Current Events Politically and Diplomatically Speaking Islamist Terrorist Cult Recruitment January 3, 2016 Sherry Oz No Comments 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…
Current Events From Academia Want to Boycott Israel? Ignore This PA University. December 30, 2015 Sherry Oz No Comments 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…
Current Events From Academia Youth Who Resist Joining Terror Organizations December 27, 2015 Sherry Oz No Comments 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…
Current Events From Academia Terrorism And Islam: A Plea For Honesty December 23, 2015 Sherry Oz No Comments 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…
Current Events Jew-Hate Hypocrisy of the NWSA Boycott of Israel December 20, 2015 Sherry Oz No Comments 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 a just world in which…
Current Events Politically and Diplomatically Speaking British Mandate of Israel – OOPS! – Palestine December 18, 2015 Sherry Oz No Comments 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…
Current Events From Academia Academic Boycott of Israel – Quashing the Lies December 16, 2015 Sherry Oz No Comments Academic boycott resolutions voted on by the memberships of the various professional associations have preambles that outline their “problems” with the Jewish state. In this article I present just one…
Current Events From Academia AAUP Opposes Academic Boycott, But Who Cares! December 14, 2015 Sherry Oz No Comments Four professional associations have already voted to boycott Israel academically. The American Association for University Professors (AAUP) does not approve of this form of protest, but does it have any…
Current Events Politically and Diplomatically Speaking The Feisal-Weizmann Agreement Is Not What it Appears December 10, 2015 Sherry Oz No Comments Israel uses the Feisal-Weizmann Agreement of 1919 as evidence that the Arab leadership was at one time favourable toward the establishment of the Jewish state. I recommend that we stop…
Current Events Politically and Diplomatically Speaking Promoting the “Palestinian” Fallacy December 7, 2015 Sherry Oz No Comments When Arab writers and pro-Israeli activists I respect (or respected in the past), such as Fred Maroun, cry out that the Palestinians exist and we cannot say they do not,…