Dacid Goldman writes in the Asia Times: As a matter of arithmetic, Iran is flat broke at the prevailing price of hydrocarbons. Under the P5+1 nuclear deal, Iran will recoup somewhere between $55 and $150 billion of frozen assets, depending on whether one believes the Secretary of the US Treasury ...Read More...

From The Tablet: On Monday California Assemblyman Travis Allen (R-Huntington Beach) introduced a bill (AB-1552) that, if adopted, would prohibit state-run government entities from doing business with companies that engage in boycotts with a “person or entity…based on the race, color, religion, gender, ...Read More...

Max Samarov & Amanda Botfeld write in The Tower: Education is important. What shapes our youth shapes the future, and so we need to craft our school curricula carefully. So it is worth carefully deconstructing the troubling new K-12 curriculum, Reframing Israel, produced by Rabbi Laurie Zimmerman. ...Read More...

Matthew J. Franck writes in First Things: Next autumn will mark forty years since I arrived on a college campus as a freshman. I’ve never left the academy since then. I have been student or teacher at many types of institutions: the small liberal-arts college, the “Research I” state university that ...Read More...

H. Sterling Burnett writes: In a letter to members of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), Peter Wood, president of the National Association of Scholars, raises concerns over the fact NAS’s sole candidate for the presidency of the organization is Marcia McNutt, current editor-in-chief of the journal ...Read More...

Walid Shoebat writes: A video shows Canadian children singing a song which celebrates Muhammad’s arrival in Medina after he forced Christians to convert to Islam and beheaded those who refused.  Infowars  The video clip was posted on YouTube one day after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and ...Read More...

Steve Emerson and Pete Hoekstra write in National Review Online: Following an intensive 18-month governmental study, the United Kingdom issued a startling indictment of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB). It described the organization as fiercely anti-democratic, openly supportive of terrorism, dedicated ...Read More...

Yesterday I received a telephone call from my friend, colleague and sometime writing partner, Professor Salim Mansur, with whom I have written op-eds for the Canadian National Post. As a young man, when I looked at newspapers and magazines, I used to automatically assume that all the writers knew ...Read More...

Phyllis Chesler writes in MEF: Last week, the National Women's Studies Association membership voted to boycott Israel. The resolution reads, in part: "As feminist scholars, activists, teachers, and public intellectuals .?.?. we cannot overlook injustice and violence, including sexual and gender-based ...Read More...

Isi Leibler writes: Sensitive to the despicable behavior by much of the world which denied haven to European Jews on the eve of the Holocaust, I react instinctively with compassion when I hear about the plight of refugees. I am personally sensitive to this issue, fortunate as an infant to have been ...Read More...

David L. Phillips writes in Global Research: Allegations range from military cooperation and weapons transfers to logistical support, financial assistance, and the provision of medical services. It is also alleged that Turkey turned a blind eye to ISIS attacks against Kobani. President Recep Tayyip ...Read More...

Adam Kirsch writes in The Tablet: Captivity, the newly translated novel by the Hungarian writer György Spiró, offers a good reminder not to judge a book by its cover. When I first saw this particular cover, with its black background, stark white typography, and surreally floating sculptured bust, ...Read More...

In communities throughout the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, a surprising degree of luxury exists alongside the poverty. This study includes “A Photo Album of Palestinian Luxury in the West Bank,” offering a more complete picture of living standards there. The truth is that alongside the slums ...Read More...

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Peter Wood wrties in the NAS journal: Detroit Public Schools report 93 percent of eighth grade students are not proficient in reading and 96 percent are not proficient in math.  Those are the results of the 2015 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) tests.  NAEP tests are the gold standard ...Read More...