Brandeis Center Blog

This afternoon, the Brandeis Center commended the European Sociological Association (ESA)Network 31, after the Network passed the first pro-active anti-boycott resolution by a professional European academic association late last week.

In a politically suspicious expulsion, an Israeli citizen, Rabbi Asher Krichevsky, his wife, and their six children were told they 15 days to leave Russia. His punishment comes after Krichevsky was fined 2,000 rubles, or about $50, for selling kosher wine from the Chabad House without a liquor license. Optimists in the Obama State Department […]

Earlier today, fifteen national organizations urged Chancellor Dirks of the University of California at Berkeley to monitor the behavior of Students for Justice for Palestine (SJP) and other student organizations involved in the so-called September 23 “Day of Action.”

According to a commentary in the “Washington Post,” the right-wing nationalist cauldron in the Russian Federation is boiling over. Perfervid ideas include ethnically cleansing the Ukrainian “idiots” and a tactical nuclear weapon exploded over Warsaw: to show all Europe that NATO is “a paper tiger.” But Vladimir Putin may not have given sufficient weight to […]

No, not U.S. troops but at least 15 Somali jihadis from the Twin Cities, one of whom left behind nine children for taxpayers to support while he pursued his higher calling. No comment from Representative Keith Ellison (Dem-Minn), the chief Congressional apologist and cover up artist for the Minneapolis-Somalia and now Syria terror network.

In Ashkelon, 24 injured, some critically, by a “new missile” attack on an apartment house. Score one for the ayatollahs to whom the Obama Administration is providing c. $10 billion in “sanctions relief.” Clausewitz said that war is an extension of politics by other means. In the Middle East, war is an extension of anti-Semitism […]

Hollywood—once a bastion of pro-Israel support—is now honeycombed with “anti-Zionist,” boycott advocacy front groups like Artists Against Apartheid and Artists Without Borders. It’s nice to announce that the Creative Community For Peace—featuring some prominent personalities like Arnold Scharzenegger, actors Seth Rogan and Sylvester Stallone, comedians Bill Maher and Sarah Silverman, and director Ivan Reitman—have collected […]

Between the end of World War II and the end of the Cold War, many American liberals somehow forgot the reality of radical evil. Mao’s Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution, Gulags in Vietnam and North Korea and to a lesser extent Cuba, punctuated by the Cambodian genocide and later genocides in the Balkans and […]

According to the Prophet, “Thus saith the Lord, ‘let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream’.” (Amos 5:24) The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) is a gutter overflow with the purpose of smearing and delegitimizing Israel. In pursuing this agenda, UNHRC has hit upon a strategy of using Jews, like […]

Opinions differ, and will continue to differ, about what happened, and is happening, in Ferguson, Missouri. However, for an example for how respect for the presumption on innocence, at least in racially-charged cases, has eroded in liberal circles, see Yishai Schwartz, “Convicting Darren Wilson Will Be Basically Impossible,” in the “New Republic” at http://www.newrepublic.com/article/119157/darren-wilsons-conviction-will-be-basically-impossible

For a cogent analysis of the agony without ecstacy of Obama’s Mideast policy, See Walter Russell Mead at http://www.the-american-interest.com/blog/2014/08/16/the-agony-of-obamas-middle-east-policy/

We now learn that ISIS has a human face, beyond the heads its cuts off and gives to seven year-olds to display in its Syrian-Iraqi Caliphate. There are Facebook postings, presumably by jihadi expats from the U.S. and Europe who either didn’t know about or don’t care about Robin Williams’ support for Israel. Instead, they […]

Reports are that President Obama is about to declare victory on or over Iraq’s Mount Sinjar where tens of thousands of Yazidis and other minorities have been stranded in peril of starvation or slaughter. Supposedly, the President’s military advance men have told him that a few symbolic air strikes on exposed ISIS artillery pieces and […]

MP George Galloway, notorious for his love affair (for which some of his services have been well-paid) with both the late Saddam Hussein and the current Iranian regime, recently declared that his district of Bradford should become “an Israel-Free Zone.” According to Galloway: “”We have declared Bradford an Israeli-free zone. We don’t want any Israeli […]