by Geoffrey Clarfield On January 15, and well into the morning of the next day, terrorists affiliated with the Somali Jihadi group Al Shabab forced their way into an upscale Nairobi hotel and business centre, killing 21 innocent civilians. Kenyan authorities, with some help from Western allies, ...Read More...

by Geoffrey Clarfield Ethiopians on pilgrimage Had we been there to see it, the young man would have inspected his father’s many camels. He would have made sure their feet were unblemished, that they had had enough fodder, that their packs were properly balanced and that they had drunk deeply ...Read More...

The Canadian government is turning a blind eye to atrocities committed by returning ISIS/ISIL fighters and instead are offering them a get out of jail free card. by Geoffrey Clarfield Yazidis observe the religious new year, Lalish, Iraq, April 19, 2016. Andrea Dicenzo/European Pressphoto Agency A ...Read More...

A petition urging the Canadian government to take action in regards to ISIS returnees in Canada. by Geoffrey Clarfield This week Canadians were stunned to hear that after the near unanimous passing of Motion 103 on Islamophobia in the Canadian parliament last March, the government has decided ...Read More...

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Because the government is sensitive to world opinion, it lets its incarcerated child offenders live until they are 18. Then it executes them as adults by Geoffrey Clarfield Mahboubeh Mofidi's memorial service, Nowshahr, Iran, 2018 On Jan. 30, 2018, a young woman, Mahboubeh Mofidi, was executed ...Read More...

Michael Doran writes in First Things: On matters of foreign policy, Americans are divided into two hidden camps. Not Republicans versus Democrats, nor liberals versus conservatives, nor rival schools of foreign policy you read about in college courses. The divide is primarily religious in nature—or ...Read More...

by Geoffrey Clarfield In George Orwell’s dystopia, written during WWII he imagines a totalitarian future where history is inverted and language is perverted. This is what we now mean by “politically correct speech.” And so we must draw inspiration from someone, who in 1984, took on the false ...Read More...

Opinion from the Economist LAST weekend China stepped from autocracy into dictatorship. That was when Xi Jinping, already the world’s most powerful man, let it be known that he will change China’s constitution so that he can rule as president for as long as he chooses—and conceivably for life. ...Read More...

A report from Jews Down Under: A conference is a great way to meet people interested in what you are interested in, to hear speakers talk about what you are interested in and to have the opportunity to ask questions of those who know more than you do. There are people who come to conferences ...Read More...

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (source: Medium.com)             The anachronism shown. The Phyla and Waves Models used by Semiticists is not very scientific. Note that areal diffusion makes transmission arrows very fuzzy. The only right way to proceed is by PCA, which explain why as ...Read More...

by Geoffrey Clarfield Tom Wolfe’s The Kingdom of Speech is a short book with four themes. The first is that the ethnographic evidence provided by anthropologist and linguist Daniel L. Everett, based on decades of participant observation and a thorough, analytic, experience-based documentation ...Read More...

Ken White writes in National Review Online: At six in the morning, a man is startled awake by an insistent pounding on his front door. He opens it to find armed government agents. One group of them begins to ransack the man’s home. Two others take him outside and put him into the back seat of ...Read More...

Here is a quote: One heroic-cum-tragic exception was Malcolm Caldwell, a communist lecturer at the School of Oriental and African Studies who was such a fan of Pol Pot and his murderous regime that he went over to see it in person. He had a private interview with Pol Pot himself and was murdered ...Read More...

See their website here. IAM supports the universal tradition of academic freedom that is an indispensable characteristic of higher education in Israel. At the same time, it is concerned by the activities of a small group of academics--sometimes described as revisionist historians or post-Zionists, ...Read More...