Congressional Seat
Activist and ex-CIA operative Valerie Plame is running for New Mexico's open 3rd Congressional District seat in 2020, she announced Wednesday.
Jewish cartoonist Eli Valley’s savage comics spark angry anti-Semitism debate
The artist's grotesque black and white caricatures now draw comparisons with Nazi imagery and accusations of anti-Semitism, but he says he's exposing hypocrisy of Jewish leaders
David Bernstein
To @Elivalley Trump and his allies are modern-day Nazis, and their Jewish supporters are "worse-than-kapos." So why does anyone take this doofus seriously?
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Soviet Anti-Zionism and Contemporary Left Antisemitism
For many decades, virulently antisemitic forms of ‘anti-Zionism’ were central to the cold war propaganda of the Communist states. In this powerful essay Izabella Tabarovsky not only lays bare the ...
David Bernstein
"The messaging emanating from today’s far-left anti-Zionist camp is strikingly similar to the messaging of the Soviet anti-Zionist campaigns."
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Read Bernie Sanders' brutally honest mayoral memos: "I don't know who 'I' am"
In the mid-1980s, the Democratic presidential candidate was a mess—and so was his house.
David Bernstein
New campaign slogan? Bernie Sanders: Luftmensch* for president.
motherjones.com/politics/2019/…
*Yiddish: an impractical contemplative person having no definite business or income
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Health funding gap means 1,700 in Gaza may face amputations: U.N.
A lack of health funding in Gaza means 1,700 people shot by Israeli security for...
David Bernstein
Here's an idea: Hamas uses the money its spending to smuggle and build thousands of missiles to kill Israeli civilians on "health funding."
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