The shooting occurred on Friday afternoon, leaving insufficient time for Members of Knesset (MKs) to respond before Shabbat. That gave them plenty of time to carefully consider what to write on the face they put before the public. Here is a selection of screenshots from Facebook accounts of a number of MKs, arranged from right…
I wrote this article on October 4, 2015. I still find it amazing to see how some of our MKs chose to react to the horrid rash of knifings and stonings that established this latest wave of terror, one that is still going on now. Let us remember what the public declarations of the following…
Theories of cult induction may best explain much of what we are seeing today in terrorist groups, better than theories regarding marginalization and poverty. Understanding Islamist terrorist cult recruitment and induction can provide us with tools for helping young people resist the charms of the cult leader. First, let us look at some of the…
Congratulations are in order for An-Najah National University (ANU) of Nablus. It heads the list of the top 12 “Palestinian” universities, ranked by an international site that ranks over 11,000 institutions in more than 200 countries. If the supporters of academic boycott against Israel want to find evidence of the horrid suppressive impact of Israel…
Most researchers studying terrorist recruitment ask how they entice members who are willing to commit horrendous violent crimes in the name of Islam. Political scientist Kim Cragin and colleagues at Rand approach the topic from the opposite perspective – what are the conditions in which youth actually reject recruitment? Of interest to us in Israel…
Why should Obama and Clinton link terrorism and Islam when so many academicians pontificate about how suicide bombings have nothing to do with the religion? Why should anyone think terrorism is related to Islam when those analysts who do connect the two are scorned and condemned for it? It is time pay attention to the…
The NWSA (National Women’s Studies Association), in a statement copied below this article, claims to be part of “a transformative and critical field” that pursue[s] a just world in which all persons can develop to their fullest potential: as feminist scholars, educators, and activists, for example, [they] advance critiques of misogyny, gender violence, settler colonialism,…
The NWSA (National Women’s Studies Association), in a statement copied below this article, claims to be part of “a transformative and critical field” that pursue[s] a just world in which all persons can develop to their fullest potential: as feminist scholars, educators, and activists, for example, [they] advance critiques of misogyny, gender violence, settler colonialism,…
I’m killing myself trying to think how we Israelis can get out of this stupid debacle we are in whereby Arabs are now calling themselves Palestinians in order to get people around the world to march along the streets with fantastic posters on their behalf that say https://twitter.com/BrightonBDS/status/671082956862169088 Masses of concerned right-thinking (meaning left-thinking) people…
I’m killing myself trying to think how we Israelis can get out of this stupid debacle we are in whereby Arabs are now calling themselves Palestinians in order to get people around the world to march along the streets with fantastic posters on their behalf that say https://twitter.com/BrightonBDS/status/671082956862169088 Masses of concerned right-thinking (meaning left-thinking) people…
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