Georgetown University neglects the fact that a 70-year old Israel has the only growing Christian population in a Middle East that has witnessed a centuries-long decline of Christianity in its birthplace under Islamic sharia oppression. This emerged from a filmed September 12 panel before about 90 listeners that pilloried Israel and praised Islam, co-hosted by […]
Disgraced Cardinal Praised ISNA and “True Islam”
“We know what Islam is and we know what lessons Islam is going to teach all of us,” former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick declared reassuringly on May 31, 2015, at Crystal City, Virginia’s Hyatt Regency Hotel. McCarrick’s comments before an Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) interfaith conference recall how this now disgraced Catholic clergyman led […]
Quaker Event Promotes Blood Libels Against Israel
“This is not prison; this is a genocide,” stated an audience member following August 29 movie screenings concerning the Gaza Strip at the Washington, DC office of the Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL). Typifying the Israel-hating audience of about 25 that filled FCNL’s small Capitol Hill presentation room, this woman’s comments demonstrated how Quakers […]
Israel-Haters Rave over Staged Agitprop
“Zionism is a form of white supremacism,” stated the anti-Israel activist Emily Siegel at Arlington, Virginia’s Central Library for a July 15 screening of an online filmed version of It’s What We Do: A Play about the Occupation. Her slanderous condemnation of Zionism exemplified the rabid Israel-hatred of this play and its post-screening discussion audience […]
New Book Validates Israel’s Just Cause
American policymakers “fail properly to recognize Israel’s virtue, its singular character as a free society amid a hellscape of dictatorships, theocracies and rampaging jihadists,” writes Ayn Rand Institute scholar Elan Journo in his new book. What Justice Demands: America and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict provides a crystal-clear case for why right justifies might in supporting Israel’s […]
Soccer Moms Take On Sharia In New Book
“The best defense is grassroots education,” concludes Valerie L. Greenfeld concerning domestic jihadist dangers in her new book Backyard Jihad: How Parents Can Detect the Invisible Threat of Radicalization. Her primer for Main Street communities contending with Muslims dreaming dangerous dreams of establishing Islamic states in the West raises important issues for the citizens of […]
Professor: Sharia Marriage is No Bed of Roses for Women
Contemporary Islamic apologists such as Georgetown University Professor John Esposito, his protégé Dahlia Mogahed, and political activist Linda Sarsour constantly whitewash sharia as benign and pro-women. In this context, Georgetown University law Professor Lama Abu-Odeh provides a refreshingly critical outlook on sharia and women, as shown by her June 21 discussion of sharia at Washington, […]
Democrat James Zogby’s Jihad Against Israel
Decades-long Democratic National Committee veteran James Zogby condemns the “genocidal implications of Zionism” in his recently republished 1981 book Palestinians: The Invisible Victims. This erroneous, rabid screed against Jewish self-determination raises disturbing questions about how anyone as radical as Zogby can become so prominent within the Democratic Party. Zogby’s book is unsurprising, given that Zionists […]
Apologists on Parade: Profs Whitewash Political Islam
Board chairs and staff of host organizations didn’t always begin conferences by hurling insults at audience members. But it’s an annual ritual for Nader Hashemi, chair of the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy (CSID) and professor of Middle East studies at the University of Denver. For the second straight year, Hashemi used […]
Washington, DC-Area Episcopalians Hate on Israel
Fresh off an anti-Israel film series, Washington, DC-area Episcopalians at St. John’s Norwood in upscale Bethesda, Maryland and elsewhere have once again taken the lead in demonizing Israel by hosting Reverend Naim Ateek. This Palestinian Anglican known for his anti-Semitic outbursts against Israel addressed St. John’s on May 16, before participating in more vitriol the […]