Fighting anti-Israel week with historical facts

OP-EDS & REVIEWS By Gil Troy, Canadian Jewish News, 2-9-12 As some universities brace for the annual spring round of anti-Israel weeks, which falsely accuse Israel of the great crimes committed by South African apartheid racists, we must put this absurdity in historical perspective. For starters, the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians is a national [...]

Anti-Israel Essay Desecrates Martin Luther King’s Memory but Wins an M.L. King Award

OP-EDS & REVIEWS By Gil Troy, Jerusalem Post, 1-22-12 The anti-Zionist blogosphere is celebrating that a Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Writing Award to a Jewish high school student who fancies himself a hero for freeing himself from the yoke of supporting Israel. Comparing himself – and his people — to King’s Southern redneck [...]

Extremists Try Trumping Centrists in the Republican Primaries — and Israel too

OP-EDS & REVIEWS By Gil Troy, Jerusalem Post, 1-17-12 “I used to feel badly about the Israeli political system,” an Israeli friend of mine recently said. “But after watching this American campaign, I feel much better.” After months of debating, fundraising, positioning, posturing, and polling, America’s Republican candidates are finally facing the voters – with [...]

Thomas Friedman (and others) on Israel – Sloppy but not Self-hating

OP-EDS & REVIEWS By Gil Troy, Jerusalem Post, 12-20-11 This year, 2011, proves that even top journalists can have a bad year. Thomas Friedman started the year with naive reports about the Arab spring as democratic idyll. Friedman turned cranky in mid-year when he witnessed an impressive democratic moment, the ecstatic bipartisan greeting America’s Congress [...]

Obama should be happy not sober on his 50th Birthday

OP-EDS & REVIEWS By Gil Troy, Jerusalem Post, 8-2-11 Barack Obama turns fifty this Thursday, August fourth. Both he and his country appear battered these days, as Obama’s White House recuperates from the bruising debt ceiling showdown and the United States remains stuck combating two wars along with one long-lasting recession. But the progress Obama [...]

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