Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) is not pro-Palestine, they are anti-Israel. This may seem like the same thing (pro-Palestine and anti-Israel), but they are not. SJP seems to only rally around Palestinians who are being killed by Israelis. They don’t talk about the abuse of Palestinians in other countries,...
Israeli Reality Check
This is the third draft of “Israeli Reality Check” that I have written and I’m sure that it will still not be current enough when it is posted due to the ever-changing situation in Israel. When I embarked on my journey to Israel in mid-June, I never imagined that I...
Northeastern’s Justified Actions
The freedom of expression is laid out in the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. While this freedom seems to be self explanatory, it is often more convoluted and complex than anyone could ever imagine. However, the biggest problem with the freedom of expression is that many people take...
The Plight of Nigeria’s Christians Ignored By Many
While many people are aware of the Islamic terrorism in countries like Israel, Iran, and Iraq, these same people may not be aware of the same Islamic terrorism taking place in other parts of the world. In Nigeria, much of the Islamic community has, unfortunately, been taken over by terrorist...
An Unlikely Friendship
Every country has at least one ally, if not more, and while at times it seems as though Israel’s only ally is the United States, there is another western country that has held out its hand to Israel. It may seem, to the untrained eye, that Panama has no stake...
The Christian Century and CAMERA
While Israel is the Jewish State, it is home to people of various religions, including Christianity. Despite the existence of a Christian Israeli population, American Christians have a precarious relationship with Israel. While many do support the state’s right to exist and understand its importance to their religion as well as...
Splitting Hairs
On July 4, 2013, Adly Mansour was sworn in as Egypt’s interim president. Since then, the Muslim Brotherhood, an extremely influential Islamic movement, has reported that a senior Arab member of the media has made claims that Mansour is of Jewish decent. According to The Alegemeiner, the person who made the...
George Mason University to Host “Israeli Occupation” Conference?
According to US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation’s (an organization that supports BDS) website, George Mason University’s law school campus in Arlington, VA will host their twelfth Annual National Organizers’ Conference this September. The conference will apparently feature workshops, BDS panels and other similar discussions. At the time of this writing,...